Data Quality Assessment on Taiwan’s Open Data Sites

Open data has emerged to be a hot topic recently and attracted lots of attention from both researchers and practitioners. Many governments around the world are publishing government open data for public well-being, information disclosure, service innovation, and so on.Enormous amount of data and applications have been released and built in recent years. In accordance to such trend, authorities of Taiwan government are also striving to establish platforms for users to access and employ open data. However, the status and usage of these platforms are still unclear. This study conducts an exploratory investigation on the open data platforms in Taiwan to reveal their feasibility. Besides, we also try to assess the data quality of these platforms by examining medical facilities datasets published in these platforms. We hope that this research can provide a step stone for building better open datasets as well as platforms in Taiwan.

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