We conduct a systematic survey with the aim of assessing open government data initiatives,
that is; any attempt, by a government or otherwise, to open data that is produced by a …

Open data has rapidly moved from being a niche interest, to being part of the global policy
mainstream. Government-led open data initiatives have spread across the globe, and civil …

Policy-makers expect that open data will be accepted and used more and more, resulting in
a range of benefits including transparency, participation and innovation. The ability to use …

There is an increasing demand for opening data provided by public and private
organisations. Various organisations have already started to publish their data and …

Recommender systems based on collaborative filtering predict user preferences for products
or services by learning past user-item relationships. A predominant approach to …

The pressure for governments to release much of the vast reservoir of data that they
collectively hold continues to grow. This pressure is grounded not just in principles such as …

Abstract 3D city models are omnipresent in urban management and simulations. However,
instruments for their evaluation have been limited. Furthermore, current instances are …

A loose coalition of advocates for Open Government Data (OGD) argue that such data has
the potential to have a transformative impact by catalyzing innovation across sectors of the …

Reports and research appears to assume that the benefits of open data dominate open
data's negative consequences. Moreover, much of the existing research discusses benefits …

The opening of government data, in order to have both social and economic value
generated from them, has attracted the attention and interest of both researchers and …