[Open-data-census] 2014 Global Open Data Index for Ireland is complete

Wed Nov 19 10:48:13 UTC 2014

Thanks pierre,

I will relook as spending!

On Wednesday, November 19, 2014, Pierre Chrzanowski <
pierre.chrzanowski at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Tracey,
>
> Two quick remarks:
>
> I had a quick look to spending and it is said it is spending data at the
> level of agency or programme but the definition asks spending data at a
> transactional level on specific items.
>
> On the subject of PostCode dataset, I actually think we should remove this
> dataset from the Census as it is not consistent among countries and replace
> it with Address data.
>
> Best
> Pierre
>
>
>
> On Wed Nov 19 2014 at 2:15:45 AM Tracey P. Lauriault <tlauriau at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','tlauriau at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Greetings all;
>>
>> For the moment, providing all the others are complete, Ireland is ranked
>> at #27, with 540 points.  See here - http://global.census.okfn.org/
>> place/ie
>>
>> Much work needs to be done on licencing, machine readability, bulk
>> downloading, and the cost of the data.
>>
>> Last year Ireland ranked 24th with 460 points.  The ranking is relative
>> to other countries and we will have to wait until the final tally is in to
>> assess how to compare.
>>
>> Why did we do better by 80 points?  Well we were more sure this time on
>> some variables, I think we were a little less knowledgeable last year about
>> bulk downloads, and we were unsure about licences, and so on.  Again, we
>> will have to sit and compare more carefully to explain the differences once
>> the final for 2014 is complete overall.
>>
>> *Can the OKF clarify* if Ireland is penalized in the ranking due to its
>> lack of a postal code system.  For example, since we do not have one it is
>> a 0%, how does that affect us overall in the points? Should our points be
>> averaged out of 9 indicators instead of 10?
>>
>> There were many submissions provided, and many comments and all of these
>> were taken into account and responses were qualified.
>>
>> This index is useful in terms of evaluating the qualities of the data but
>> not necessarily data quality.  Also, some concepts could use some
>> refinements, for example, national map, national statistics, and the
>> concept of bulk download, for example one cannot feasibly bulk download the
>> entire national statistics database, or all the national maps.
>>
>> Please let me know if there are any outstanding issues on this file.
>>
>> I will also review the Canadian ranking, currently my co-editor is James
>> McKinney from Open North.  He has accepted the submissions by I promised to
>> take a little peak.
>>
>> Cheerio
>> Tracey
>>
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