TY - GEN
T1 - An Evaluation Framework for Linked Open Statistical Data in Government
AU - Matheus, Ricardo
AU - Janssen, Marijn
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Demographic, economic, social and other datasets are often used in policy-making processes. These types of statistical data are opened more and more by governments, which enables the use of these datasets by the public. However, statistical data needs often to combine different datasets. Data cubes can be used to combine datasets and are a multi-dimensional array of values typically used to describe time series of geographical areas. While Linked Open Statistical Data (LOSD) cube software is still in an initial stage of maturity, there is a need for evaluation the software platforms used to process this open data. Yet there is a lack of evaluation methods. The objective of this ongoing research paper is to identify functional requirements for open data cubes infrastructures. Eight main processes are identified and a list of 23 functional requirements are used to evaluate the OpenCube platform. The evaluation results of a LOSD platform show that many functions are not automated and need to be manually executed. We recommend the further integration of the building blocks in the platform to reduce the barriers for the use of datasets by the public.
AB - Demographic, economic, social and other datasets are often used in policy-making processes. These types of statistical data are opened more and more by governments, which enables the use of these datasets by the public. However, statistical data needs often to combine different datasets. Data cubes can be used to combine datasets and are a multi-dimensional array of values typically used to describe time series of geographical areas. While Linked Open Statistical Data (LOSD) cube software is still in an initial stage of maturity, there is a need for evaluation the software platforms used to process this open data. Yet there is a lack of evaluation methods. The objective of this ongoing research paper is to identify functional requirements for open data cubes infrastructures. Eight main processes are identified and a list of 23 functional requirements are used to evaluate the OpenCube platform. The evaluation results of a LOSD platform show that many functions are not automated and need to be manually executed. We recommend the further integration of the building blocks in the platform to reduce the barriers for the use of datasets by the public.
UR - http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6ae8a10d-832e-4101-8bf9-ee03ec1367e6
UR - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-64677-0_21
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-64677-0_21
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-64677-0_21
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 978-3-319-64676-3
VL - 10428
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 255
EP - 263
BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronic Government
PB - Springer
T2 - 16th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2017
Y2 - 4 September 2017 through 7 September 2017
ER -