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User-centered Usability Analysis of 41 Open Government Data Portals
<p>The data were collected during the user-centered analysis of usability of 41 open government data portals including EU27, applying a common methodology to them, considering aspects such as specification of open data set, feedback and requests, further broken down into 14 sub-criteria. Each aspect was assessed using a three-level Likert scale (fulfilled - 3, partially fulfilled - 2, and unfulfilled – 1), that belongs to the acceptability tasks. This dataset summarises a total of 1640 protocols obtained during the analysis of the selected portals carried out by 40 participants, who were selected on a voluntary basis. This is complemented with 4 summaries of these protocols, which include calculated average scores by category, aspect and country. These data allow comparative analysis of the national open data portals, help to find the key challenges that can negatively impact users’ experience, and identifies portals that can be considered as an example for the less successful open data portals.</p>
An Integrated Usability Framework for Evaluating Open Government Data Portals and Analysis of EU and GCC OGD Portals
<p><span>This dataset contains data collected during a study (<em><strong>"<a href="https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2403/2403.08451.pdf">An Integrated Usability Framework for Evaluating Open Government Data Portals: Comparative Analysis of EU and GCC Countries</a>"</strong></em>) conducted by Fillip Molodtsov and Anastasija Nikiforova (University of Tartu).</span></p> <p><span> </span><span>It being made public both to act as supplementary data for the paper and in order for other researchers to use these data in their own work potentially contributing to the improvement of current data ecosystems and develop user-friendly, collaborative, robust, and sustainable open data portals.</span></p> <p><span>***Purpose of the study***</span></p> <p><span>This paper develops an integrated framework for evaluating OGD portal effectiveness that accommodates user diversity (regardless of their data literacy and language), evaluates collaboration and participation, and the ability of users to explore and understand the data provided through them. </span></p> <p><span>The framework is validated by applying it to 33 national portals across European Union (EU) and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, as a result of which we rank OGD portals, identify some good practices that lower-performing portals can learn from, and common shortcomings.</span></p> <p><span>***Methodology***</span></p> <p><span>(1) systematic literature review to establish a knowledge base and identify frameworks have been used to evaluate OGD portals, we conducted a systematic literature review - Dataset_ Usability_Framework_SLR;</span></p> <p><span>(2) development of the Integrated Usability Framework for Evaluating Open Government Data Portals, which content is based on the outputs of the first step, along with selected articles of experts in portal design, and an exploratory assessment of the French, Irish, Estonian and Spanish portals - Dataset_Integrated_Usability_Framework;</span></p> <p><span>(3) data collection, that is a completion of the protocol developed in the previous step by analysing 34 national OGD portals of the EU and GCC countries. When all individual protocols were collected, the total score are calculated using the weighting system. The average scores are calculated for the EU and GCC. The portals are ranked. The top portals (best performers) are determined for each dimension - Dataset_EU_GCC_OGDportal_Usability_results_clustering.</span></p> <p><span>(4) identification of relationships and patterns among different portals based on their performance metrics as a result of the cluster analysis. By calculating the average dimensional scores of portals from both types of clusters, their performance across multiple dimensions is evaluated - Dataset_EU_GCC_OGDportal_Usability_results_clustering.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><em><span>For more details see Molodtsov, F., Nikiforova, A. (2024). “An Integrated Usability Framework for Evaluating Open Government Data Portals: Comparative Analysis of EU and GCC Countries”. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (DGO 2024), June 11--14, 2024, Taipei, Taiwan, 10.1145/3657054.3657159</span></em></strong></p> <p><span>***Format of the file***</span></p> <p><span>.xls, .csv</span></p> <p><span>***Licenses or restrictions***</span></p> <p><span>CC-BY</span></p>
Smarter open government data for Society 5.0: analysis of 51 OGD portals
