Towards the Evaluation and Continuous Evolution of Open Government Data Portals: A Framework Proposal

Citizens are gaining broad access to public data sources, made available in Open Government Data Portals (OGDPs). While the number of OGDPs grows over the years, researchers identify recurrent problems in these portals regarding data delivery. We conducted preliminary studies for identifying recurrent issues in OGDPs and we identified that data governance frameworks may be applied for tackling these issues. However, data governance may be difficult to be applied for improving an entire data portal considering all issues at once. So, in this work, we propose a preliminary conceptual framework for analyzing and evolving an OGDP considering (i) the prioritization of items to be evolved in OGDPs; (ii) recurrent issues in OGDPs extracted from literature; (iii) good practices for constructing other similar OGDPs and the analysis of situation; (iv) identification of gaps and (v) improvement proposal based on data governance. We applied our framework for proposing new activities for managing bidding data in an OGDP of the city of Niterói, Brazil. Our findings show how the framework can be used to evaluating and continually evolving OGDPs.