[Okfn-ca] Fwd: [open-government] Examples of open data leading to increase in data quality?

Fri Aug 30 14:39:21 UTC 2013

[original text in french follows]

I would like to bring your attention tothis thread on the quality of 
data as published on the list [open-government].

Ted Strauss focus there on the importance of " cleaning " datasets to 
improve their quality. This is certainly a major challenge for public 
organizations, since forty years, a multitude of information systems has 
proliferated and that without extended standardization and  openness 
rules. In my opinion, this is a direct and serious consequence of the 
use of proprietary software that we inherit today.

We have to clean this mess and organizations must get theappropriate 
resources to do it (which is not always the case), The will also need 
the time and have the willingness to adopt the rules on open information 
management (eg, free software and open formats ). Pre-testing with users 
hackathon (before the event) is certainly a good practice to reduce 
frustration and improve mutual understanding (users and suppliers)

I also invite you to contribute to : http://bit.ly/opendata-betterdata

[Texte original en français]
Je porte, à votre attention, ce fil de discussion sur la qualité des 
données de la liste [open-government].

Ted Strauss précise dans son message l'importance du "nettoyage" des 
ensembles de données pour améliorer la qualité. C'est certainement un 
des grands défis des organisations publiques, car depuis quarante ans, 
une multitude de systèmes d'information a proliféré et cela en absence 
de normalisation et d'ouverture. À mon avis, c'est là une des graves 
conséquences de l'usage de logiciels propriétaires dont nous héritons.

Ce nettoyage exige que les organisations ait les ressources compétentes 
(ce qui n'est pas toujours le cas), du temps et la volonté d'adopter les 
règles ouvertes de gestion de l'information (par exemple, le logiciel 
libre et les formats ouverts). Les pré-tests avec les utilisateurs 
d'hackathon (avant l'événement) est certainement une bonne pratique pour 
réduire les frustrations et améliorer la compréhension mutuelle 
(utilisateurs et fournisseurs)

Je vous invite aussi à contribuer à : http://bit.ly/opendata-betterdata

Cordialement,

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Dre Diane Mercier
Ph.D. Sciences de l'information

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-------- Message original --------
Sujet: 	Re: [open-government] Examples of open data leading to increase 
in data quality?
Date : 	Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:26:44 -0400
De : 	Ted Strauss <ted at trudat.co>
Pour : 	Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com>
Copie à : 	open-government at lists.okfn.org <open-government at lists.okfn.org>

Hi Jonathan,
As someone who has worked on open data projects -in a science context- I 
would argue
that much of the work of publishing a dataset is in cleaning it up so as 
to be compatible
with whatever mechanism of dissemination is being employed. The cleaning 
process inevitably
increases the data quality. The example given above by Ton is a classic 
example of the kind
of problems that are discovered in the course of having a technician 
work through a dataset
to make it open.
Best
Ted Strauss

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com 
<mailto:ton.zijlstra at gmail.com>> wrote:

    There's the 18.000 faulty bus stops in UK geo data and the 20.000
    pregnant men in UK NHS data. Both mentioned in this presentation
    http://www.slideshare.net/dirdigeng/20130719-muirfield01 by Andrew
    Stott.

    best,

    Ton

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    On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Jonathan Gray
    <jonathan.gray at okfn.org <mailto:jonathan.gray at okfn.org>> wrote:

        Hi all,

        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?

        All the best,

        Jonathan

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6, 2013

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