[open-government] Definitions of Open Government and Open Government Data

Sun Apr 7 18:48:23 UTC 2013

There are always the "8 Principles of Open Government Data"

http://www.opengovdata.org/home/8principles

I think the problem with these definitions is, that the ideal data and
the not so ideal data are reside at the same repositories.

Am 07.4.2013 20:34, schrieb James McKinney:
>> But what about Open Government Data? I think it would be too harsh to
>> define it as Open Data provided by the government, because there is so
>> much government data out there which is not open, but accessible
>> nonetheless.
> 
> I think that is precisely how most people would define it, however. If you want to talk about publicly available government data more generally, maybe "publicly available government data" would be a suitable identifier.
> 
> James
> 
> 
> On 2013-04-07, at 1:52 PM, Konrad Reiche wrote:
> 
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I am writing my thesis in Computer Science in the context of Open
>> Government Data. Lately, I am dealing a lot with the definitions of
>> Open Data, Open Government and Open Government Data.
>>
>> I would say, Open Data is more or less quite well-defined, but I have
>> my problems with narrowing it down for Open Government and Open
>> Government Data. Recently I have started to read "Open Government,
>> Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice" published
>> by O'Reilly Media. For Open Government it says:
>>
>> "What is open government? In the most basic sense, it’s the notion that
>> the people have the right to access the documents and proceedings of
>> government."
>>
>> But what about Open Government Data? I think it would be too harsh to
>> define it as Open Data provided by the government, because there is so
>> much government data out there which is not open, but accessible
>> nonetheless.
>>
>> So I would rather read it as ((Open Goverment) Data), data provided by
>> the government, where people have the right to access them.
>>
>> Does someone know whether these terms are discussed somewhere in more
>> detail, something that I could reference?
>>
>> Best,
>> Konrad
>>
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