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

Thu Aug 1 11:06:07 BST 2013

On 1 August 2013 10:24, Tatyana Tolsteneva <tatyanatolsteneva at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Rufus,
>
> thanks a lot for your explanation, i have already found it here
> https://github.com/okfn/opendatacensus/issues/33.
> Please take my apologies for "OKNF", it was just a misprint.
>

No worries :-) (Just making sure not a confusion as opposed to typo!)

> Here in Russia the Census it considered to be most authoritative
> comparative study of open data around the world. And here we really feel
> some lack of official information about the Census methodology.
> It seems, this problem could be solved by official publication of the
> methodology on the Census website.
> Could it be possible? What do you think about the methodology publication?
>

Yes this is a very good idea and we'll get moving on this right away. Any
suggestions for specific things to include or language are very welcome!

Rufus

Yours sincerely,
>
> Tatyana Tolsteneva
> Development manager
> tatyana.tolsteneva at svobodainfo.org
>
> Freedom of Information Foundation
> (formerly known as Institute for Information Freedom Development)
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> 31.07.2013, в 22:28, Rufus Pollock написал(а):
>
> [changing mailing list from okfn-discuss to open-data-census]
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> On 23 July 2013 12:06, Tatyana Tolsteneva <tatyanatolsteneva at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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/
>>
>
> OKFN (Open Knowledge Foundation (Network))
>
>
>> At first i had a hypothesis, that each "yes" costs 1 poin and points just
>> should to be summarized.
>>
>
> That's almost the case but not quite: whether data is up to date does not
> count towards the total score.
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> See above.
>
>
>> Form the table http://census.okfn.org/G8/ i can see that some
>> times "yes" per "data existence" is taken into the account.
>>
>
> It should be always taken into 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
>>
>
> It is included there - it's up to date that is not included.
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> See above.
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Hope the above clarifies things. Also thanks for asking as your questions
> will encourage us to put up further documentation on the website!
>
> Rufus
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