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Best Practices/Publish overview of managed data
Share-PSI 2.0 Best Practice
Source: Best Practices/Traffic Light System For Data Sharing
Contents
Outline of the best practice
When the user community is asked about what datasets they would prefer for release they often cannot respond because they are not aware of what datasets are available. Therefore an overview of datasets managed by an organisation should be published.
Management summary
Challenge
There is often a ‘catch 22’ situation when identifying data for release. The public sector asks the user community what data they would like and they will prioritise this for release. However, the user community are often not aware of what exists and therefore cannot respond here.
Solution
Publish an overview of datasets managed by an organisation.
Best Practice identification
Why is this a Best Practice? What’s the impact of the Best Practice
The overview when made public gives enough information for users (both public and private sector) to prioritise the most interesting data for release.
Links to the PSI Directive
Why is there a need for this Best Practice?
User community is not always fully aware of datasets that an organisation can possibly make available as Open Data, at least not to full extend. This might prevent the user community from providing the feedback about what datasets the community would have preferred for release. Following this practice should improve efficiency of gathering feedback about datasets requested for release.
What do you need for this Best Practice?
Technical requirements are minimal. Spreadsheet and the possibility to publish on line and receive feedback. Impact of the practice can be improved when the best practice Categorise openness of data is being followed. This would allow potential external users to examine the data categorised as yellow (datasets that could be possibly shared within the public sector but not with the external users) and bring forward arguments about why some of it could be re-categorised as ‘green’ data if they see fit.
Applicability by other Member States
Best practice is applicable across the member states.
Contact info
Heather Broomfield (hbr [at] difi.no)