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Exploring the extent of openness of open government data – a critique of open government datasets in the UK
- Source :
- Wang, V & Shepherd, D W J 2020, ' Exploring the extent of openness of open government data – a critique of open government datasets in the UK ', Government Information Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1, 101405, pp. 1-10 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2019.101405
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- The claim of the open government data (OGD) movement is that it would add considerable value to the political, economic and social development of nations. Thus, during the past few years, governments around the world have been under increasing pressure to release data to encourage citizen participation in government. In the UK, the government publishes its data on the data.gov.uk website for the public to find, view, download and interrogate. 1 In this paper, we evaluate the extent of openness of OGD in the UK – a recognised global leader in the OGD movement – by examining a sample of 400 datasets listed on this website. The examination uses an ‘ordinary citizen’ test, which is developed based on the original eight Sebastopol principles of open data. Our examination discovers that existing prevalent measures of openness of data are inadequate. Our findings demonstrate that the majority of the published government resources on the website are informational rather than granular data. In fact, only a small minority of these advertised as open data are actually open, which severely limits their open government utilities.
- Subjects :
- Open government
Government
Sociology and Political Science
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open government
Social change
Global Leadership
open data
RCUK
Social Sciences(all)
Library and Information Sciences
Public administration
granularity
embargoover12
EPSRC
Politics
Open data
Open government data
Political science
Openness to experience
ordinary citizen
data.gov.uk
Law
EP/N27825/1
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Wang, V & Shepherd, D W J 2020, ' Exploring the extent of openness of open government data – a critique of open government datasets in the UK ', Government Information Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1, 101405, pp. 1-10 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2019.101405
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