Crowdmapping Digital Social Innovation with Linked Data

The European Commission recently became interested in mapping digital social innovation in Europe. In order to understand this rapidly developing if little known area, a visual and interactive survey was made in order to crowd-source a map of digital social innovation, available at http://digitalsocial.eu. Over 900 organizations participated, and Linked Data was used as the backend with a number of valuable advantages. The data was processed using SPARQL and network analysis, and a number of concrete policy recommendations resulted from the analysis.