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In recent years the role of preventive archaeological investigations - and consequently that of archaeologists -in territorial and urban transformation became more and more important; On the other hand, the time allocated to archaeological investigation is often severely compressed: so, it is essential to exercise targeted and effective action and, even more so, to have in-depth knowledge of the context on which the project impacts. The National Geoportal for Archaeology is a useful tool, making archaeological data available for consultation and free reuse. Its usefulness is growing every day, thanks to recent provisions that provide for the use of the GNA as a standard for the delivery of minimum data for all archaeological investigations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Open LOD platform based on HPC capabilities for Integrated Administration and Control System of Common Agrarian Policy (Open IACS) is an EU funded project (4.5 MEur) fostering the administrative data reuse in the context of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and granting open access to farmers, policy makers and third parties. Data from European paying agencies for agriculture will be harmonised, and a network of Linked Open Data will be developed. An interoperable system of EU High Performance Computing Centres will provide a platform for demonstrating different use case scenarios (e.g. applications for computing CAP performance indicators, climate change indicators and integration between environmental and agricultural data).

In Italy, AgID (Agency for Digital Italy) is in charge of managing the National Open Data Portal (dati.gov.it) and the National Catalogue for Spatial Data (RNDT, geodati.gov.it). Data discoverability is one of the main tasks, next to availability and interoperability, that public policy makers and implementers should take into due consideration in order to foster access, use and re-use of public sector information (PSI), particularly in case of open data.

Open LOD platform based on HPC capabilities for Integrated Administration and Control System of Common Agrarian Policy (Open IACS) is an EU funded project (4.5 MEur) fostering the administrative data reuse in the context of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and granting open access to farmers, policy makers and third parties. Data from European paying agencies for agriculture will be harmonised, and a network of Linked Open Data will be developed. An interoperable system of EU High Performance Computing Centres will provide a platform for demonstrating different use case scenarios (e.g. applications for computing CAP performance indicators, climate change indicators and integration between environmental and agricultural data). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The new national IdroGEO web Platform allows navigation, social sharing and download of data, maps, reports of the Italian Landslide Inventory, national hazard maps and risk indicators. It is a tool for communication and dissemination of information, to support decisions in risk mitigation policies, land use planning, preliminary design of infrastructures, prioritization of mitigation measures, management of civil protection emergencies and environmental impact assessment. The platform is designed for ease of use and universal access on multiple devices (smartphones, tablets, desktops) using open standards and libraries and is release as open source software. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the GIS solution presented in the Environmental and Urban Regeneration session of the last ESRI Conference, as an activity carried out by the WARREDOC research center on GIS / open data science.

In Italy, AgID (Agency for Digital Italy) is in charge of managing the National Open Data Portal (dati. gov.it) and the National Catalogue for Spatial Data (RNDT, geodati. gov.it). Data discoverability is one of the main tasks, next to availability and interoperability, that public policy makers and implementers should take into due consideration in order to foster access, use and re-use of public sector information (PSI), particularly in case of open data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The important role of open data in emergencies During emergencies, the geographic information plays a very important and delicate role becoming the main tool to understand what happened and to take decisions. The data therefore will play a crucial role. The availability of data as soon as possible, with the guarantee that they are correct, is a non-trivial aspect.

This research is an opportunity to discuss how well investments in the development of surveying and mapping, through programmes such as GMES, may translate into operational, useful and relevant tools for environment professionals in the territory. Environmental analysis will be given the floor to provide the feedback on the experience with geomatic applications, and their needs under a pluri-disciplinary approach. The suitability of existing applications will be analyzed, as well as the efficiency of current support mechanisms for regions wishing to take up innovative applications and open data for sustainable management, heritage conservation and e.Education.The interdisciplinary research will analyze the following topics: territorial planning, environmental impact assessment, cultural heritage conservation, etc. from regional, national, European and International Strategies. This is a work in progress.

Public, freely available, searchable and updated datasets might support citizens, professionals and analysts in understanding several aspect of the life: from demographics trends of a nation to renewable energy potential of specific areas. The focus of the research has been to make a portrait on how territorial data are distributed in Italy by regional geoportals. The developed platform would like to enable stakeholders to discuss the assessment and to enhance the evaluation framework in a collaborative and web-based way.

