[okfn-za] Open Data Evaluation of Government Departments

Thu Sep 11 17:39:03 UTC 2014

Jason, I take it back, on re-reading your email I think you're right.

The question of "the data" is interesting though. Rufus' point about
whether they know what data they hold is important but there might
another, weaker question - i.e. is there any data on their website,
whether they can provide a list or not. I think that much of the
population and many in government have no idea what data is. Asking
for a list of available datasets might not give satisfactory results.
Simply looking to see if any data is published might be an indication
that they have (and maintain) at least one public dataset. I would
count that as a great start.

If that's not available, perhaps a fallback is to decide on a dataset
that that department *should* make available. Perhaps that's a little
unfair but we need to start somewhere.

Regards
Adi

On 11 September 2014 16:40, Jason Norwood-Young <jason at 10layer.com> wrote:
> - Is the data available on your website?
> - Is it in an accessible format? (ie, not PDF)
> - Is there a license or copyright?
> - Is the data up-to-date, accurate and useful?
>
> (I kinda snuck three in with that last one)
>
> On Sep 11, 2014, at 4:20 PM, Adi Eyal <adi at code4sa.org> wrote:
>
>> What are the top 4 questions that you would like answered when
>> evaluating whether a government department is Open Data ready?
>>
>> Thoughts anyone?
>>
>> Adi
>>
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