[Open-data-census] Scoring OpenData Completeness

Wed Nov 6 11:52:09 GMT 2013

Hi Andreas,

this is a great point to start.
I will study this material as well, so.
When we got through this we can discuss the criteria, ok?

Best,

Daniela

2013/11/6 Andreas Trawoeger <atrawog at kartenwerkstatt.at>

> 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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