[okfn-za] Open Data Evaluation of Government Departments

Fri Sep 12 06:39:31 UTC 2014

Hi Adi

Happy to share my interview questions and notes from an interview with the
Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) on data management and
open data provision from their Higher Education Management Information
System (HEMIS) database. It's in PDF, of course! 
Questions (and the scribbled answers) may be of interest given your question
yesterday.

Let me know?

Best wishes
Francois

Francois van Schalkwyk
Principle investigator

ODDC/OpenUCT

The funding for this work has been provided through the World Wide Web
Foundation 'Exploring the Emerging Impacts of Open Data in Developing
Countries' research project, supported by grant 107075 from Canada's
International Development Research Centre (web.idrc.ca).

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Subject: Re: [okfn-za] Open Data Evaluation of Government Departments

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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