The World of Open Data

1. Front Matter

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2. The Open Data Landscape

   • Yannis Charalabidis, Anneke Zuiderwijk, Charalampos Alexopoulos, Marijn Janssen, Thomas Lampoltshammer, Enrico Ferro

   Pages 1-9

3. The Multiple Life Cycles of Open Data Creation and Use

   • Yannis Charalabidis, Anneke Zuiderwijk, Charalampos Alexopoulos, Marijn Janssen, Thomas Lampoltshammer, Enrico Ferro

   Pages 11-31

4. Open Data Directives and Policies

   • Yannis Charalabidis, Anneke Zuiderwijk, Charalampos Alexopoulos, Marijn Janssen, Thomas Lampoltshammer, Enrico Ferro

   Pages 33-56

5. Organizational Issues: How to Open Up Government Data?

   • Yannis Charalabidis, Anneke Zuiderwijk, Charalampos Alexopoulos, Marijn Janssen, Thomas Lampoltshammer, Enrico Ferro

   Pages 57-73

6. Open Data Interoperability

   • Yannis Charalabidis, Anneke Zuiderwijk, Charalampos Alexopoulos, Marijn Janssen, Thomas Lampoltshammer, Enrico Ferro

   Pages 75-93

7. Open Data Infrastructures

   • Yannis Charalabidis, Anneke Zuiderwijk, Charalampos Alexopoulos, Marijn Janssen, Thomas Lampoltshammer, Enrico Ferro

   Pages 95-113

8. Open Data Value and Business Models

   • Yannis Charalabidis, Anneke Zuiderwijk, Charalampos Alexopoulos, Marijn Janssen, Thomas Lampoltshammer, Enrico Ferro

   Pages 115-136

9. Open Data Evaluation Models: Theory and Practice

   • Yannis Charalabidis, Anneke Zuiderwijk, Charalampos Alexopoulos, Marijn Janssen, Thomas Lampoltshammer, Enrico Ferro

   Pages 137-172

10. Open Government Data: Areas and Directions for Research

    • Yannis Charalabidis, Anneke Zuiderwijk, Charalampos Alexopoulos, Marijn Janssen, Thomas Lampoltshammer, Enrico Ferro

    Pages 173-194

11. Back Matter

    Pages 195-229

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This book discusses the latest developments in the field of open data. The opening of data by public organizations has the potential to improve the public sector, inspire business innovation, and establish transparency. With this potential comes unique challenges; these developments impact the operation of governments as well as their relationship with private sector enterprises and society. Changes at the technical, organizational, managerial, and political level are taking place, which, in turn, impact policy-making and traditional institutional structures. This book contributes to the systematic analysis and publication of cutting-edge methods, tools, and approaches for more efficient data sharing policies, practices, and further research. Topics discussed include an introduction to open data, the open data landscape, the open data life cycle, open data policies, organizational issues, interoperability, infrastructure, business models, open data portal evaluation, and research directions, best practices, and guidelines. Written to address different perspectives, this book will be of equal interest to students and researchers,  ICT industry staff, practitioners, policy makers and public servants.

• Open Data
• Infrastructure
• Public Administration
• Data collection
• Public Policy
• Linked Open Data

• Department of Information and Communication Engineering, University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece

  Yannis Charalabidis, Charalampos Alexopoulos

• Faculty of Technology, Policy & Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

  Anneke Zuiderwijk, Marijn Janssen

• Department for E-Governance and Administration, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria

  Thomas Lampoltshammer

• Head of Innovation Development Department, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Turin, Italy

  Enrico Ferro

Yannis Charalabidis is Assistant Professor in the University of Aegean, in the area of eGovernment Information Systems, while also heading eGovernment & eBusiness Research in the Decision Support Systems Laboratory of National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), planning and coordinating high-level policy making, research and pilot application projects for governments and enterprises worldwide. A computer engineer with a PhD in complex information systems, he has been employed for 8 years as an executive director in Singular IT Group, leading software development, corporate strategy and company expansion in Eastern Europe. He writes and teaches on eGovernment Information Systems, Interoperability and Standardization, eParticipation and Government Transformation in NTUA and the University of Aegean, in Samos.

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