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Open Data Exposed

  • Maximises readers’ understanding of current open data through multiple perspectives
  • Appealing examples of open data implementation across the world (United Kingdom, China, Indonesia and the Netherlands)
  • The most up-to-date reference book on open data written by key experts with a comprehensive overview of critical components and relevant aspects related to open data management

Part of the book series: Information Technology and Law Series (ITLS, volume 30)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Open Data Exposed

    • Bastiaan van Loenen, Glenn Vancauwenberghe, Joep Crompvoets, Lorenzo Dalla Corte
    Pages 1-10
  3. Towards Open Data Across the Pond

    • Lorenzo Dalla Corte
    Pages 11-32
  4. Towards a User-Oriented Open Data Strategy

    • Bastiaan van Loenen
    Pages 33-53
  5. Funding Open Data

    • Frederika Welle Donker
    Pages 55-78
  6. Governance of Open Data Initiatives

    • Glenn Vancauwenberghe, Joep Crompvoets
    Pages 79-100
  7. Assessing Open Data

    • Glenn Vancauwenberghe
    Pages 149-172
  8. Technological Aspects of (Linked) Open Data

    • Stanislav Ronzhin, Erwin Folmer, Rob Lemmens
    Pages 173-193
  9. Open Data in the United Kingdom

    • Glenn Vancauwenberghe, Jamie Fawcett
    Pages 195-214
  10. The Development of Open Data in The Netherlands

    • Bastiaan van Loenen
    Pages 215-232
  11. Open Data in China

    • Mei Xue
    Pages 233-246
  12. 2050: The Story of Urbidata

    • Hendrik Ploeger, Bastiaan van Loenen
    Pages 269-288

About this book

The main objectives of this book are to expose key aspects that have a relevance when dealing with open data viewed from different perspectives and to provide appealing examples of how open data is implemented worldwide.

The concept of open data as we know it today is the result of many different initiatives, both of a legislative and non-legislative nature, and promoted by a wide range of actors. Numerous regulatory antecedents to foster the concept of open data and embed it in national and international policy agendas have been undertaken on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as at a supranational level. The book highlights a number of the efforts made to promote open data in Europe, Asia and the United States. 


In addition to new insights, practical guidance and multiple disciplinary perspectives on open data, the book also addresses the transformation of current developments towards open data, which may be referred to as the democratisation of data. 


This book will support open data practitioners as well as open data scholars in their endeavours to promote open data implementation and research.

Bastiaan van Loenen is associate professor and director of the Knowledge Centre Open Data at the Faculty of Architecture and The Built Environment of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, as is Glenn Vancauwenberghe, who is a post-doctoral researcher, and Joep Crompvoets is a professor at the Public Governance Institute of the KU Leuven in Belgium.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Bastiaan van Loenen, Glenn Vancauwenberghe

  • Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Joep Crompvoets

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