[Open-data-census] What to answer if dataset is not publicly available

Mon Oct 7 14:45:42 BST 2013

For government spending in Canada, I don't *know* that it exists, but modest assumptions about accounting standards would strongly suggest that it exists for Canada and every other government (and that it exists in digital form, as I doubt any national government does its accounting on paper).

Rephrasing your implication, if publicly available is No/Unsure, then the others to the right must be No/Unsure except possibly for machine-readable. I guess I could flip machine-readable from No to Unsure, but the score is the same either way. Thanks for the clarification!

James

On 2013-10-07, at 5:51 AM, Rufus Pollock wrote:

> Simple answer is no: you may know something about the data even though it is not publicly available.
> 
> To clarify, here are some the major "implications" of the answers as I see it:
> 
> Exists (No or Unsure) => No / Unsure for everything else (this is only one enforced by the system atm)
> 
> Publicly available (No / Unsure) => No / Unsure for Free + Online + Bulk + Openly Licensed + Timely basis
> Digital form (No / Unsure) => No / Unsure for Online + Machine Readable
> 
> One of the aims of the questions is to provide a increasing set of requirements leading up to full openness (excluding timely which is important but not a requirement for open data).
> 
> Note, this does not mean each question directly builds on the previous since some of are parallel (e.g. digital form and publicly available) but in general there is a progression so No on an earlier question may well imply No on a later question.
> 
> Rufus
> 
> 
> On 6 October 2013 16:32, James McKinney <james at opennorth.ca> wrote:
> If a dataset is not publicly available, should the answer be "No" to all following questions, or "Unsure"? What is the proper procedure?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James
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