Gli Open Data in Italia decollarono nel 2011 con un forte impulso iniziale mostrando il loro picco nel 2013. Nonostante una legge nazionale del 2012 che ne decreta l’applicazione, sono ancora tanti gli enti pubblici che oppongono resistenza. Inoltre la pubblicazione ed il riuso dei dataset aperti hanno evidenziato la scarsa omogeneità delle strutture e dei modelli dei dati, l’inadeguato ritmo di aggiornamento, l’uso di terminologie e vocabolari diversi. The opening of the geographical data in Italian took off in 2011 with an initial strong impulse showing its peak in 2013. But, despite a national law of 2012 which decree the application of geodata, there are still many public agencies that resist. In addition, the publication and reuse of open datasets have highlighted the lack of uniformity of the structures and data models, the inadequate pace of renovation, the use of different terminologies and vocabularies.

Il Comune di Cesena svolge dal 2005 una georeferenziazione degli incidenti stradali sui propri territori, raccog liendo una mole di dati che saranno pubblicati su un portale accessibile liberamente. Scopo del portale è informare i cittadini rispetto ai luog hi ad elevato tasso di incidentalità, alla trasparenza dell’ente rispetto agli interventi di sicurezza stradale e alle azioni di controllo nei period i critici. The Municipality of Cesena held since 2005, a georeferencing of road accidents of its territory. Since January 2015 these data will be published on the new open data portal of the City realized with technology StatPortal Open Data. By acting as "data visualization" these open geo data will be accessible via the web with maps, charts and graphs with multiple benefits, from increased knowledge of citizens compared to places with a high accident rate to the transparency of the institution from the measures road safety and control actions during critical periods.

For fifteen years now the Italian community of GIS come across in the context of Esri User Conference. Held in Rome at the Auditorium del Massimo on 9 and 10 April, the conference was an opportunity to take stock of the situation in the field of Geographic Information Systems. More than 1500 people from all over Italy and other European countries were present in Rome; 150 works were submitted, 10technology workshops, 7 training courses-videos, 14 sessions aimed at users. The organization has been able to renew the offer of the conference, proposing important changes in the program and a dynamic management of the plenary session, an important stage useful to perceive the dynamics of change that currently cross the GIS industry.

In the last few years, the Open Data movement has made a significant impact on the IT world by bringing the att ention to an unexploited value represented by the tremendous amount of data that was kept hidden behind the gates of the existing infrastructures, both in public administrations and in private companies. This value can be declined in many ways depending on the perspective of the observer since unprecedented possibilities to correlate different sources of data to mine hidden trends and patt erns, can all at a sudden provide innovative ways to evaluate and monitor events and real life situation. After the initial period of the widespread adoption of the Open Data principles, we are now experimenting a situation where the amount of data available as Open Data is becoming overwhelming as such the need for some kind of coordination effort between different Open Data infrastructures is needed in order to make the data easier to browse and to exploit. This is the goal of the Open Data Network initiative. The Open Data Network initiative aim at bringing together a certain number of Italian Public Administration with the goal of creating a standard infrastructure based on Open Source components suitable for the dissemination of data as Open Data. Moreover it aims at creating a network between each partner's node in order to ease the life of the end user as he will be allowed to access a central hub where all the information will be harvested, rather than having to deal with each single partner's infrastructure.

Public, freely available, searchable and updated datasets might support citizens, professionals and analysts in understanding several aspect of the life: from demographics trends of a nation to renewable energy potential of specific areas. The focus of the research has been to make a portrait on how territorial data are distributed in Italy by regional geoportals. The developed platform would like to enable stakeholders to discuss the assessment and to enhance the evaluation framework in a collaborative and web-based way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

G4MoRe, Gter-for Mountain Rescue, è un tool interamente sviluppato con prodotti Open Source e pensato come supporto alle attività di ricerca dispersi in ambiente montano, prodotto e supportato da Gter srl. G4MoRe, Gter-for Mountain Rescue, is a tool developed entirely with Open Source products and designed as support to research activitiesof missing people in the mountains, manufactured and supported by Gter srl.

Una soluzione riusabile per pubblicare i dati cartografici ed i loro metadati neiportali dei dati liberi sotto forma di Linked Open Data. Towards the Linked Open Data Geographic A reusable solution to publish map data and their metadatainto the free data portals as Linked Open Data.

