Challenges and Opportunities in Open Data Collaboration: A focus group study
2020 (English)In: Proceedings - 46th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2020, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020, p. 205-212, article id 9226338Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Data-driven software is becoming prevalent, especially with the advent of machine learning and artificial intelligence. With data-driven systems come both challenges - to keep collecting and maintaining high quality data - and opportunities - open innovation by sharing data with others. We propose Open Data Collaboration (ODC) to describe pecuniary and non-pecuniary sharing of open data, similar to Open Source Software (OSS) and in contrast to Open Government Data (OGD), where public authorities share data. To understand challenges and opportunities with ODC, we organized five focus groups with in total 27 practitioners from 22 companies, public organizations, and research institutes. In the discussions, we observed a general interest in the subject, both from private companies and public authorities. We also noticed similarities in attitudes to open innovation practices, i.e. initial resistance which gradually turned into interest. While several of the participants were experienced in open source software, no had shared data openly. Based on the findings, we identify challenges which we set out to continue addressing in future research.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020. p. 205-212, article id 9226338
Keywords [en]
empirical study, Open data, open innovation, Application programs, Artificial intelligence, Data Sharing, Open source software, Open systems, Data collaborations, Focus group studies, High quality data, Initial resistance, Private companies, Public authorities, Public organizations, Research institutes
National Category
Engineering and Technology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-50982DOI: 10.1109/SEAA51224.2020.00044Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85096608039ISBN: 9781728195322 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-50982DiVA, id: diva2:1509542
Conference
46th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2020, 26 August 2020 through 28 August 2020
2020-12-142020-12-142021-11-30Bibliographically approved