OGD metadata country portal publishing guidelines compliance: A multi-case study search for completeness and consistency |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Organization, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics Vara?din, Pavlinska 2, 42 000 Vara?din, Croatia;2. College of Arts and Sciences, Carlow University, 3333 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States;1. Associate Professor and Director, School of Planning, Public Policy, and Management, University of Oregon, 263 Hendricks Hall, 1209 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, United States of America;2. Associate Professor, School of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115, United States of America;1. Nyenrode Business University, Department of Accounting, Auditing and Control, PO Box 130, 3620 AC Breukelen, Netherlands;2. SEO Amsterdam, Netherlands;3. Department of Economics and Management, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands;4. Nyenrode Business University, Department of Accounting, Auditing and Control, Breukelen, Netherlands;5. Department of Spatial Economics, Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands;1. Departamento de Computação, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil;2. Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil;1. Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK;2. College of Arts and Sciences, University of Wisconsin, USA;3. Birmingham Business School, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B14 2TY, UK;4. Division of Technology Services, University of Wisconsin – River Falls, 410 S. 3rd Street, River Falls, WI 54022, USA;5. Department of Physics and Mathematics, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK;1. Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Science, Technology and Media, Department of Information systems and Technology, Forum for Digitalization, Holmgatan 10, Sundsvall 851 70, Sweden.;2. University of South Africa, Department of Information Science, Preller Street, Muckleneuk Ridge, Pretoria. |
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| Abstract: | To guarantee a certain level of data usability, metadata which is information about the OGD, is needed. For this reason, OGD administrators provide metadata publishing guidelines to request, among other things, that certain metadata field always be present (completeness) and that field validation rules, when provided, be met (consistency). Lack of compliance of OGD metadata with publishing guidelines in country portals constitutes poor metadata quality control and will drastically decrease the effective use/reuse of the data and keep the expected benefits from being realized. This study explores the extent of metadata compliance, in terms of completeness and consistency, of three OGD leading country portals (Canada, USA, New Zealand) with respect to their own metadata publishing guidelines. A statistical comparison of population proportions among the countries was performed. The results indicate that the compliance of the USA is far less than Canada and New Zealand in terms of datasets with required fields set (completeness). On the other hand, New Zealand trails Canada and the USA in terms of OGD datasets with valid (consistent) fields. These results indicate that OGD metadata compliance is rather poor, suggesting insufficient quality control. Finally, this study concludes with suggestions to improve the OGD platforms so that metadata compliance can be automatically enforced. |
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