Indicators for Open Data qualitative assessment: intelligibility, operability and interactivity of Federal Government datasets on the Brazilian Open Data Portal
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https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.1809-4783.2020v30n3.52469Abstract
This study has as main objective to advance in the construction of methodologies that allow the qualitative evaluation of data sets published through Open Data policies, having as analytical principle to verify whether that data fulfill normative parameters that allow its proper social appropriation. In this sense, the corpus of analysis focused on the Brazilian federal government datasets published on the Brazilian Open Data Portal. A total of 715 datasets from all agencies with ministry status were studied, which involved checking a total of 2,743 files (‘content-bases’), of which 1,860 files were effectively found and analyzed. Methodologically, the study was carried out on two fronts: an external qualitative analysis of the archives, observing their conditions and publication standards and an internal qualitative analysis, verifying the archives themselves, opening and observing them individually. The consistency of three normative dimensions was verified: (a) intelligibility; (b) operability and (c) interactivity. The study showed that most datasets have intelligibility problems; it was found that 21% of datasets advertised as "published" do not, in fact, have files available for download (broken links). Other problems were also detected, such as data gaps, lack of standardization and formats, and insufficient interactivity indicators.
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