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

Sun Apr 7 19:14:36 UTC 2013

Also see
http://opensource.com/government/10/12/what-%E2%80%9Copen-data%E2%80%9D-means-%E2%80%93-and-what-it-doesn%E2%80%99tand
in particular the Venn diagram.

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On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Konrad Reiche <konrad.reiche at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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