[open-government] Guide how to run your gov dataportal

[Irina Bolychevsky]

+1 to data portal best practices guide. ASAP!

>From my perspective the following a key:
- Central aggregation (whether via web input or harvesting) is very useful.
Harvesting allows decentralisation of approval processes.
- Standardisation for vocabularies and/or tags (e.g. spending data always
has a consistent tag)
- Publish reports on how timely the data is to encourage speedy publication
/ registration on the central portal (e.g.
http://data.gov.uk/data/openspending-report/index)
- Ensure your portal has an API to all metadata fields (extra points if
you're compliant with DCIP http://spec.datacatalogs.org/)
- Run link checking reports and hide datasets that contain broken links
until updated to cut down on noise (& inform publishers on need to update).

Irina


On 25 February 2013 11:25, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> There is some material here:
>
> http://opendatahandbook.org/en/how-to-open-up-data/make-it-discoverable.html
>
> But it could definitely be expanded!
>
> Rufus
>
> On 25 February 2013 10:51, Joris Pekel <joris.pekel at okfn.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This weekend during the Open Data Day we worked in Amsterdam on the Open
> > Data Census. We looked for datasets both on a national and a city level.
> > One conclusion was that most of it is there, and it is open (besides
> > government spending which is not available at all...). However, it was
> very
> > hard to find the data. The Dutch national data portal data.overheid.nlwas
> > not a very big help to us.
> >
> > The main issue here seemed to be the randomness of the datasets that are
> > uploaded by civil servants. For example the budgeting of the centre
> district
> > of Amsterdam can be found (about 2010..) but not the other districts. The
> > data is old and links are sometimes dead. Tagging is not done well which
> > also makes finding data very hard. For example postal codes in the
> > Netherlands are part of a larger dataset called BAG (basisregistraties in
> > het geo-domein). This dataset is only to be found when you search for
> BAG,
> > and not when querying 'postcodes'.
> >
> > An other thing is that different groups use their own sites to publish
> data,
> > and not make use of the national one. This means that you have to search
> > about 10 different data portals to find out if the data is there, and can
> > still not be 100% sure.
> >
> > I was therefore wondering if there exists something like a 'basic guide
> how
> > to use a dataportal'. If there is not, I think a blogpost about this with
> > tips would do very well on the OKF main blog. What do people think? worth
> > doing?
> >
> > Thanks, and all the best,
> >
> > Joris
> >
> > --
> > Joris Pekel
> > Community Coordinator
> > Open Knowledge Foundation
> > http://okfn.org/
> > http://twitter.com/jpekel
> >
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