[Open-data-census] Inaccuracies in current display of the National open data Index

Sun Jun 29 11:35:59 UTC 2014

In the case of Germany the initial research that then became frozen in
the index was simply wrong. The information was shortly corrected
after we discovered the errors and is displayed correctly in the
census but not in the index (which is a snapshot at a given point in
time). However, it would be good to update the index at any time soon.

Daniel

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On 29 June 2014 01:48, Mor Rubinstein <morchickit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am writing my thesis regarding Open Data in Europe and I'm using the Open
> Index as one of my main datasets for a comparison. Compare to the Barometer,
> half of the countries in the Index are from Europe, which makes it the
> better choice for this kind of research.
>
> During my work I discovered some inaccuracies in the data. Germany for
> example, has 410 points in the official index page, while it has 610 in the
> census one- http://national.census.okfn.org/ . Slovenia is another example
> with 485 points in the Index and 725 in the census.
>
> In the Germany case, the score was updated shortly after the census was
> published, yet no one ever updated it. Moreover, in the Barometer, Germany
> score is closer to 615, which shows that the current value is wrong. My
> question is - Why is the data faulty? This data is relevant to 2013 and
> actually cause faulty information analysis like in the case of this map -
> http://geography.oii.ox.ac.uk/?page=open-data-index
>
>
> Thanks,
> Mor
>
>
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