[okfn-discuss] A question about the Open Data census scoring system

Tue Jul 23 11:06:16 UTC 2013

Dear colleagues,
my name is Tatyana and i'm a development manager of the Freedom of Information Foundation - Russian FOI-advocasy NGO based in St. Petersburg.
I'm interested in the OKNF Open Data Census scoring system because i can't catch it's idea of it http://census.okfn.org/G8/

At first i had a hypothesis, that each "yes" costs 1 poin and points just should to be summarized.
This idea has been perfect, if maximum for all questions would have been 7.
But we have 6 as maximum.
So my question is about "data existence" column
IN case all  "yes" should cost 1 points, it should be 7 as maximum.
Form the table http://census.okfn.org/G8/ i can see that some times "yes" per "data existence" is taken into the account.
Fo example,  Transport timetable is Russia, Government spending is France and in Italy.
But in the majority of cases YES per "data existence" is not included into the account. For example Zip-codes Russia
And speaking about Russian case, company register for Russia  has 2/6 and Transport timetable has 2/6, but Company register is up to date and Transport timetable is not.

Would you be so kind to explain this scoring and situation with points for "data existence" and i woul be specially glad for explaining in the context of the Russian score.

Thanks a lot in advance.
Yours sincerely,

Tatyana Tolsteneva
Development manager
tatyana.tolsteneva at svobodainfo.org

Freedom of Information Foundation

(formerly known as Institute for Information Freedom Development)

P.O. Box 527, St.-Petersburg, 192007, Russia
Phone:  +7 812 766-03-66 

Fax: +7 812 766-52-61 

Email: info at svobodainfo.org

www.svobodainfo.org

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/attachments/20130723/7ff51048/attachment.html>