Investigating The Sustainability Of New Kinds Of Web

Open Government Data

What is Open Government? A growing worldwide community of academics, policy makers, developers, citizens with a goal to create a transparent and open government through the release of government data

A New Kind of Web Activity? The activity of the Open Government Data communities are changing the way society, businesses and governments are engaging with the Web and digital technologies

US vs. Canada

UK vs. Denmark

NZ vs. AU

Measuring Sustainability

What Can Be Measured Examining the deposit activity of Worldwide Data catalogs. Tracking the frequency and size of dataset deposits using ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories, roar.eprints.org) by utilizing available metadata.

How Does it Help? Monitoring the activity levels of Open Government Data catalogs provides a measure to the continuous commitment to publishing data and transparency, providing a metric for stakeholders to compare

Supporting Growth

How to Support Development? A range of tools and metrics can be used at various stages of the development process to support the Open Government initiative. Its growth is a socio-technical process that requires the commitment of various stakeholders – during development and after public engagement.

A Development Framework Building on Tim Berners-Lee’s Web Development Process, Actor-Network Theory provides a framework to conceptualize the various processes involved and reflects the continuous efforts of stakeholders required

[Mobilisation] Idea

Social Technical

Design

In-house Development

Issues

Public Engagement

[Problematisation]

[Interessement]

[Enrolment]

[Stabilisation]

Tools/Metrics Data tracking

techniques (such as ROAR)

Interaction of actors – Weblogs and Web content

Tools/Metrics Literature /Publication

Metrics Actor identification

support through social media

Interaction metrics – meetings, workshops

Content analysis of interested actors

Worldwide Open Government Data Catalogs

ROAR Data deposit Activity Graphs of Open Government Data Portals

Framework to Support The Development of New Kinds of Web Activity

[Ramine Tinati, Dr Leslie Carr, Prof Susan Halford, Prof Catherine Pope]