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How do Non-profit Open data Intermediaries enhance Open data Usability? A Systematic Literature Review

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Abstract

Non-profit organisations (NPOs) are one type of open data intermediaries connecting different actors in the open data ecosystem. They perform a number of activities, from requesting the government to open up the data to application development. Such activities can have an effect on open data usability barriers that other actors in the open data ecosystem encounter. The objective of this study is to systematically review the literature on the influence of NPOs' activities on the usability barriers for open data users in the open data ecosystem. The authors identified and analysed fourteen relevant papers. This study shows that NPOs conduct various activities that relate to different intermediary roles in the open data ecosystem, which in turn can affect certain usability barriers. Moreover, NPOs may perform different activities depending on the type of open data they work with. However, the connection between the activities and open data usability barriers for open data users cannot be clearly established from the selected articles, as most of them do not focus on establishing such a link. This review highlights a literature gap in relation to NPOs' activities and their effects on open data usability.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OpenSym 2022
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
ISBN (Electronic)9781450398459
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event18th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OpenSym 2022 - Madrid, Spain
Duration: 6 Sept 202210 Sept 2022

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference18th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OpenSym 2022
Country/TerritorySpain
CityMadrid
Period6/09/2210/09/22

Bibliographical note

Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

  • intermediaries
  • non-profit organisations
  • open data
  • usability

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