<p>This dataset contains data collected during a study <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/s21155204">"Smarter open government data for Society 5.0: are your open data smart enough"</a> (<em>Sensors</em>. 2021; 21(15):5204) conducted by Anastasija Nikiforova (University of Latvia).<br> It being made public both to act as supplementary data for "Smarter open government data for Society 5.0: are your open data smart enough" paper and in order for other researchers to use these data in their own work.</p> <p>The data in this dataset were collected in the result of the inspection of 60 countries and their OGD portals (total of 51 OGD portal in May 2021) to find out whether they meet the trends of Society 5.0 and Industry 4.0 obtained by conducting an analysis of relevant OGD portals.</p> <p>Each portal has been studied starting with a search for a data set of interest, i.e. “real-time”, “sensor” and “covid-19”, follwing by asking a list of additional questions.<br> These questions were formulated on the basis of combination of (1) crucial open (government) data-related aspects, including open data principles, success factors, recent studies on the topic, PSI Directive etc., (2) trends and features of Society 5.0 and Industry 4.0, (3) elements of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use Model (UTAUT).</p> <p>The method used belongs to typical / daily tasks of open data portals sometimes called “usability test” – keywords related to a research question are used to filter data sets, i.e. “real-time”, “real time” and “real time”, “sensor”, covid”, “covid-19”, “corona”, “coronavirus”, “virus”. In most cases, “real-time”, “sensor” and “covid” keywords were sufficient.<br> The examination of the respective aspects for less user-friendly portals was adapted to particular case based on the portal or data set specifics, by checking:<br> 1. are the open data related to the topic under question ({sensor; real-time; Covid-19}) published, i.e. available?<br> 2. are these data available in a machine-readable format?<br> 3. are these data current, i.e. regularly updated? Where the criteria on the currency depends on the nature of data, i.e. Covid-19 data on the number of cases per day is expected to be updated daily, which won’t be sufficient for real-time data as the title supposes etc.<br> 4. is API ensured for these data? having most importance for real-time and sensor data;<br> 5. have they been published in a timely manner? which was verified mainly for Covid-19 related data. The timeliness is assessed by comparing the dates of the first case identified in a given country and the first release of open data on this topic.<br> 6. what is the total number of available data sets?<br> 7. does the open government data portal provides use-cases / showcases? <br> 8. does the open government portal provide an opportunity to gain insight into the popularity of the data, i.e. does the portal provide statistics of this nature, such as the number of views, downloads, reuses, rating etc.?<br> 9. is there an opportunity to provide a feedback, comment, suggestion or complaint?<br> 10. (9a) is the artifact, i.e. feedback, comment, suggestion or complaint, visible to other users?</p> <p>***Format of the file***<br> .xls, .ods, .csv (for the first spreadsheet only)</p> <p>***Licenses or restrictions***<br> CC-BY</p> <p>For more info, see README.txt</p>
Usability of Open Data Portals
<p><span>This dataset reports on the usability of Open Data Portals as reported by the European public. Knowledge of open science and data concepts is also reported. </span></p>
Resource Metadata Harvested from Government and Research Open Data Portals
<p>This dataset consists of resource metadata harvested from the APIs of hundreds of government and research data portals from all over the world. This dataset was harvested between the 13<sup>th</sup> and 15<sup>th</sup> of September 2018. The metadata harvested from these portals was translated to a single metadata format (see <em>metadata_format.odt</em>). An overview of all harvested domains is given in <em>portal_list.txt</em>.</p> <p>The harvested data is divided into five gzipped json-lines files, based on the ‘type’ of the resource that is derived from the data of the APIs:</p> <ul> <li><em>dataset_metadata.jsonl.gz</em>: Resources classified as a Dataset, or subsets of dataset (e.g. Dataset:Image and Dataset:Audio) [6 246 250 resources]</li> <li><em>document_metadata.jsonl.gz</em>: Resources classified as a Document, or subset of document (e.g. Document:Paper:Conference and Document:Book) [15 626 541 resources]</li> <li><em>software_metadata.jsonl.gz</em>: Resources classified as Sofware (including Software:Model) [42 036 resources]</li> <li><em>service_metadata.jsonl.gz</em>: Resources classified as a service (e.g. WMS, APIs) [1257 resources]</li> <li><em>other_metadata.jsonl.gz</em>: Resources of which the ‘type’ could not be determined from the data the API returned. This set still contains many datasets [1 502 979 resources]</li> </ul>
Cities' open data portals: Current Status
