Esther Minguela is head of Open Data group in the Standards Committee CTN 178 “Smart cities” promoted by the Secretary of State for Information Society and Digital Agenda (SESIAD) at the Spanish Standardization Body (UNE).
She is editor of ITU-T SG20 draft Recommendation Y.ODI Open Data Indicator in smart cities. Besides is editor of the Spanish Recommendation UNE 178301 Smart Cities Open Data published in 2015.
Ms Minguela also participates as Spanish expert in other standardization groups at national and international levels related to open data and semantic data.
Besides, she is CEO in Localidata, a company specialized in the design and implementation of Open Data Portals and APIs, where has worked in projects for public administrations (municipal, regional and national) and in European projects.
Title of presentation: Open Data Governance, Platform and Interoperability
This presentation will focus on the importance of Open Data Governance, initiatives from various organizations and Recommendations published and under study.
It will also present the relationship between Open Data Governance and Smart City Platform, to explain that Open Data is more than just a portal.
And finally, it will present the need for inside data interoperability and between cities, where semantic is essential and data models and vocabularies are the key.
