Assessing Open Data Assessment – What do we Want to Measure? | International Open Data Conference 2015

" ... So why do we want to look at the data about open data in the face? What are we trying to get out of it? The answer is simple, we try to see what our action did, how did we perform, and hopefully to learn from it how we can get better. It requires a lot of work, but it is an investment for our future work. The question then should not be why we measure our open data efforts, but even simpler than that – what do we want to measure? How can we measure effectively so we can work better in the future? In the last International Open Data Conference (IODC) that took place in May 2015, we set up an open data measurement track. We tried in our workshop to tackle these four subjects: develop an open data assessment roadmap; refine the open data common assessment framework; grow the network of researchers; and develop domain specific assessments: starting with national statistics ..."