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Designing a Second Generation of Open Data Platforms: Integrating Open Data and Social Media

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Abstract

Two important trends in government that are emerging in the recent years have been on one hand the exploitation of the Web 2.0 social media, supporting a more extensive interaction and collaboration with citizens, and on the other hand the opening of government data to the citizens through the Internet, in order to be used for scientific, commercial and political purposes. However, there has been limited attempt of integrating them. Using a design science approach a second generation of open government data (OGD) platforms has been developed, which offer to the users both the ‘classical’ first generation functionalities, and also a comprehensive set of additional novel Web 2.0 features. The latter aim to provide support to the users in order to generate value from ODG. They enable users to become ‘prosumers’, both producing and consuming data. These novel capabilities for performing various types of processing, information and knowledge exchange, and collaboration were found to be useful and valuable by users in a first evaluation.

Keywords

  • open government data
  • open data
  • open government
  • public sector information
  • e-infrastructures
  • e-government
  • Web 2.0
  • social media
  • prosumers

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  1. Dept. Information and Communication Systems Engineering, Univertity of the Aegean, Samos, Greece

    Charalampos Alexopoulos, Yannis Charapabidis & Euripidis Loukis

  2. Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Anneke Zuiderwijk & Marijn Janssen

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  1. Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX, Delft, The Netherlands

    Marijn Janssen

  2. The Information School, University of Washington, Mary Gates Hall, 98195-2840, Seattle, WA, USA

    Hans Jochen Scholl

  3. Faculty of Computer Science, University of Koblenz-Landau, Universitätsstr. 1, 56070, Koblenz, Germany

    Maria A. Wimmer

  4. School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

    Frank Bannister

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Alexopoulos, C., Zuiderwijk, A., Charapabidis, Y., Loukis, E., Janssen, M. (2014). Designing a Second Generation of Open Data Platforms: Integrating Open Data and Social Media. In: Janssen, M., Scholl, H.J., Wimmer, M.A., Bannister, F. (eds) Electronic Government. EGOV 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8653. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44426-9_19

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