Towards Transparent Data Access With Context Awareness

Abstract

Open-data research is an important factor accelerating the production and analysis of scientific results as well as worldwide collaboration; still, very little data is being shared at scale. The aim of this article is to analyze existing data-access solutions along with their usage limitations. After analyzing the existing solutions and data-access stakeholder needs, the authors propose their own vision of a data-access model.

Research on Transparent Access Technology of Government Big Data

“…It connects the application layer with the data layer, encompassing data access interfaces and data access objects, allowing applications to access different database management systems and perform operations such as connecting, adding, deleting, and querying data in a singletype database [9]. From the perspectives of users and service providers, the research on existing data access technologies primarily focuses on the following aspects: the demand for accessing data anytime and anywhere [10], the need for efficient access to large amounts of data [11], the comprehensive requirement for data and storage management [12], the demand for easy data sharing [13], the requirement for dynamic data access [14], and ensuring data security [15,16]. Data access technologies have evolved from initially only being able to access relational databases to now being capable of accessing various data sources, including relational databases, file directories, text content, spreadsheets, and emails, among others.…”

“…In the field of e-government, in response to the governance challenges brought by massive government data and in line with the trend of big data and cloud computing, the development of e-government data governance based on transparent access technology is still in its early stages. China is actively promoting e-government data governance and transparent access to government data in the context of advanced information technologies such as big data, cloud computing, blockchain, and artificial intelligence [10,23].…”

“…Wrzeszcz et al [10] proposed a context-aware global data transparent access model that can automatically determine access and storage methods to adapt to user needs based on specific types of data access requests after analyzing existing solutions and the needs of data access stakeholders, such as ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability), BASE [41], reliability, and efficiency requirements. Fig.…”