Application-based Framework for Analysis, Monitoring and Evaluation of National Open Data Portals

Abstract

Open Government Data (OGD) portals are considered of significant national importance towards transparency and accountability improvement. The continuous publication of data in OGD portals introduces the need for highquality data and the qualitative portal itself. This paper aims to address the data quality issues through a framework composed of several components aimed at measuring and monitoring the OGD portals in an automated way. Through this proposed framework, is intended to monitor and evaluate OGD quality, respectively OGD portals, and to show their progress/regress based on accumulated scores for different periods. The advantage of the proposed framework is the compatibility with any OGD Portal due to its flexibility of integration. The integration interface consists of only a few basic metrics but is necessary that almost the OGD portal possesses and can produce very compressive results. The other advantage is the possibility of extraction of collected data for further analysis and the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) for prediction purposes to point out how the OGD portals will stand in the next period.

Usability and Accessibility of Open Government Data Portals of Countries Worldwide

“…This study attempted to fill this void by suggesting an integrated evaluation framework incorporating the usefulness and availability of OGD portals and assessing the performance of OGD portals in various countries. Prior studies have investigated the automated diagnostics of OGD portals (e.g., Nascimento et al, 2018;Raca et al, 2021) or e-government portals (e.g., Bouzas-Lorenzo & Mahou-Lago, 2015;Dominic et al, 2010Dominic et al, , 2011Jaeger, 2006;Jati & Dominic, 2009;Olalere & Lazar, 2011). Nonetheless, this study amalgamates both the usability and accessibility of the OGD portals and also gives the intel of greatly valued variables in each dimension to focus on to enhance the overall performance of the OGD portals.…”

“…The second type is heuristic testing, where the experts audit the accessibility of a website based on the guidelines. In automated accessibility testing, various sophisticated evaluation tools are used to assess the websites (For example, Nascimento et al, 2018;Raca et al, 2021). Some studies have used a combination of automated and non-automated methods (For example, Jaeger, 2006;Olalere & Lazar, 2011).…”

“…It is understood that the literature provides enough evidence on the application of website evaluation techniques, especially automated methods (For example, Bouzas-Lorenzo & Mahou-Lago, 2015; Dominic et al, 2010Dominic et al, , 2011Jaeger, 2006;Jati & Dominic, 2009;Olalere & Lazar, 2011), to evaluate and compare e-government websites. However, studies on the evaluation of OGD portals are meagre (For example, Nascimento et al, 2018;Raca et al, 2021). Moreover, the existing frameworks focus more on legal compliance to the accessibility of e-government websites only.…”

A Framework for Evaluation and Improvement of Open Government Data Quality: Application to the Western Balkans National Open Data Portals

“…Veljković et al (2014) proposed and implemented a benchmark for evaluating OGD through transparency, participation, collaboration, and openness of data. Raca et al (2021) have developed an application-based framework that considers OGD quality evaluation using two dimensions and several metrics, but it does not evaluate the quality of data itself. An Analytical framework for Assessing the OGD has been proposed earlier by Ubaldi (2013).…”