Workflow Provenance Metadata to Enhance Reuse of South America Drainage Datasets

Open Government Data: Usage trends and metadata quality

“…On the other hand, knowledge about Open Data use is scarce, with few studies addressing citizen usage of OGD 16,17 . These observations were anecdotally reinforced in the course of our past activities 18 , where, having accessed to various Open Data portals, we often noticed that much of their datasets are I http://www.oecd.org/gov/digital-government/open-government-data.htm II No page -Retrieved online: https://www.govtech.com/data/ Are-Open-Data-Efforts-Working.html little used. For these reasons, in 19 we have provided a first evaluation of the use of OGD datasets, based on a sample of national portals.…”

“…The six Conformance metrics assess the syntactical validity of the access URI, the contact email address and URI, and the date format; the licence conformance is checked by analysing a list of licence descriptions provided by the Open Definition; 16 the validity of the file format is checked against a list of registered formats and media types supplied by IANA. 17 As to the three Data Open metrics they ascertain the data sets compliance to the Open (Knowledge) Definiton, 18 assessing if the data sets are supplied in a machinereadable and open format, and according to an open licence.…”

“…However, knowledge about Open Data use is scarce, with a few studies addressing citizen usage of OGD [16,17]. These observations were anecdotally reinforced in the course of our past activities [18], where, having accessed to various Open Data portals, we often noticed that much of their data sets are little used. For these reasons, in Quarati and De Martino [19], we have provided a first evaluation of the use of OGD data sets, based on a sample of national portals.…”