ANALYSIS OF BARRIERS TO PUBLISHING AND RE-USE OF OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA

Governments and public organizations hold significant amount of data that, if published under conditions permitting its re-use and in open and machine-readable formats, could be a source of various benefits to individuals, organization, states and wider society. Open Government Data is becoming a widely accepted practice in sharing government data for re-use and in many countries an Open Data initiative has already been launched. Despite this fact, the number of truly open datasets still remains low. Stakeholders in the Open Data ecosystem face various barriers when publishing or re-using Open Government Data. The goal of this paper is to analyze what barriers these stakeholders are facing and how the view of the perceived barriers has changed over time. Results of an analysis of several studies and papers dealing with such barriers are presented in this paper and based on these results future research topics are proposed.