[open-government] Post on the Open Data Census

Thu Feb 28 18:12:42 UTC 2013

Hi Friends,
We did something similar, when we constructed the Data Availability Index of Non DAC Donors in 2011. Please check page 8- 14 in this report http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-social-sciences/government-society/idd/research/aid-data/chapter1.pdf. We cautiously didn’t rank the donors rather colour codified them on the level of data availability i.e. (0-20%, 21-40%, 41-60%, 61%-80% and 81-100%). Comments welcome.  
Best regards,
Pranay

Pranay Sinha
Research Fellow (2011) & PhD Candidate (2011-14)
International Development Department
School of Government & Society
University of Birmingham
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Data integrity is key, but difficult to evaluate. How about level of completeness? Level of detail/granularity?

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Hi Rufus,

Great work on the open data census! A very practical way to compare the core data sets and motivate governments to do more in areas where open data is still limited.

In terms of the scores of countries, I have a number of suggestions:
-       Maybe you shouldn't give equal points for all elements. For example: availability of data should earn the highest number of points. In the case of the Czech Republic they receive five points for their national map, even though it's unclear that the data is actually available.
-       The points scoring system and the color coding do not run parallel, for example: you can have 5 points and get a red color, or you can get 5 points and get an orange color. This is a bit confusing. It might be easier to just use the colors, as everybody understands the traffic light system.
-       It would be nice to have a question on the granularity of data. I.e.: is the data specific enough? Even if the data is available, up to date, machine readable etc. it can be relatively useless if it's not specific enough.
-       A question on availability of meta-data for context and comprehension would be good.
-       Would it be an idea to incorporate the last two criteria of Tim Berners-Lee's 5 star system?
-       At our office, the table won't load. There might be a problem with internet explorer compatibility, but it could also be an internal system problem for us.

I hope you find these suggestions helpful. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Best regards,

Ina de Haan and colleagues from the Netherlands Court of Audit

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Onderwerp: [open-government] Post on the Open Data Census

Hi All,

Just wanted to let folks know that a big post today has gone up today about the Open Data Census and work on it so far:

<http://blog.okfn.org/2013/02/20/open-data-census-tracking-the-state-of-open-data-around-the-world/>

It includes an update on all the contribution so far from members of the working group, some plans for what we do next including work on the Census this Saturday at Open Data Day (<http://okfn.org/events/open-data-day-2013/census>).

Regards,

Rufus

## Intro to the Post

<http://blog.okfn.org/2013/02/20/open-data-census-tracking-the-state-of-open-data-around-the-world/>

Recent years have seen a huge expansion in open data activity around the world. This is very welcome, but at the same time it is now increasingly difficult to assess if, and where, progress is being made.

To address this, we started the [Open Data Census][census] in order to track the state of open data globally. The results so far, covering more than 35 countries and 200 datasets, are now available online at <http://census.okfn.org/>. We'll be building this up even more during Open Data Day this weekend.

This post explains why we started the census and why this matters now.
This includes the importance of quality (not just quantity) of data, the state of the census so far, and some immediate next steps - such as expanding the census to the city level and developing an "open data index" to give a single measure of open data progress.

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