International open government initiatives are releasing an increasing volume of raw
government datasets directly to citizens via the Web. The transparency resulting from these
releases not only creates new application opportunities but also imposes new burdens
inherent to large-scale distributed data integration, collaborative data manipulation and
transparent data consumption. The Tetherless World Constellation (TWC) at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has developed the Semantic Web-based TWC LOGD portal to …