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November 4, 2013

Open Data Index

Filed under: Government,Government Data,Open Data — Patrick Durusau @ 7:48 pm

Open Data Index by Armin Grossenbacher.

From the post:

There are lots of indexes.

The most famous one may be the Index Librorum Prohibitorum listing books prohibited by the cathoilic church. It contained eminent scientists and intellectuals (see the list in Wikipedia) and was abolished after more than 400 years in 1966 only.

Open Data Index

One index everybody would like to be registered in and this with a high rank is the Open Data Index.

‘An increasing number of governments have committed to open up data, but how much key information is actually being released? …. Which countries are the most advanced and which are lagging in relation to open data? The Open Data Index has been developed to help answer such questions by collecting and presenting information on the state of open data around the world – to ignite discussions between citizens and governments.’

I haven’t seen the movie review guide that appeared in Our Sunday Visitor in years but when I was in high school it was the best movie guide around. Just pick the ones rated as morally condemned. 😉

There are two criteria I don’t see mentioned for rating open data:

  1. How easy/hard is it to integrate a particular data set with other data from the same source or organization?
  2. Is the data supportive, neutral or negative with regard to established government policies?

Do you know of any open data sets where those questions are used to rate them?

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