OPEN DATA REUSE IV
• The degree to which it is “known for something” (for example, for its level of maturity, its datasets, the services developed by its data or by its innovation). • Its generalised favorability (the opinion of the reusing agents in the data ecosystem). Having reliable metrics that allow measuring the quality of the data hosted by open data portals, with regard to its reuse, is of great importance. The reputation of portals can boost their continuous improvement. In this report, an evaluation of open data portals in Spain is carried out, applying the latest version of the MELODA metric (Abella, Ortiz-de-Urbina-Criado, De-Pablos-Heredero, 2019).
who use these portals have indicated that they access the portal of the National Institute of Statistics, and 52 % access the portal of the National Centre for Geographical Information. 67 % of respondents indicate that they use data published at a regional level. Although the use is similar in all autonomous communities, it is worth highlighting the use of the portals of the Community of Madrid, the Junta de Andalucía and the Generalitat de Catalunya (ASEDIE, 2023). The creation of open data portals does not imply that the data they publish is ready for professional reuse. Organisations that offer open data portals must consider that one of the values that data provides lies in its capacity for reuse, so they must try to define and create open portals whose characteristics allow the adequate reuse of data (Abella, Ortiz-de-Urbina- Criado, De-Pablos-Heredero, 2022). The political interest in implementing open government projects has produced some confusion and ambiguity (Gil-García, Gasco- Hernández and Parto, 2020). Specifically in the case of Spain, we have identified a high number of what we call pretender open data portals (PODP) (Abella et al., 2022), given that these are open data portals that contain data, but which is not suitable for reuse. Cetina (2021) refers to the need to work on “purposeful data” in order to make it useful. Ortiz-de-Urbina-Criado, Abella and De-Pablos- Heredero (2023) analyse the reputation of open data portals considering it the collective recognition of the capacity demonstrated by the portal to systematically offer reusable open data and allow the creation of value based on it. The authors base their analysis on the three dimensions proposed by Lange, Lee and Dai (2011) to measure reputation: • The degree to which “it is known” (dissemination and knowledge of the data portal).
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