Current Barriers to Open Government Data Use and Visualization by Political Intermediaries

Brugger, Jérôme; Fraefel, Marianne; Riedl, Reinhard; Fehr, Hansjakob; Schoeneck, Daniel; Weissbrod, Christoph Staehli

doi:10.1109/cedem.2016.18

Cited by 16 publications

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“…While the dominance of data journalism freelancers is an Italian specificity, the other issue that we investigate here is common to several studies in data journalism: the relationship between transparency and journalism. The fact that data journalism as a political intermediary can enhance the knowledge and use of openly available government data and thus promote transparency and participation is almost commonsensical (Brugger et al 2016;Felle 2015). By using data, journalists perform the democratic duty of helping citizens to engage with publicly available datasets and to become more actively involved in the process of their interpretation (Boyles and Meyer 2016).…”

Section: Literature Review and The Italian Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Open Journalism to Closed Data: Data Journalism in Italy

Porlezza

Splendore

2019

Digital Journalism

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The study investigates how journalists construct the rise of data journalism discursively within the specific political and economic conditions of Italy, and whether data journalists describe it as able to promote transparency at the level of both journalism and society as a whole. Italy is an interesting case for four different reasons: 1) to date, few analyses have been carried out on Mediterranean countries; 2) the Italian media system and its traditional journalism culture appear to be reluctant to innovate; 3) Italian data journalists are generally freelancers linked to small news agencies rather than established newsrooms; 4) the research reported in this paper was accomplished while the Italian government was approving a Freedom of Information Act. From the end of 2015 to the beginning of 2017, we carried out 15 interviews with data journalists working full-time both for established news organizations and specialized agencies. The findings show that data journalism in Italy is a highly professional sub-field, although journalistic education is not well developed. Data journalism is still largely determined by the availability and accessibility of public datasets. However, data journalists have developed certain strategies with which to generate and collect their own data, for instance collaborations and networks.

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Section: Literature Review and The Italian Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Open Journalism to Closed Data: Data Journalism in Italy

Porlezza

Splendore

2019

Digital Journalism

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“…While mentioned barriers focuses on the experiences of the users, we can also look at user Diversity barriers. Different Users [2,6,14,18,33,39,42] comes with diverse needs and goals. E.g.…”

Section: Using the Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[2, p. 404]. If data require special Skill for Usage [5,6,13,14,16,18,20,27,34,39,42], users without them are at a disadvantage and how to supply these will be a barrier for both publishers and users. This leads us to Usability [3, 5, 16, 18-20, 29, 34, 39] as a barrier.…”

Section: Using the Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating Open Government Data Barriers

Crusoe

Melin

2018

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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When focusing on open government data (OGD) publishing and related barriers, there are several complexities present. Largely, current research is focused on publishing and usage of OGD; and we argue that there are a need to investigate and to systematise OGD barrier research in order to understand and outline an expanded scope of the phenomenon. We expand by clarifying barriers linked to the release decision and the data's organisational context. To investigate the OGD barriers, we conduct a systematic literature review, identifying 34 articles as a point of departure for our analysis. From these articles we create, present and discuss illustrations on historical development, barrier types, and different research focuses on OGD. When analysing the articles, we identify a focus on technical, organisational, and legal barrier types, while studies on open data usage and systems are less frequent. Our analysis also identifies some possible open data research barriers. In the article we also relate barriers to an expanded OGD process (Suitability, Release, Publish, Use, and Evaluation), identifying 46 barriers with possible linkages. The results is an expanded scope and a conceptual illustration of OGD barriers.

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“…Free fields in ITsystems, errors in data creation, or the work tradition (Paper three) Data is not structured (Yang, Lo, & Shiang, 2015) or data has a layout made for printing (Brugger et al, 2016). The lack of essential information can enhance this.…”

Section: The Properties Of Ogd Impedimentsmentioning

confidence: 99%