In un panorama di continua evoluzione ed interesse da parte della opinione pubblica sul tema dei “dati open” moltienti della pubblica amministrazione e di governo stanno svolgendo azioni specifiche per la concretizzazione di queste iniziative in ottica di open government. Tuttavia, sono in pochi quelli che nel settore privato hanno intrapreso delle iniziative importanti in tale direzione. In questo articolo presentiamo una iniziativa indipendente per una nuova piattaforma software dedicata ai dati open su internet che, se confermasse i propri scopi, costituirebbe un punto di partenza a livello nazionale per l’accesso a questi dati. In a very evolving context and in a particular moment of public interest in theme of open data, many public organizations and government institutions are carrying out specific actions for the realization of initiatives in order to promote the open government ideas. However, very few private organizations have launched initiatives in this direction. In this paper we present an independent initiative for a new software platform for opendata on the internet that aims to be a starting point at the national level for the access to these kind of data.

For fifteen years now the Italian community of GIS come across in the context of Esri User Conference. Held in Rome at the Auditorium del Massimo on 9 and 10 April, the conference was an opportunity to take stock of the situation in the field of Geographic Information Systems. More than 1500 people from all over Italy and other European countries were present in Rome; 150 works were submitted, 10 technology workshops, 7 training courses-videos, 14 sessions aimed at users. The organization has been able to renew the offer of the conference, proposing important changes in the program and a dynamic management of the plenary session, an important stage useful to perceive the dynamics of change that currently cross the GIS industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

“Con il tempo, vedremo emergere un nuovo equilibrio all’interno del quale tutte le differenti forme di software troveranno la propria collocazione: il tradizionale software commerciale, in stile Microsoft o SAP, insieme al modello Business web del software in affitto, in stile Salesforce.com, e al software libero prodotto o da comunità finanziate o da individui ispirati”. T. L. Friedman (Il Mondo è Piatto, Mondadori 2006, pag. 116) Project FreeGIS.net: defined the Reference Implementation FreeGIS.net aims to meet the management, analysis and pub-lication of geographic information through the use of open data formats, free software and open standards. FreeGIS.net is an INTERREG project, funded by the supra-re-gional cooperation "Italy-Switzerland 2007-2013" ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) of the European Union.

This research is an opportunity to discuss how well investments in the development of surveying and mapping, through programmes such as GMES, may translate into operational, useful and relevant tools for environment professionals in the territory. Environmental analysis will be given the floor to provide the feedback on the experience with geomatic applications, and their needs under a pluri-disciplinary approach. The suitability of existing applications will be analyzed, as well as the efficiency of current support mechanisms for regions wishing to take up innovative applications and open data for sustainable management, heritage conservation and e.Education. The interdisciplinary research will analyze the following topics: territorial planning, environmental impact assessment, cultural heritage conservation, etc. from regional, national, European and International Strategies. This is a work in progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research is an opportunity to discuss how well investments in the development of surveying and mapping, through programmes such as GMES, may translate into operational, useful and relevant tools for environment professionals in the territory. Environmental analysis will be given the floor to provide the feedback on the experience with geomatic applications, and their needs under a pluri-disciplinary approach. The suitability of existing applications will be analyzed, as well as the efficiency of current support mechanisms for regions wishing to take up innovative applications and open data for sustainable management, heritage conservation and e.Education. The interdisciplinary research will analyze the following topics: territorial planning, environmental impact assessment, cultural heritage conservation, etc. from regional, national, European and International Strategies. This is a work in progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Municipality of Cesena held since 2005, a georeferencing of road accidents of its territory. Since January 2015 these data will be published on the new open data portal of the City realized with technology StatPortal Open Data. By acting as "data visualization" these open geo data will be accessible via the web with maps, charts and graphs with multiple benefits, from increased knowledge of citizens compared to places with a high accident rate to the transparency of the institution from the measures road safety and control actions during critical periods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The opening of the geographical data in Italian took off in 2011 with an initial strong impulse showing its peak in 2013. But, despite a national law of 2012 which decree the application of geodata, there are still many public agencies that resist. In addition, the publication and reuse of open datasets have highlighted the lack of uniformity of the structures and data models, the inadequate pace of renovation, the use of different terminologies and vocabularies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the GIS solution presented in the Environmental and Urban Regeneration session of the last ESRI Conference, as an activity carried out by the WARREDOC research center on GIS / open data science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The important role of open data in emergencies During emergencies, the geographic information plays a very important and delicate role becoming the main tool to understand what happened and to take decisions. The data therefore will play a crucial role. The availability of data as soon as possible, with the guarantee that they are correct, is a non-trivial aspect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]