# Linked Open Government Data: Still a Viable Option for Sharing and Integrating Public Data?
## 7 What Valuable Examples of LOGD Adoption Can Be Found Today?
### National and International LOGD Take-Up  
Numerous countries have demonstrated a keen interest in, or have actively embraced, LD principles as part of their governmental open data initiatives. An explicit endorsement of LD is found in the Data Strategy of the Federal German Government, which articulates its future-looking vision: \"Data records are to be made usable through (semantic) connections with the aid of LD and application programming interfaces for the application of artificial intelligence. ([[https://www.bundesregierung.de/resource/blob/992814/1950610/5f386401845](https://www.bundesregierung.de/resource/blob/992814/1950610/5f386401845)]([https://www.bundesregierung.de/resource/blob/992814/1950610/5f386401845](https://www.bundesregierung.de/resource/blob/992814/1950610/5f386401845)) da99721f9 faa082f415 cf/datenstrategie-der-bundesregierung-englisch-download-bpa-data. pdf (accessed on 15 January 2024))\". The Agency for Digital Italy (AGID), tasked with achieving the objectives of the Italian digital agenda and promoting the widespread adoption of information and communication technologies, advocates for a systematic approach towards the native production of LOD ([[https://www.agid.gov.it/sites/default/](https://www.agid.gov.it/sites/default/)]([https://www.agid.gov.it/sites/default/](https://www.agid.gov.it/sites/default/))files/repository_files/lg-open-data_v.1.0_1.pdf (accessed on in 15 January 2024)). Emphasizing the importance of adhering to LOD best practices based on W3C standards, including various serializations of RDF, AGID underscores that such adherence is crucial for attaining the fourth and fifth levels in the five-star model for open data. In Spain, practical guidelines are offered as part of the Aporta Initiative, a program developed by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation through the Public Business Entity Red.es. These guidelines, accessible at [[https://datos.gob.es/en/documentacion/practical-guide-publication-linked-data](https://datos.gob.es/en/documentacion/practical-guide-publication-linked-data)]([https://datos.gob.es/en/documentacion/practical-guide-publication-linked-data](https://datos.gob.es/en/documentacion/practical-guide-publication-linked-data)) (accessed on in 15 January 2024), aim to assist organizations interested in converting their tabular data (commonly found in open data portals) into RDF. The guide comprehensively describes and consolidates best practices, tips, and workflows, empowering those managing open data portals and individuals preparing data for portal publication to create RDF datasets efficiently and sustainably over time. Other notable examples of LD practices in the context of governmental data are constituted by the Italian parliament. Both the wings of the Italian parliament, Camera and Senato, publish data about the parliamentary work in RDF and provide SPARQL endpoints ([[https://dati.camera.it/sparql](https://dati.camera.it/sparql)]([https://dati.camera.it/sparql](https://dati.camera.it/sparql)) (accessed on 15 January 2024), [[https://dati.senato.it/sparql](https://dati.senato.it/sparql)]([https://dati.senato.it/sparql](https://dati.senato.it/sparql)) (accessed on 15 January 2024)). The European Patent Office publishes information about European patent applications using LD. By means of LD, an HTTP dereferenceable URI is associated with each patent application and its related data can be queried via SPARQL endpoint ([[https://data.epo.org/linked-data/sparql.html](https://data.epo.org/linked-data/sparql.html)]([https://data.epo.org/linked-data/sparql.html](https://data.epo.org/linked-data/sparql.html)) (accessed on 1 February 2024)).