An International Framework to Promote Access to Data

Open Environmental Data in Developing Countries: Who Benefits?

“…In this regard, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development has developed standards to facilitate access to research data generated from public funding (OECD 2007). Studies have shown that open access to publicly funded data also generates wealth through downstream commercialization of outputs and provides decision makers with facts needed to address complex, often transnational, problems (Arzberger et al 2004). These benefits are gradually being recognized.…”

Is Data Publication the Right Metaphor?

“…Nominally, the data management approaches that emerge from the different worldviews are fully capable of stewarding data according to defined best practice, but the varying perspectives and metaphors focus on different stages of the data life cycle, different audiences, and different challenges. We do not believe that any of the current data management paradigms fully meet all the basic criteria outlined by the ISO standard Open Archival Information System Reference Model (ISO, 2003), the broader guidance of the (ARL, 2007) or other general community guidance (Arzberger et al, 2004;Doorn & Tjalsma, 2007, Parsons et al 2011). …”

Open Data Platforms and Their Usability: Proposing a Framework for Evaluating Citizen Intentions

“…The increase in availability of open data initiatives has been seen as mainly due to the growing pressure imposed by governments on all kinds of public organisations to release their raw data [18]. The key motivators to encourage public organisations for publishing data revolves around government's perception that the open access to publicly-funded data provides: (a) greater economic returns from public investment [11], (b) provides policy-makers with data needed to address complex problems [7], (c) generate wealth through the downstream use of outputs [18], and (d) help involve citizens in analysing large quantities of datasets [30]. In general, the overarching arguments for stimulating open data are highlighted as the increase in political economic growth and the contribution to public values (i.e.…”