TY - JOUR
T1 - Critical Factors for Open Data Publication and Use
T2 - A Comparison of City-level, Regional, and Transnational Cases
AU - susha, Iryna
AU - Zuiderwijk-van Eijk, Anneke
AU - Charalabidis, Yannis
AU - Parycek, Peter
AU - Janssen, Marijn
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - There is a lack of research concerning the factors influencing the success or failure of open data initiatives. Based on the results of two workshops, we provide a list of 47 success factors for open data publication and 18 success factors for open data use. We further use three case studies (ENGAGE, Open NY, and Open Vienna) to examine how the criticality of factors varies depending on the geographical level and other characteristics of the open data initiative. The cases, representing open data initiatives at city, regional, and transnational levels, point at different categories of critical success factors. Our key conclusions are that 1) the criticality of the factors depends considerably on the context of the open data initiative; 2) a number of success factors appear to be more universally applicable than others; 3) the factors that are critical to all three cases are derived from many different success factor categories, which suggests that open data initiatives should adopt an interdisciplinary approach, and 4) further work is needed to detail the success factors for open data publication and use in other contexts.
AB - There is a lack of research concerning the factors influencing the success or failure of open data initiatives. Based on the results of two workshops, we provide a list of 47 success factors for open data publication and 18 success factors for open data use. We further use three case studies (ENGAGE, Open NY, and Open Vienna) to examine how the criticality of factors varies depending on the geographical level and other characteristics of the open data initiative. The cases, representing open data initiatives at city, regional, and transnational levels, point at different categories of critical success factors. Our key conclusions are that 1) the criticality of the factors depends considerably on the context of the open data initiative; 2) a number of success factors appear to be more universally applicable than others; 3) the factors that are critical to all three cases are derived from many different success factor categories, which suggests that open data initiatives should adopt an interdisciplinary approach, and 4) further work is needed to detail the success factors for open data publication and use in other contexts.
KW - open data
KW - success
KW - success factors
KW - level
KW - taxonomy
KW - e-government
KW - case study
UR - http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c8dfd3d7-56c9-4e47-a054-e93e4c5dfaab
M3 - Article
SN - 2075-9517
VL - 7
SP - 94
EP - 115
JO - JeDEM eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government
JF - JeDEM eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government
IS - 2
ER -