[open-government] [School-of-data] Help Defining Dataset Definition and Quality Parameters

Mon Apr 29 12:09:38 UTC 2013

Hey Matan, (replying via open-govenment which I suspect is best place for
this)

I've recently been doing some work to develop a research tool for use in
the Web Index, and a multi-country research project looking at open data (
http://www.opendataresearch.org) which uses a ten-question scale to assess
whether datasets are open or not.

You can find the draft at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z-T3QmmZTmWkFrKySi-x_EBDVqIt6Orr6z-C58gPGeg/editas
a google doc.

The 10-point framework is based on the questions used in the Open Knowledge
Foundation's open data census, and includes a section on mapping between
the 10 questions and the Open Knowledge Definition. I've tried to document
each question for a non-technical reviewer to be able to use it - so any
feedback on where things are not clear (you can leave comments directly on
the document) would be incredibly useful.

Discussions in the recent workshop we held for the Open Data Research
network also highlighted that whilst question sets like this one capture
how 'open' a dataset is in the abstract, questions of quality may be more
related to the kind of data in question. For example, as this paper (
http://www.gpopai.usp.br/IMG/pdf/Craveiro-ICDS2013.pdf) argues, principles
for assessing quality need to be tailored for assessing e.g. budget data
quality.

All best wishes

Tim

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Matan Rotman <matan.rotman at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> My name is Matan Rotman, and I'm a student at Hebrew University majoring
> Political Science. As a part of my studying, I'm writing a paper that tries
> to understand whether the Israel open data program is efficient
> (Collaberative-wise), and if not, why not (hence, why wouldn't
> administrative dept. won't cooperate with the program). The first thing I
> need to do for that, though, is to understand if the datasets that are on
> the website are of quality or not. As i'm not a technical guy, I could use
> some help understanding what would be considered as the definition of a
> dataset (hopefully, as particular as possible), and more important, I could
> really use for some help with defining quality parameters so I could
> measure the quality of the different files and sets uploaded.
>
> The website is at http://data.gov.il (all in Hebrew though), and I'd love
> any help on the subject possible
>
> P.S
> I hope this is the right place to ask, and I'm going to ask also at Open
> government mailing list, so I apologize if you get my message twice.
>
> Best Regards,
> Matan
>
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