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This report is the first in a series, the overall objective of which is to provide a better understanding of the links between the worlds of open government data, open science and education, which are tightly interrelated but seem to be often...
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ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
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This report is the first in a series, the overall objective of which is to provide a better understanding of the links between the worlds of open government data, open science and education, which are tightly interrelated but seem to be often disconnected from each other in their current activities and recommendations. As a result of the research carried out in this series of reports, we will identify current limitations and challenges and will provide recommendations on how government officials may increase their awareness of developments and trends in the research world (e.g. the European Open Science Cloud), and how researchers and academics may increase the use of open datasets in their scientific or academic work. Our work will also focus on the main limitations that researchers and academics have when trying to make use of open datasets, so as to provide government data providers with better insight into how they could make their data more easily available to researchers and academia. In this first report we characterise three types of (potential) users and providers of open data in the research and academic contexts. This characterisation is done by developing three 'personas' (a climate change researcher, a lecturer on data journalism and an open data officer). We also provide four initial recommendations to make the data from data.europa.eu more readily available and easier to use by researchers and academics: (a) create a specific searchable tag or subsite with data stories where examples of the usage of open government data for research or academic activities are shown; (b) allow academics to share their learning materials (and teaching experiences) on the use of open datasets on open data portal sites; (c) provide funding opportunities for academics to create academic content associated with open datasets; and (d) provide some form of federation of some of the content from data.europa.eu into services related to the European Open Science Cloud for data archival (e.g. Zenodo).
