Mining Open Government Data Used in Scientific Research | An Yan, Nicholas Weber | arXiv

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Summary:

An Yan, Nicholas Weber (Submitted on 8 Feb 2018 (v1), last revised 2 Mar 2018 (this version, v2))

"In the following paper, we describe results from mining citations, mentions, and links to open government data (OGD) in peer-reviewed literature. We inductively develop a method for categorizing how OGD are used by different research communities, and provide descriptive statistics about the publication years, publication outlets, and OGD sources. Our results demonstrate that, 1. The use of OGD in research is steadily increasing from 2009 to 2016; 2. Researchers use OGD from 96 different open government data portals, with data.gov.uk and data.gov being the most frequent sources; and, 3.Contrary to previous findings, we provide evidence suggesting that OGD from developing nations, notably India and Kenya, are being frequently used to fuel scientific discoveries. The findings of this paper contribute to ongoing research agendas aimed at tracking the impact of open government data initiatives, and provides an initial description of how open government data are valuable to diverse scientific research communities.

Comments: Accepted to iConference 2018

Subjects: Computers and Society (cs.CY); Databases (cs.DB) Cite as: arXiv:1802.03074 [cs.CY]"

Link:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.03074

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oa.new oa.government oa.psi oa.mining oa.extraction oa.uk oa.usa oa.kenya oa.india oa.citations oa.surveys oa.reuse oa.data oa.south

Date tagged:

03/11/2018, 13:41

Date published:

03/11/2018, 09:42