Local Council Decisions as Linked Data: a Proof of Concept

Base registries are trusted authentic information sources controlled by an appointed public administration or organization appointed by the government. Maintaining a base registry comes with extra maintenance costs to create the dataset and keep it up to date. In this paper, we study the possibility to entangle the maintenance of base registries at the core of existing administrative processes and to reduce the cost of maintaining a new data source. We demonstrate a method to manage Local Council Decisions as Linked Data, which creates a new base registry for mandates. We found that no extra effort was needed in the process by local administrations. We show that an endtoend approach for Local Council Decisions as Linked Data is feasible. Furthermore, using this proof of concept, we established a momentum to roll out these ideas for the region of Flanders in Belgium.