Open data portal
An open data portal is any online platform which supports users in accessing collections of open data. Typical open data portals present the data of the organization which hosts the portal.
Government organizations sometimes host open data portals as a way of meeting their regional freedom of information legal requirements. Another common use case is open data portals for sharing data in some field of research for the benefit of other researchers.
Characteristics
The simplest open data portal is list of datasets with instructions for how anyone can access and use that data.{{cite web |last1=Dodds |first1=Leigh |title=What is a data portal? |url=https://blog.ldodds.com/2015/10/13/what-is-a-data-portal/ |website=Lost Boy |language=en |date=13 October 2015}}
Characteristics of good open data portals include the use of open standards, access to data without human intervention, and analytics about what data people use.{{cite web |author1=koordinates |title=The ten features you need from your open data portal |url=https://koordinates.com/guides/ten-features-you-need-your-open-data-portal/ |website=koordinates.com |accessdate=30 December 2019 |language=en}}
Open data portals contain information of interest to citizens, business owners, nonprofit administrators, researchers, and journalists.{{cite web |last1=Warner |first1=Tiana |title=Guide to Open Data: Using it, Sharing it, and Creating a Portal |url=https://www.safe.com/blog/2016/05/open-data-portals/ |website=Safe Software |language=en-CA |date=10 May 2016}}
Uses
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A 2012 paper reported that government organizations which set up open data portals often find it challenging to predict what sorts of users will want the data and how they will use it.{{cite journal |last1=Janssen |first1=Marijn |last2=Charalabidis |first2=Yannis |last3=Zuiderwijk |first3=Anneke |title=Benefits, Adoption Barriers and Myths of Open Data and Open Government |journal=Information Systems Management |date=September 2012 |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=258–268 |doi=10.1080/10580530.2012.716740|url=http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:952c8b0e-c55e-4443-9b41-14c38806a840 }}
In the European Union there is a central open data portal which connects anyone to the regional and subject specific data portals for various matters of government.{{cite web |title=Open data portals |url=https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/open-data-portals |website=Digital Single Market - European Commission |language=en |date=2 August 2013}}
In the United States all the states and many cities offer open data portals.{{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=Meta S. |title=States Offer Information Resources: 50+ Open Data Portals |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/metabrown/2018/04/30/us-states-offer-information-resources-50-open-data-portals |website=Forbes |language=en |date=30 April 2018}}{{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=Meta S. |title=City Governments Making Public Data Easier To Get: 90 Municipal Open Data Portals |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/metabrown/2018/04/29/city-governments-making-public-data-easier-to-get-90-municipal-open-data-portals |website=Forbes |language=en |date=28 April 2018}}
A report on the open data portal emphasized the need to develop the culture of appreciation of open data.{{cite book|last1=Verma|first1=Neeta|last2=Gupta|first2=M. P.|title=Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance - ICEGOV '13|chapter=Open government data|year=2013|pages=338–341|doi=10.1145/2591888.2591949|isbn=9781450324564}}
A review of open data portals in Australia found variation in what the portals offered and how they operated.{{cite journal|last1=Chatfield|first1=Akemi Takeoka|last2=Reddick|first2=Christopher G.|title=A longitudinal cross-sector analysis of open data portal service capability: The case of Australian local governments|journal=Government Information Quarterly|volume=34|issue=2|year=2017|pages=231–243|issn=0740-624X|doi=10.1016/j.giq.2017.02.004}}
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