A Coordination Theory Perspective to Improve the Use of Open Data in Policy-Making

Janssen, Marijn

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40358-3_4

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“…While the three parliaments are performing well along with the open government indicators, there are several coordination challenges evident if we look at open data at the national level (see Table 4). These challenges have been identified by [31] and are said to be addressed, although not guaranteed, by three coordination mechanisms: Standardization, plan, and feedback, as discussed earlier in this paper. However, these mechanisms require in-depth coordination-related knowledge [31].…”

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“…These challenges have been identified by [31] and are said to be addressed, although not guaranteed, by three coordination mechanisms: Standardization, plan, and feedback, as discussed earlier in this paper. However, these mechanisms require in-depth coordination-related knowledge [31]. On the national government level, the identified challenges are mostly related to a lack of central organization.…”

Section: Participation Open Dialoguementioning

confidence: 99%

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Parliamentary Open Data in Scandinavia

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This article presents a case study on the use of open data in the Scandinavian parliaments (Norway, Sweden, and Denmark). While the three countries have all opened the gates and provided access to data—for example, on the voting in parliament, debates, and notes from meetings in committees—the uptake and use of data outside the parliaments is limited. While journalists and academia are users of the open data, hackathons and third-party portals are at an explorative level. Still, there are indicators that hackathons can enhance democracy, and parliamentary data can increase political transparency.

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Section: Participation Open Dialoguementioning

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Parliamentary Open Data in Scandinavia

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“…In the old data publication process there was a lack of insight in the activities performed by other actors involved in the process, as there was no single manager who had a complete overview of the publishing process and the datasets that were produced within this process. This challenge is explained into detail by Zuiderwijk and Janssen (2013). 4.…”

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“…Feedback loops can help in learning more about the way that datasets are used and about what can be learned from this (Zuiderwijk and Janssen, 2013). E-government initiatives like open data could then have an impact on, for instance, policy-making (Srivastava, 2011) This principle could help in making use of the wisdom of the crowd.…”

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“…They do not have appropriate processes and procedures for opening the data which they have collected or created (Zuiderwijk et al, 2012b). Often the publication of data is not an integral part of the data collection or creation process and it is usually viewed as a separate activity which is not integrated in the daily procedures and routines (Zuiderwijk and Janssen, 2013). Although some helpful guidelines for releasing government data were published in the past (for instance, Pollard, 2011, Kalampokis et al, 2011, these cannot be used to improve the open data publishing process of public organizations.…”

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Design principles for improving the process of publishing open data

Janssen

Choenni

Meijer

2014

Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy

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Abstract• Purpose: Governments create large amounts of data. However, the publication of open data is often cumbersome and there are no standard procedures and processes for opening data. This blocks the easy publication of government data. The purpose of this paper is to derive design principles for improving the open data publishing process of public organizations.• Design/methodology/approach: Action Design Research (ADR) was employed to derive design principles. The literature was used as a foundation, and discussion sessions with civil servants were used to evaluate the usefulness of the principles.• Findings: Barriers preventing easy and low-cost publication of open data were identified and connected to design principles, which can be used to guide the design of an open data publishing process. Five new principles are 1) start thinking about the opening of data at the beginning of the process, 2) develop guidelines, especially about privacy and policy sensitivity of data, 3) provide decision support by integrating insight in the activities of other actors involved in the publishing process, 4) make data publication an integral, well-defined and standardized part of daily procedures and routines, 5) monitor how the published data are reused.• Research limitations/implications: The principles are derived using ADR in a single case. A next step can be to investigate multiple comparative case studies and detail the principles further. We recommend using these principles to develop a reference architecture.• Practical implications: The design principles can be used by public organizations to improve their open data publishing processes. The design principles are derived from practice and discussed with practitioners. The discussions showed that the principles could improve the publication process.

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Opening research data contributes to the citations of related research articles: Evidence from Data in Brief

Tian

Cheng-zhi

et al. 2023

Learned Publishing

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This paper explores the effect of publishing a data paper in the Open Access journal Data in Brief (DIB) on the citation counts of the related research paper. Using regression analysis, citation content analysis and a survey method, we investigate whether research papers with a related data paper have higher citation counts and the potential reasons.After controlling variables that correlate with the citation counts, research papers with a related data paper were found to have higher citation counts than those published in the same issue of the same journal. Next, we explored the causal relationship between the two variables by surveying the corresponding authors of 618 papers who shared datasets in DIB from 2014 to 2021. The results show that the authors acknowledge the benefits of sharing data in DIB, including citation increase and career reputation enhancement. We further explored how the data papers in DIB increase the citations of the related research papers by using citation content analysis. We found that scientists co-cite the data papers and their related research papers for the purpose of reusing the underlying data or portraying a better understanding of the underlying data and related research articles.

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A Coordination Theory Perspective to Improve the Use of Open Data in Policy-Making

Cited by 41 publications

References 24 publications

Parliamentary Open Data in Scandinavia

Parliamentary Open Data in Scandinavia

Design principles for improving the process of publishing open data

Opening research data contributes to the citations of related research articles: Evidence from Data in Brief

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