[@OKau] "High value" datasets

Wed Apr 15 00:54:41 UTC 2015

Thanks everyone! Really appreciate all these leads. If I come across any
other interesting models I'll share here too
Cassie

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Oh! I'd forgotten about that. I'd even made comments that were answered,
> but I never saw the answers. Have changed disqus settings accordingly.
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> On 15 April 2015 at 07:10, Steven De Costa <
> steven.decosta at linkdigital.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Vic data already has the disqus comment block on datasets. It also has a
>> suggest dataset form. I think Lachlan was just suggesting to use these
>> features...
>>
>> The standard and extended google stats are also on that site. One thing
>> that skews stats is that some datasets can be important but only need to
>> downloaded once or twice by a developer. This might include GIS shape files
>> that aren't expected to be updated often. Or budget info published annually.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Steven
>>
>> On Tuesday, April 14, 2015, Paul Walsh <paulywalsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Lachlan,
>>>
>>> The issues extension may be a good candidate for that:
>>> https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-issues
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14 Apr 2015, at 15:39, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I would love to see some sort of commenting on our local CKAN install at
>>> data.vic.gov.au, so we could work through data sets methodically and
>>> give feedback on quality. It should be a conversation rather than a
>>> firehose, and the CKAN install is the best place for that to happen. IMHO
>>>
>>> L.
>>> On Apr 14, 2015 20:28, "Rebecca Cameron" <rcameron.bis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Cassie
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There are two ways this issue was dealt with when I worked for Qld Gov,
>>>> both primarily related to the use of the data. In theory some datasets
>>>> could by academic defition be high value but if no one even opens the
>>>> dataset it has little value. Therefore value was measured in terms of use.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 1. CKAN allows for departments to measure page hits and down loads.
>>>> Initially this process was performed manually so we could gauge which
>>>> datasets added value and which datasets needed maturing or more frequent
>>>> updating. From experience these measures are best-read 3 months after
>>>> initial publication as the initial hits are usually because the data is
>>>> newly published. I would hope in the last 6 months the capabilities of CKAN
>>>> to provide this information has matured and most open data platforms should
>>>> be able to provide this data. Qld Gov also publish on open data page-views
>>>> by month see
>>>> https://data.qld.gov.au/dataset/visitor-statistics-data-qld-gov-au
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2. The reverse way of reading the questions is which datasets should be
>>>> published first by departments because of their high public value. In
>>>> setting the list of priority publications for a Qld Gov department a brief
>>>> investigation was undertaken of page hits and downloads of data and
>>>> information published on the departments website coupled together with
>>>> records of requests for information both under FOI and researcher requests.
>>>> This allowed for the most "valuable" datasets to be published. Bear in mind
>>>> that the data being published related to the social services and had a
>>>> particular researcher interest.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In respect of the 5-star deployment scheme for Open Data all of the
>>>> departments data was assessed against this schema and amended to meet the
>>>> star rating. There is an OD form which accompanies this rating, but Qld Gov
>>>> weren't ready to complete these.
>>>>
>>>> I hope this helps.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Rebecca
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Cassie Findlay <
>>>> findlay.cassie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone come across good criteria or defined methods for
>>>>> identifying 'high value' datasets? If, for example, you are looking at a
>>>>> whole of government jurisdiction. I found some in this EU report
>>>>> <http://ec.europa.eu/isa/documents/publications/report-on-high-value-datasets-from-eu-institutions_en.pdf>
>>>>> but would like to gather some more.
>>>>>
>>>>> I realise that value is a highly subjective thing to assert (valuable
>>>>> for whom, why?) and really like Rosie's work on defining the problems
>>>>> first, in order to then work out where you might find datasets of value,
>>>>> but all that aside :) - are there examples out there of work to define high
>>>>> value stuff?
>>>>>
>>>>> Many thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Cassie Findlay
>>>>>
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