The document discusses the lack of open data reuse, revealing that many portal managers are unaware of data reusers, with public administrations being the primary consumers. Key findings indicate that a significant percentage of portal managers do not track data access or promote its use. The document also outlines stages of data management evolution and highlights the need for better governance and understanding of data impact.

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Why Our Open Data is Not Reused
Alberto Abella
@aabella

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• Profesisonal
Senior manager at desideDatum. Consultancy on data and transparency.
Business assessor for EU incubators
• Academia
Researcher on data reuse and its impact
PhD on ‘open data’ by URJC with academic award to doctoral dissertaton
• Social
Cofounder of Open knowledge spanish chapter
Cofounder of Iniciatia Barcelona Open Data
• Otherdata
Member of EU project EURITO in new metrics of innoiaton
Speaker and teacher for seieral insttutons

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Question 1
How many of you rule
an open data resource
(city portal, technical
open data resource,
etc) ?
Why Our Open Data is Not Reused
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Question 2
How many of you are
regular reusers of open
data ?
Why Our Open Data is Not Reused
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Question 3
How many of you are
have regular contact
with each other type ?
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Why Our Open Data is Not Reused
No more questons honourable ….

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20.026* Datasets
103* → 10%
153 Open data portals
103*
84 Portal managers
27 answers
470 services
59 servi. → 12%
Spain. March 2017 Funded by COTEC
foundation

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>30000* Datasets
N* → 5%
310 Open data portals
280
160 Portal managers
N answers
>500 services
N services → 5%
Spaina dn Uruguay.
December 2018
Funded by Desidedatum
With collaboration of
●
Government of
Uruguay
●
University Politécnica
Valencia
●
University Rey Juan
Carlos
●
COTEC foundation
2
0
1
9
30 International
experts

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Why Our Open Data is Not Reused
Almost 1 in 5 portal owners do not know any reuser
of their data.
Public administratons themselies are the main
consumers of the data.

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Why Our Open Data is Not Reused
40% the portals managers confrm that they DO NOT
have logs of the accesses to the data published
No portal manager replied that he would undertake a
systematc actvity to promote the use of open data.

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Why Our Open Data is Not Reused
Ruling an open data portal is the only business not
concerned about who are their ‘customers’

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No Yes_no_map_view Yes_with_map_view
0
0,5
1
1,5
2
2,5
3
3,5
Descargas según contenido geográfico
Contenido geográfico
Mediadescargas
BCNcity
Geolocateddata
aredownloaded
x26times
Geolocation
Matters
Causality?
Why Our Open Data is Not Reused
Downloads vs geo content
No Yes without
map
Yes with
map

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Why Our Open Data is Not Reused
Average downloads vs stars
Montlyaverage
2Million
requests/month
96% API
7timesmore
internal
consumption
thanexternal

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Why Our Open Data is Not Reused
http://datos.gob.es/es/iniciatvas
Average monthly downloads per resource ?
1.2 downloads/ month
During the frst quarter of 2018, the
datasets included in datos.gob.es portal
exceeded 65,000 visits.
Hay 17,676 datasets
Spain open data portal
Canada is even lower

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Con geolocalización 15% 72% 87%
En tiempo real <1% 35% 66%
Datos
publicados
Todas las
aplicaciones
Modelo de
negocio
sostenible
Comparisonbetweenwhatispublishedandwhatis
used
Geolocated
Real time
Published
open data
All Apps
Business
model
Why Our Open Data is Not Reused

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Transporte Meteorología
Temáticas publicadas 4% 2% (7%)
Temáticas aplicaciones 47% 24%
Whattopicsarepublishedandwhatisused
Why Our Open Data is Not Reused
Transport Meteo
Topics published
Topics used

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Stage1(2010-2015):Themorethebetter
1)Splittingdatadoesnot easyreuse
2)Formatsmatter
3)UsingaDMSisamust
Stage2(2015-2018):Pleasereusemydata!!
1)Concernedaboutwhoandwhatforourdataareused
2)Proactiveapproachtoreusers
3)Needforinternaldatagovernance
Stage3(2018-):What’stheimpactandhowtosustainpublication
1)Managingdatahasinternalandexternaleffects
2)Noimpact demonstration(analysis)→nomoreresourcesforpublication
3)Digitaltransformationhastobeawarethatdatahastobe‘connected’
Why Our Open Data is Not Reused