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Shaharudin, Ashraf (author), van Loenen, B. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author)Open data has many potential benefits including stimulating innovation, enhancing accountability and transparency, and improving the reproducibility and dissemination of research (Janssen et al., 2012; Uhlir and Schröder, 2007; Zhu et al., 2019). However, there are various shortcomings in the current open data initiatives such as the mismatch...abstract 2023
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Kević, Karlo (author), Miletić, Andrea (author), Kuveždić Divjak, Ana (author), Welle Donker, F.M. (author)Over the last decade, open data has become a hot topic that researchers and governments all over the world are eager to explore. The term first appeared in a 1995 document from an American scientific agency (Chignard, 2013), but its popularity increased when the U.S. president, Barrack Obama, signed the 2009 Memorandum on Transparency and Open...abstract 2022
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Calzati, S. (author)This paper takes the lead from the acknowledged ongoing mismatch between open data provision and actual open data demand by users, both public and private. To tackle such mismatch, the paper suggests remodulating data openness through a commons approach, which seeks to account for all data actors’ needs, while maintaining their interests in...abstract 2022
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Hrustek, L. (author), Tomičić Furjan, M. (author), Džidić, A. (author), Šalamon, D. (author), Varga, F. (author), van Loenen, B. (author)The current readiness of the agricultural sector in Croatia to transform is limited. Creating and using an open data ecosystem in which data truly is the main force of the innovation process offers an opportunity to strengthen cooperation in this sector. The stakeholders of the agricultural data ecosystem in Croatia were not investigated until...book chapter 2021
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van Loenen, B. (author), Vancauwenberghe, G. (author), Crompvoets, Joep (author), Dalla Corte, L. (author)This book is about open data, i.e. data that does not have any barriers in the (re)use. Open data aims to optimize access, sharing and using data from a technical, legal, financial, and intellectual perspective. Data increasingly determines the way people live their lives today. Nowadays, we cannot imagine a life without real-time traffic...book chapter 2018
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van Loenen, B. (author)Open data in The Netherlands dates back to the 1990s when the Ministry of Internal Affairs published the memorandum‘Towards accessibility of government<br/>information’. More than two decades later, open data in The Netherlands has matured with the assignment of a responsible Ministry for open data, an open data vision and an open data action...book chapter 2018
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van Loenen, B. (author)The chapter explains that the single typical user of open government data does not exist. Therefore, data suppliers should take a five-step approach in the design of the user oriented policy: (1) define its objective(s) of open data, (2) recognise and identify the user types needed to arrive at the objectives, (3) assess the appropriateness of...book chapter 2018
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Welle Donker, F.M. (author)Open government data are fast becoming entrenched in our society. However, even though open government data may be “free”, it is not “gratis”. It takes substantial human and financial resources not only to collect and maintain government data, but also to process the data to be suitable for distribution as open data. Those resources need to be...book chapter 2018
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Zuiderwijk-van Eijk, A.M.G. (author)While governments and researchers often focus on the opening of data through open data infrastructures, the adoption and use of open data infrastructures has received less attention, despite the fact that this use should result in the envisioned benefits. This study aims to examine to which extent and by which factors the acceptance and use of...book chapter 2016
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Vancauwenberghe, G. (author), van Loenen, B. (author)In the past 20 years, European public authorities have invested considerable resources in the development of spatial data infrastructures. With the European INSPIRE Directive as an important driver, national spatial data infrastructures were developed throughout Europe to facilitate and coordinate the exchange and sharing of geographic data....book chapter 2018
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Ploeger, H.D. (author), van Loenen, B. (author)At the moment of writing, we are witnessing a data revolution. In this chapter we present our perspective on the direction of the developments in the coming 30 years. By offering both a dystopian and a utopian vision on the (open) data world in 2050, we open the debate on the direction the use of open data should take. This final chapter...book chapter 2018
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Ploeger, H.D. (author), van Loenen, B. (author)De stad produceert 24 uur per dag onvoorstelbare hoeveelheden data. Een stroom gegevens op gebieden als transport, energie, milieu en gezondheid die alleen maar toeneemt. Data die steeds vaker als open data publiekelijk gedeeld worden. Maar ook data die binnen het domein van grote databedrijven als Google, Amazon, Facebook en Uber blijven en...book chapter 2019
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Zuiderwijk-van Eijk, A.M.G. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author)Infrastructures may improve the use of Open Government Data (OGD) by providing insight in how individuals can participate in data reuse and in the quality of open data. Yet, most OGD infrastructures do not support such activities. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the importance and usability of participation mechanisms and data quality...conference paper 2015
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Šalamon, D. (author), Tomičić Furjan, M. (author), Džidić, A. (author), Varga, F. (author), Hrustek, L. (author), van Loenen, B. (author)Open data is critical for digital innovation in the sector of agriculture. We aimed to identify the four key elements of the open data ecosystem for the agricultural domain in Croatia. 357 data files available via the Croatian Open data portal, the internet pages of the Ministry of agriculture, the Croatian agency for agriculture and food, as...conference paper 2021
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Di Staso, D. (author), Kleiman, F. (author), Crompvoets, Joep (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author)According to open government principles, public administration should make its data available to the public to create transparency, accountability, and to facilitate participation in public decision-making. Open-Data Policies (ODPs) were developed to encourage the opening of governmental data to the public, but require collaboration and...conference paper 2021
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Indrajit, A. (author), van Loenen, B. (author), van Oosterom, P.J.M. (author)Spatial Information Infrastructure (SDI) has great potential to support smart city by providing framework dataset and real-time information services in urban informational infrastructure, the social infrastructure and citizen's participation practices. Bandung City and Jakarta City are maintaining their SDI for various kinds of decision-making...conference paper 2017
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Dalla Corte, L. (author), van Loenen, B. (author), Cuijpers, Colette (author)“Smart city” is a buzzword, highly hyped up and evading a unitary characterisation. Its blurriness is highlighted by the broad array of definitions with which academic and corporate literature have attempted at delineating the notion. This paper derives from the elaboration of several definitions that have been given to the concept of smart city...conference paper 2017
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Susha, I (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author), Grönlund, A (author), Tambouris, E (author)There is much potential for open and big data to be used for addressing societal challenges of today. This drives a new kind of partnership called “data collaborative” emphasizing the value of data for public good. Data collaboratives stand for cross-sector partnerships, whereby organizations in the private or public sector disclose their data,...conference paper 2016
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Susha, Iryna (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author), Verhulst, Stefaan (author)Data collaboratives present a new form of cross-sector and public-private partnership to leverage (often corporate) data for addressing a societal challenge. They can be seen as the latest attempt to make data accessible to solve public problems. Although an increasing number of initiatives can be found, there is hardly any analysis of these...conference paper 2017