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Towards a Framework for Open Data Publishers: A Comparison Study Between Sweden and Belgium

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Public organizations in the role of publishers publish data for anyone to reuse, which can lead to benefits. However, the process descriptions for this publishing work focus on one or a few issues, which leaves out important areas and decisions. Little seems to be known about variations between publishers based on one common point of comparison. Therefore, this paper presents a comparison between two publishers: Namur (Belgium) and Linköping (Sweden). The comparison is based on a process framework, seven in-depth interviews, document studies, and a verification meeting with one respondent. We learned that the OGD manager is an agent of change who need to balance implementation and guidance, the orthodox method of e-mail registration can be used to engage users and monitor impact, the organizational unit for OGD is cross-organizational, and the publisher process framework could be used as ex-ante strategic guidelines and context-specific recommendations.

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  1. Division of Information Systems and Digitalization, Linköping University, 581 83, Linköping, Sweden

    Jonathan Crusoe

  2. Namur Digital Institute, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium

    Anthony Simonofski & Antoine Clarinval

  3. Faculty of Economics and Business, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Anthony Simonofski

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  1. Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria

    Gabriela Viale Pereira

  2. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Marijn Janssen

  3. Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK

    Habin Lee

  4. Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Ida Lindgren

  5. University of Granada, Granada, Spain

    Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar

  6. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Hans Jochen Scholl

  7. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Anneke Zuiderwijk

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Crusoe, J., Simonofski, A., Clarinval, A. (2020). Towards a Framework for Open Data Publishers: A Comparison Study Between Sweden and Belgium. In: Viale Pereira, G., et al. Electronic Government. EGOV 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12219. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57599-1_20

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