Publishing the 15th Italian Population and Housing Census as Linked Open Data

The paper describes the first project that Istat, the Italian National Institute of Statistics, has set up for publishing data in LOD on its own SPARQL endpoint. Both the publication process and the underlying technical architecture are described with a focus on design choices (e.g. the adoption of RDF Data Cube Vocabulary for multidimensional data representation and the usage of R2RML for mapping rules specification) and on the adopted technological plat-