# National Budget as Linked Open Data: New Tools for Supporting the Sustainability of Public Finances
## 2 Related Work
The case of Singapore leaves to government the responsibility of publishing the budget in open data ([[https://data.gov.sg/dataset/government-fiscal-position-annual](https://data.gov.sg/dataset/government-fiscal-position-annual)]([https://data.gov.sg/dataset/government-fiscal-position-annual](https://data.gov.sg/dataset/government-fiscal-position-annual))), which later allows the development of visualization a tool ([[https://viz.sg/viz/budget2019](https://viz.sg/viz/budget2019)]([https://viz.sg/viz/budget2019](https://viz.sg/viz/budget2019))) in hands of the citizens ([[https://www.vslabr.com/2019/02/visualizing-2019-singapore-budget/](https://www.vslabr.com/2019/02/visualizing-2019-singapore-budget/)]([https://www.vslabr.com/2019/02/visualizing-2019-singapore-budget/](https://www.vslabr.com/2019/02/visualizing-2019-singapore-budget/))), being a successful case of fiscalization and empowerment. The government of Mexico has developed a portal about budgetary transparency ([[https://www.transparenciapresupuestaria.gov.mx](https://www.transparenciapresupuestaria.gov.mx)]([https://www.transparenciapresupuestaria.gov.mx](https://www.transparenciapresupuestaria.gov.mx))) where they published a set of informative multimedia documents, in addition to a budget visualization and access to budget open data. In a similar way, in the US, the openoakland.org ([[https://openoakland.org](https://openoakland.org)]([https://openoakland.org](https://openoakland.org))) portal offers an open data portal ([[http://data.openoakland.org/](http://data.openoakland.org/)]([http://data.openoakland.org/](http://data.openoakland.org/))) with the budget information available for the Oakland citizens both in open data, and through data visualizations ([[https://openbudgetoakland.org](https://openbudgetoakland.org)]([https://openbudgetoakland.org](https://openbudgetoakland.org))). The USA Spending portal ([[https://usasspending.gov](https://usasspending.gov)]([https://usasspending.gov](https://usasspending.gov))) tracks federal spending to ensure taxpayers can see how their money is being used in communities across America, using mainly a treemap chart. All the data visualized are published as open data and also as SQL dump archives, with information since 2001 to date. The United Kingdom offers its known open data portal ([[http://data.gov.uk](http://data.gov.uk)]([http://data.gov.uk](http://data.gov.uk))) and several visualization portals, where it highlights the portal of public spending ([[https://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/uk_budget](https://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/uk_budget)]([https://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/uk_budget](https://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/uk_budget))), which offers a complete analysis by public policies sector. Similar to this last, Brazil makes available the transparency portal ([[http://www.portaltransparencia.gov.br/orcamento](http://www.portaltransparencia.gov.br/orcamento)]([http://www.portaltransparencia.gov.br/orcamento](http://www.portaltransparencia.gov.br/orcamento))) as a complement of their data portal ([[http://www.dados.gov.br](http://www.dados.gov.br)]([http://www.dados.gov.br](http://www.dados.gov.br))). However, the main focus of these portals is about shared data, putting in background data visualizations. Finally, the Uruguay government has published a visualization of the national budget ([[https://datos.hacienda.gov.py/visualization/presupuesto](https://datos.hacienda.gov.py/visualization/presupuesto)]([https://datos.hacienda.gov.py/visualization/presupuesto](https://datos.hacienda.gov.py/visualization/presupuesto))) as part of their national open data portal. This portal offers a complete high level description of the budget execution. Additionally, this portal offers an API for data consume. Other Related Projects  
OpenBudgets.eu [19] is an European project that provides to civil society, NGOs and public administrations a platform, tools and data for boosting fiscal transparency policies.