Is Open Data Ready for Use by Enterprises? Learnings from Corporate Registers

Pavel Krasikov, Timo Obrecht, Christine Legner, Markus Eurich

2020

Abstract

Open data initiatives have long focused on motivating governmental bodies to open up their data. The number of open datasets is growing steadily, but their adoption is still lagging behind. An increasing number of studies assess open data portals and open data quality to shed light on open data’s current state. Since prior research addressed neither datasets’ content, nor whether it met enterprises’ data needs, our study aims to address this gap by investigating the extent to which open data is ready for use in the enterprise context. We focus on open corporate registers as an important segment of open government data with high relevance for enterprises. Our findings confirm that open datasets are heterogeneous in terms of access, licensing, and content, which makes them difficult to use in a business context. Our content analysis reveals that less than 50% of analyzed registers provide companies’ full legal addresses, while only 10% note their contact information. We conclude that open data in corporate registers has limited use to its lack of required attributes and relevant business concepts for typical use cases.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Krasikov P., Obrecht T., Legner C. and Eurich M. (2020). Is Open Data Ready for Use by Enterprises? Learnings from Corporate Registers.In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications - Volume 1: DATA, ISBN 978-989-758-440-4, pages 109-120. DOI: 10.5220/0009875801090120

in Bibtex Style

@conference{data20,
author={Pavel Krasikov and Timo Obrecht and Christine Legner and Markus Eurich},
title={Is Open Data Ready for Use by Enterprises? Learnings from Corporate Registers},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications - Volume 1: DATA,},
year={2020},
pages={109-120},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009875801090120},
isbn={978-989-758-440-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications - Volume 1: DATA,
TI - Is Open Data Ready for Use by Enterprises? Learnings from Corporate Registers
SN - 978-989-758-440-4
AU - Krasikov P.
AU - Obrecht T.
AU - Legner C.
AU - Eurich M.
PY - 2020
SP - 109
EP - 120
DO - 10.5220/0009875801090120