Abstract On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) is a data analysis technique typically used
for local and well-prepared data. However, initiatives like Open Data and Open Government
bring new and publicly available data on the web that are to be analyzed in the same way.
The use of semantic web technologies for this context is especially encouraged by the
Linked Data initiative. There is already a considerable amount of statistical linked open data
sets published using the RDF Data Cube Vocabulary (QB) which is designed for these …