his is a Linked Data version of the Eurostat data with the goal to provide 5 star Linked Open Data on the European level, in a contextually rich and up-to-date manner, useful for ETL-style business analysis or data warehousing purposes with benefits including but not limited to: It allows for a straight-forward comparison of statistical indicators across EU countries; Through providing context for statistics it facilitates the interpretation process; Enables one to re-use observations in a fine-grained way. A SPARQL endpoint allows the user to query the entire metadata, including DSDs and dictionaries. Contains SPARQL queries kindly provided by Søren Roug from the European Environment Agency (EEA).
URL: http://eurostat.linked-statistics.org/
Keywords: Extract, Transform, Load (ETL), 5-Star Linked Open Data, SPARQL endpoint, Dataset, RDF
Author: Roug, Søren
Publisher: DERI
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P1H
Educational use: professionalDevelopment
Educational audience: professional
Interactivity type: mixed