The Development of Open Data in The Netherlands

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    Abstract

    Open data in The Netherlands dates back to the 1990s when the Ministry of Internal Affairs published the memorandum‘Towards accessibility of government
    information’. More than two decades later, open data in The Netherlands has matured with the assignment of a responsible Ministry for open data, an open data vision and an open data action plan. The scope of government data that should or could be provided as open data was extended from only basic information of the democratic constitutional state, to public data available in electronic format, to a policy of all data publicly accessible, unless. This has resulted in usage statistics of several billion hits per year for some datasets. However, there are still a significant number of Dutch government datasets waiting to be reused. These are unknown to many, including government. Others are well known but financial interests of government, technical and legal barriers, among others, frustrate their reuse.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationOpen Data Exposed
    EditorsBastiaan Van Loenen, Glenn Vancauwenberghe, Joep Crompvoets
    Place of PublicationThe Hague
    PublisherTMC Asser Press
    Pages215-232
    Number of pages17
    ISBN (Electronic)978-94-6265-261-3
    ISBN (Print)978-94-6265-260-6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2018

    Publication series

    NameInformation Technology and Law Series
    PublisherTMC Asser presss
    Volume30

    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

    • open data
    • Netherlands

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