Print Email Facebook Twitter Open data portals as part of the open data ecosystem? Title Open data portals as part of the open data ecosystem?: Lessons learned from geoportal research Author van Loenen, B. (TU Delft OLD Geo-information and Land Development) Crompvoets, Joep (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Poplin, Alenka (Iowa State University) Contributor Huerta, Joaquin (editor) Benitez, Fernando (editor) Medhi Moradi, Mohammad (editor) Schlieder, Christoph (editor) Pajarito, Diego (editor) Date 2017 Abstract Many countries and also cities have their own open data portal, which provide geographic data that can be used even by citizens. One of the current challenges is to satisfy user needs to ensure that the data that is provided through the portal isactually used. This paper provides insights in the findability of datasets through of a special kind of portal: the geoportal. It presents the main findings of research accomplished on the findability, attainability and usability of geoportals through anassessment of the transaction costs involved. Subject open data portal assessment To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:245b3cad-07bd-49ff-95bd-5228ad1c196d Publisher CEUR-WS.org Source Joint Proceedings of the 5th Open Data for Open Cities Workshop on Re-use and discovery level, applied to the spatial point analysis process on linear networks and 4th Geogames and Geoplay International Workshop co-located with the 20th International Conference (AGILE 2017) Event AGILE 2017: 20th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, 2017-05-09 → 2017-05-12, Wageningen, Netherlands Series CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 1613-0073, 1952 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2017 B. van Loenen, Joep Crompvoets, Alenka Poplin Files PDF 2017_BVL_JC_AP_AGILE_OD_portals.pdf 911.43 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:245b3cad-07bd-49ff-95bd-5228ad1c196d/datastream/OBJ/view