<p>This is the whole sample of our survey regarding the current status of cities' open data portals. Asking data users from several backgrounds this survey aimed to determine the most used features, most important barriers, and data users perceptions regarding open geographic data available in cities' open data portals. Our goal was studying the way stakeholders especially developers and analysts looking and reuse geographic data in cities.</p> <p>This survey has 21 questions, mostly multiple choice questions, but also include open-questions, the study was entirely voluntary and publicly shared, having more replies in latino American countries and Spain. Most of the replies are in Spanish.</p> <p> </p>
Categories of Datasets Offered by Current Open Data Portals
<p>This dataset lists categories of open datasets from 40 European open data catalogs. The 40 European data catalogues were taken from four countries (France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom) at a rate of 10 per country. These categories are an indicator of the topics of interests in the respective countries (back in 2016), the types of questions data publishers assume users will ask, and ultimately the types of questions citizens can ask.</p>
Associated data underlying the article "Assessment of the Croatian Open Data Portal Using User-Oriented Metrics"
<p>Associated data underlying the article </p> <p>Miletić, A.; Kuveždić Divjak, A.; Welle Donker, F. Assessment of the Croatian Open Data Portal Using User-Oriented Metrics. <em>ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf.</em> <strong>2023</strong>, <em>12</em>, 185. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12050185">https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12050185</a></p> <p>Article Abstract:<br> Open data portals are web services that serve as a central access point for all government-published open data and can exist at local, regional, national, and international levels. They are an important element of most open data initiatives that have enabled a large amount of government data to be widely available. However, data quantity and quality are not the only aspects that should be considered when publishing data. To improve the reusability of data and to achieve greater impact and benefits from open data, it is important to consider user-oriented aspects of the portal management, discovery, and use of data (e.g., organizing the portal in a user-centric way, providing accurate metadata, using a standardized and open data format, etc.). In this paper, we adopted the metrics proposed by the European Commission to assess compliance of the Croatian Open Data Portal with 10 user-oriented principles that open data portals should implement in terms of sustainability and added value. While the results show the government’s efforts in publishing data, some aspects such as better collaboration with data providers and other data portals, offering different visualization tools, etc. need to be improved to achieve active use and impact.</p> <p>Keywords: open data; open data portal; assessment; user experience; data reuse</p>
Analysing the Characteristics of Open Government Data Portals in Croatia
<p>Open government data (OGD) paradigm gained momentum in the recent years resulting in numerous OGD initiatives. These initiatives assured reliable and faster development of open data ecosystem on different administration levels. Diversity of government organizations dealing with different kinds of data, however, resulted in a variety of OGD initiatives. As a direct result, OGD portals developed through these initiatives show different functionalities, characteristics, and quality of provided data and services. This paper therefore aims to provide a better insight into the similarities and differences of data portals by analyzing their characteristics from thematical, semantical, functional, and technological perspective. The methodology used relies on the framework previously developed and implemented in Greece in 2015, consisting of multiple indicators assessing different characteristics of portals, in each of four perspectives. Results of the assessment show Croatian portals have well developed functionalities but also have limitations preventing data reuse. These limitations are mostly related to data discovery and absence of metadata and licenses by the publishing institutions.</p>
(re)Use Indications of High Energy Physics related Research Data and Software in CERN Open Data Portal
<p>This dataset contains High Energy Physics related research data and software (re)use indications (formal citations, informal mentions) in scholarly works. All research data and software resources were identified and extracted from CERN Open Data Portal. The (re)use indications were identified by a mix of approaches: use of citation discovery services and multiple search approaches in Google Scholar. All identified research data and software (re)use indications were classified according to their purpose, location, and elements.</p> <p>The data was collected in 2018 for a PhD thesis on research data and software (re)use indications in scholarly works.</p>
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