Lesson
Opportunities and challenges of citizen-generated data
How important is the data generated by citizens and what’s its impact in our overall economy of data? In this lesson you’ll explore how data is being made available in open data portals from different levels of public administrations. Through a combination of videos and readings you’ll get a better understanding of how citizen-generated data can be part of the open data offerings. Moreover, the lesson will cover how open data is governed, catalogued, and republished by public organizations.
About this lesson
- Level:
- Beginner
- Course:
- Improving open data and metadata quality
- Theme:
- BusinessPortal
- Format:
- Reading, Videos
Lesson materials
These are the slides used in the webinar on citizen-generated data on data.europa.eu.
This report provides insights into citizen-generated data (CGD) that may be part of open data portals, allowing public administrations to better understand whether and how CGD may be made available as part of their open data offering. The report provides a categorisation of different types and dimensions of CGD that may be offered in open data portals, together with a discussion on the opportunities and challenges that their inclusion in data.europa.eu may bring in.
