Critical Factors for Open Data Publication and Use

Critical Factors for Open Data Publication and Use: A Comparison of City-level, Regional, and Transnational Cases

susha, Iryna (Orebro University)
Zuiderwijk-van Eijk, A.M.G. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology)
Charalabidis, Yannis (University of the Aegean)
Parycek, Peter (Danube University Krems)
Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology)

2015

There is a lack of research concerning the factors influencing the success or failure of open data initiatives. Based on the results of two workshops, we provide a list of 47 success factors for open data publication and 18 success factors for open data use. We further use three case studies (ENGAGE, Open NY, and Open Vienna) to examine how the criticality of factors varies depending on the geographical level and other characteristics of the open data initiative. The cases, representing open data initiatives at city, regional, and transnational levels, point at different categories of critical success factors. Our key conclusions are that 1) the criticality of the factors depends considerably on the context of the open data initiative; 2) a number of success factors appear to be more universally applicable than others; 3) the factors that are critical to all three cases are derived from many different success factor categories, which suggests that open data initiatives should adopt an interdisciplinary approach, and 4) further work is needed to detail the success factors for open data publication and use in other contexts.

open data
success
success factors
level
taxonomy
e-government
case study

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2075-9517

JeDEM eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government, 7 (2), 94-115

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© 2015 Iryna susha, A.M.G. Zuiderwijk-van Eijk, Yannis Charalabidis, Peter Parycek, M.F.W.H.A. Janssen