Article: A method for assessing the degree of openness of Semi-Open Data initiatives: applied to the justice domain Journal: International Journal of Electronic Governance (IJEG) 2022 Vol.14 No.1/2 pp.207 - 235 Abstract: Some public organisations struggle to meet the Open Data requirements fully because their data often have sensitive (personal) information, are of low quality, or have interoperability issues in terms of format and semantics. These restrictions quite often hold for justice domain datasets. In order to be transparent, nevertheless, many of such public organisations do share their data in a way that it partially satisfies the open data requirements. These partially opened datasets do not count as Open Data and, therefore, the efforts that organisations put behind these initiatives are not acknowledged adequately and appropriately. To acknowledge such data opening initiatives, we advocate and describe a method to assess the degree of data openness, as a first step for recognising such so-called Semi-Open Data initiatives. We carry out eight case studies, not only to validate the proposed method, but also to show how the method can be deployed in practice. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

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Title: A method for assessing the degree of openness of Semi-Open Data initiatives: applied to the justice domain

Authors: Mortaza S. Bargh; Sunil Choenni; Ronald Meijer; Sharvin Choenni

Addresses: Research and Documentation Centre (WODC), Ministry of Justice and Security, The Hague, 2596AA, The Netherlands; Rotterdam University of Applies Sciences (RUAS), Research Centre Creating 010, Rotterdam, 3011WN, The Netherlands ' Research and Documentation Centre (WODC), Ministry of Justice and Security, The Hague, 2596AA, The Netherlands; Rotterdam University of Applies Sciences (RUAS), Research Centre Creating 010, Rotterdam, 3011WN, The Netherlands ' Research and Documentation Centre (WODC), Ministry of Justice and Security, The Hague, 2596AA, The Netherlands ' Cegeka, Business Solutions, Zoetermeer, 2719 EK, The Netherlands

Abstract: Some public organisations struggle to meet the Open Data requirements fully because their data often have sensitive (personal) information, are of low quality, or have interoperability issues in terms of format and semantics. These restrictions quite often hold for justice domain datasets. In order to be transparent, nevertheless, many of such public organisations do share their data in a way that it partially satisfies the open data requirements. These partially opened datasets do not count as Open Data and, therefore, the efforts that organisations put behind these initiatives are not acknowledged adequately and appropriately. To acknowledge such data opening initiatives, we advocate and describe a method to assess the degree of data openness, as a first step for recognising such so-called Semi-Open Data initiatives. We carry out eight case studies, not only to validate the proposed method, but also to show how the method can be deployed in practice.

Keywords: assessment; indicator; measurement; method; open data; openness; Semi-Open Data.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEG.2022.123248

International Journal of Electronic Governance, 2022 Vol.14 No.1/2, pp.207 - 235

Received: 11 Oct 2020
Accepted: 01 Mar 2021
Published online: 06 Jun 2022 *

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