[open-government] Examples of open data leading to increase in data quality?

Thu Oct 3 17:01:38 UTC 2013

Hello all,

A few more examples from the french perspective that come to mind:
- in april 2010, when the company Keolis opened for the first time its
open-bike system's data for the city of Rennes, the positions of the
stations were all shifted and therefore incorrect, the problem was
quickly fixed after the data was published and tried on by re-users
<http://data.keolis-rennes.com/fr/forum/developpement.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Btid%5D=6>
- when data on the candidates of the legislative elections was
published and re-used by ourselves, some people across the country
started reporting us errors like wrong names or dates of births, which
we corrected in our version published on our citizen CKAN
<http://www.nosdonnees.fr/dataset/liste-des-candidats-aux-lections-lgislatives-2012-dans-chaque-circonscription>
- when the Ministry for Agriculture published geographical data on the
production <http://www.data.gouv.fr/content/search?SearchText=registre+parcellaire+graphique&SortBy=PublishDate&SortOrder=0&Type=data&SortBy=PublishDate&SortOrder=0>,
people from OSM tried to push it into OpenStretMap and found many
geometrical errors they had to fix
<http://blog.rodolphe.quiedeville.org/index.php?post/2011/12/registre-parcellaire-graphique-opendata-baddata>

In these last two cases though, and even when the corrections were
forwarded to the administrations, the corrections were not applied
back to the original datasets to our knowledge.

Best,

Benjamin for Regards Citoyens

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Brilliant - thanks Ewan. This is now added to the list:
> http://bit.ly/opendata-betterdata
>
> Any other examples would be warmly welcomed! (You can also email me directly
> rather than to the mailing list, if you'd prefer.)
>
>
> On 1 September 2013 22:56, Ewan Klein <ewan.klein at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 27 Aug 2013, at 16:50, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>> I wonder if anyone has any good examples or evidence of how open data (or
>> - more generally - publicly released machine readable data) has led to an
>> increase in data quality?
>>
>>
>> The following blog entry discusses this issue, especially concerning
>> charities data:
>>
>>
>> http://blog.opencorporates.com/2011/05/19/case-study-fixing-broken-government-information-with-open-data/
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ewan
>>
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