Open Data Ecosystems - an empirical investigation into an emerging industry collaboration concept

Per Runeson, Thomas Olsson, Johan Linåker

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Abstract


Software systems are increasingly depending on data, particularly with the rising use of machine learning, and developers are looking for new sources of data. Open Data Ecosystems (ODE) is an emerging concept for data sharing under public licenses in software ecosystems, similar to Open Source Software (OSS). It has certain similarities to Open Government Data (OGD), where public agencies share data for innovation and transparency.
We aimed to explore open data ecosystems involving commercial actors. Thus, we organized five focus groups with 27 practitioners from 22 companies, public organizations, and research institutes. Based on the outcomes, we surveyed three cases of emerging ODE practice to further understand the concepts and to validate the initial findings. The main outcome is an initial conceptual model of ODEs’ value, intrinsics, governance, and evolution, and propositions for practice and further research.
We found that ODE must be value driven. Regarding the intrinsics of data, we found their type, meta-data, and legal frameworks influential for their openness. We also found the characteristics of ecosystem initiation, organization, data acquisition and openness be differentiating, which we advise research and practice to take into consideration.
Original languageEnglish
Article number111088
JournalJournal of Systems and Software
Volume182
Early online date2021 Sept 16
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021 Dec 1

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Software Engineering

Free keywords

  • Open Data
  • open data ecosystem
  • open innovation
  • empirical study

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