[Open-data-census] Scoring OpenData Completeness

Thu Nov 7 13:38:48 GMT 2013

Daniela and Andreas: Great to follow this discussion! Looking forward to
hear more of what you come up with.
I've also added this idea to our future development idea
pad<https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/1K8t8--e422bzDEg2YCl3OHfwfeN4XksRuXkQY1vizUY/edit>
.

-Christian

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On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Daniela Mattern
<daniela.mattern at it3s.org>wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
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> 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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