Tracking the Evolution of OGD Portals: A Maturity Model

Abstract

Since its inception, open government data (OGD) as a free re-useable object has attracted the interest of researchers and practitioners, civil servants, citizens and businesses for different reasons in each target group. This study was designed to aggregate the research outcomes and developments through the recent years towards illustrating the evolutionary path of OGD portals, by presenting an analysis of their characteristics in terms of a maturity model. A four-step methodology has been followed in order to analyse the literature and construct the maturity model. The results point out the two greater dimensions of OGD portals, naming traditional and advanced evolving within three generations. The developed maturity model will guide policy makers by firstly identify the current level of their organisation and secondly design an efficient implementation to the required state.

Enhancing transparency through open government data: the case of data portals and their features and capabilities

“…In line with other authors such as Bertot et al (2010), Glassey (2017), Janssen et al (2017), Klein et al (2018), Lourenço (2015), Matheus and Janssen (2020), Safarov et al (2017), or Saxena and Muhammad (2018), this study emphasizes the importance of transparency effects of OGD and open data portals. In addition, the identified features and capabilities complement and extend previous studies on this topic such as Alexopoulos et al (2017), Bogdanović-Dinić et al (2014), Chatfield and Reddick (2017), Máchová et al (2018), or Thorsby et al (2017). In order to effectively identify, disclose, and reuse OGD for transparency purposes, several conditions and requirements must be considered and embedded in the design of any open data portal.…”

“…The five-point Likert scale (from 1 5 extremely unimportant to 5 5 extremely important) is utilized to determine the suitability of selected feature-related transparency mechanisms including suitability for different groups of users regarding their skills. This perspective deals with requirements of different roles in which data users may interact with the portal (Alexopoulos et al,2017;Attard et al, 2016;Ruijer et al, 2017) Beginnerit is expected that the user can do basic browsing, text entry, searching and filtering content, and downloading a file.…”

“…Thus, a web content analysis (feature analysis) approach is used to scan through the selected national open data portals in order to identify them. To maintain a high reliability and validity of the approach, a literature study of relevant empirical studies concerning open data portals was conducted, including Alexopoulos et al (2017), Attard et al (2016), Chatfield and Reddick (2017), Klein et al (2018), Lourenço (2015), Máchová and Lněnička (2017), Máchová et al (2018), Nikiforova and McBride (2021), Ruijer et al (2017), Thorsby et al (2017) and Zuiderwijk et al (2013). It is important to point out that open data portals on the national level are compared since they provide rich features and capabilities.…”

Improving the Sustainability of Open Government Data

“…OGD could advance the democratic process, promote sustainable development, and thus could have a political impact [20]. An enterprise information system could directly access the OGD platform and process the data to create new products, provide new services, and create new jobs, economic growth, and enterprise innovation to generate economic value [60]. For example, using the government's open traffic data, enterprises could develop a "mobile bus" application, and enterprises could gain economic benefits.…”

“…Third, the hypothesis that every dimension has the same weight seems unreasonable because of conflicts of influence among the dimensions, or because the clusters are different in the real world [73]. Accordingly, the DEMATEL-based ANP (DANP) was proposed by Tzeng et al [60,61,74] to solve these problems. The DANP method is used to solve real-world problems with feedback and interaction between criteria or dimensions, and to determine the affecting weights [61][62][63]75,76].…”