Open Government Data Portal Design Principles: Implementing Transparency, Privacy, and Information Quality Assurance by Design

Transparency, privacy, and information quality assurance are profound issues that often emerge due to the publication or use of open data. Realizing the three values are important, and the design of open government data portals should be able to accommodate the values. However, how the open data portals should be designed in order to accommodate...

Exploring the Value Enabled by Big Open and Linked Data in Smart Cities: A foresight study for the smart cities Rotterdam and The Hague

Despite the high expectations regarding the potential value that Big Open and Linked Data (BOLD) can enable in smart cities, the research on the topic is scarce. The present study responds to this need by conducting a foresight study with core interest the long-term impact of BOLD on smart cities. Moreover, the research develops a model for...

Big and Open Linked Data (BOLD) in Research, Policy and Practice

The value of data as a new economic asset class is seldom realized on its own. With less reliance on self-administered survey, it offers new insights into behaviors and patterns. Yet it is a huge undertaking of bringing together multiple actors from different disciplines and diverse practices to examine the underexplored relationships between...

Open data infrastructures: The design of an infrastructure to enhance the coordination of open data use

Governments and researchers traditionally focus on the publication of Open Government Data (OGD), whereas the actual use of the data is often neglected. Open data initiatives are often criticized for not realising the promoted benefits, yet only the use of OGD can result in these benefits. OGD use requires several actors, activities and tools;...

Participation and Data Quality in Open Data use: Open Data Infrastructures Evaluated

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...

Barriers in open energy data: An exploratory study into open energy data barriers and their mitigation strategies

As the open data movement is growing, more and more data becomes available for developers to be re-used. New applications based on these data are rapidly being developed and can help to solve societal problems. One of these new applications to solve societal problems, is to use energy data to quantitatively help decision makers in the urban...

An Investigation of how private companies can benefit from public sector through open data

This research focuses on how private companies can use open data in order to innovate. The research investigates how certain resources and moderating variables can influence the open data use by the companies. The research used four research methods in order to collect the necessary data: Literature review, open data scenario, interviews, and...

Open Data: Growing Up and Getting Specific

Open data has been given a lot of attention in the public. In some situation ‘open by default’ has become established as a core principle, whereas others argue about the limited results and the lack of robust studies demonstrating the value, and point to the risk that open data might turn out to be a short lived policy fad. This special issue...

Special Issue on Transparency and Open Data Policies: Guest Editors’ Introduction

Literature and policy reports suggest that open data can be used as a tool to enhance transparency. However, several researchers have challenged the idea that the release of government data will result in increased transparency and the idea that transparency automatically leads to more trust in the government. Moreover, transparency may have...

Design Principles for Improving the Process of Publishing Open data

· Purpose: Governments create large amounts of data. However, the publication of open data is often cumbersome and there are no standard procedures and processes for opening data. This blocks the easy publication of government data. The purpose of this paper is to derive design principles for improving the open data publishing process of public...

Innovation with open data: Essential elements of open data ecosystems

Open data ecosystems are expected to bring many advantages, such as stimulating citizen participation and innovation. However, scant attention has been given to what constitutes an open data ecosystem. The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of essential elements of open data ecosystems for enabling easy publication and use of open...

The potential of metadata for linked open data and its value for users and publishers

Public and private organizations increasingly release their data to gain benefits such as transparency and economic growth. The use of these open data can be supported and stimulated by providing considerable metadata (data about the data), including discovery, contextual and detailed metadata. In this paper we argue that metadata are key...

Benefits, Adoption Barriers and Myths of Open Data and Open Government

Although a significant number of public organizations have embraced the idea of open data, many are still reluctant to do this. One root cause is that the publicizing of data represents a shift from a closed to an open system of governance, which has a significant impact upon the relationships between public agencies and the users of open data....