TY - GEN
T1 - Open data platforms and their usability: Proposing a framework for evaluating citizen intentions
AU - Kapoor, Kawaljeet
AU - Weerakkody, Vishanth
AU - Sivarajah, Uthayasankar
PY - 2015/11/26
Y1 - 2015/11/26
N2 - Governments across the world are releasing public data in an effort to increase transparency of how public services are managed whilst also enticing citizens to participate in the policy decision-making processes. The channel for making open data available to citizens in the UK is the data.gov.uk platform, which brings together data relating to various public services in one searchable website. The data.gov.uk platform currently offers access to 25,500 datasets that are organized across key public service themes including health, transport, education, environment, and public spending in towns and cities. While the website reports 5,438,159 site visits as of June 2015, the average time spent on the site has been recorded at just 02:12 min per visitor. This raises questions regarding the actual use and usability of open data platforms and the extent to which they fulfill the stated outcomes of open data. In this paper, the authors examine usability issues surrounding open data platforms and propose a framework that can be used to evaluate their usability.
AB - Governments across the world are releasing public data in an effort to increase transparency of how public services are managed whilst also enticing citizens to participate in the policy decision-making processes. The channel for making open data available to citizens in the UK is the data.gov.uk platform, which brings together data relating to various public services in one searchable website. The data.gov.uk platform currently offers access to 25,500 datasets that are organized across key public service themes including health, transport, education, environment, and public spending in towns and cities. While the website reports 5,438,159 site visits as of June 2015, the average time spent on the site has been recorded at just 02:12 min per visitor. This raises questions regarding the actual use and usability of open data platforms and the extent to which they fulfill the stated outcomes of open data. In this paper, the authors examine usability issues surrounding open data platforms and propose a framework that can be used to evaluate their usability.
UR - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-25013-7_21
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-25013-7_21
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-25013-7_21
M3 - Conference publication
SN - 978-3-319-25012-0
VL - 9373
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 261
EP - 271
BT - Open and Big Data Management and Innovation. I3E 2015
PB - Springer
ER -