[Open-data-census] Scoring OpenData Completeness

Wed Nov 6 09:49:02 GMT 2013

Hi Daniela!

I'm currently looking into the different reporting obligations within
the EU concerning environmental data [0].

These obligations & guidelines are extremely comprehensive and it
could be worth a try to see if we can e.g. strip down the 157 page
European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) requirements
[1] down to no more than five paragraphs.

cu andreas

[0] http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/water/reporting-obligations
[1] http://prtr.ec.europa.eu/pgDownloadGuidance.aspx

2013/11/5 Daniela Mattern <daniela.mattern at it3s.org>:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> that is a great idea.
> I have used the data from Austrian census and your evaluation to somehow
> dedide what will be an appropriate score for Brazilian air pollution data. I
> tried to compare also with examples from other countries in order to measure
> completeness as the criteria are sometimes vague.
>
> I suggest that we further study one of these datasets and compare datasets
> between countries in order to understand which data could be potentially
> offered and which datasets are the most complete.
>
> Would you like to work on this?
>
> Who else is interested in finding best datasets and further discussing
> evaluation standards?
>
> Best,
>
> Daniela
>
>
>
>
> 2013/11/5 Andreas Trawoeger <atrawog at kartenwerkstatt.at>
>>
>> I'm currently reviewing the scores for Austria and I'm a quite worried
>> that Data Completeness isn't scored in any form.
>>
>> OpenData and OpenGovernment has got quite popular in Austria and every
>> government agency starts to publish some kind of OpenData (which is a
>> good thing).
>>
>> Only problem is that some agencies only offer either a single or
>> multiple incomplete data sets which are pretty useless in real use,
>> but allows them to get good scores in multiple evaluation.
>>
>> A good example is the Umweltbundesamt (Federal Environment Agency
>> Austria) which only offers the current hourly averaged Ozone data and
>> still gets a Open Data Index Score of 70% [0].
>>
>> What worries me is that the Open Data Index in the current form could
>> encourage and reward agencies to only do a OpenData lip service.
>>
>> My suggestion for the next index revision would be to choose a best
>> practice example for every category and score the Data Completeness
>> relative to that.
>>
>> For air pollution I would recommend the EEA AirBase [1] as reference
>> which offers excellent air pollution data about Europe.
>>
>>
>> cu andreas
>>
>> [0] https://index.okfn.org/country/Austria/emissions
>> [1]
>> http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/airbase-the-european-air-quality-database-7#tab-data-by-country
>>
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