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.
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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | Open Data Exposed |
Editors | Bastiaan Van Loenen, Glenn Vancauwenberghe, Joep Crompvoets |
Place of Publication | The Hague |
Publisher | TMC Asser Press |
Pages | 215-232 |
Number of pages | 17 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-94-6265-261-3 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-94-6265-260-6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Publication series
Name | Information Technology and Law Series |
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Publisher | TMC Asser presss |
Volume | 30 |
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-careOtherwise 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