Abstract: Open government is emerging as a core issue for increasing, on the
one hand, participation of citizens, and, on the other hand, accountability,
transparency, and the capability of delivering digital services by Public
Administrations, with a consequent interest into public and social value as
final outcomes. However, most of the open government initiatives actually
concern the provision of public data under an open license and in an open and
accessible format. From a policy as well as from a research point of view, open
government raises a set of questions about how to manage and evaluate their
quality, also considering the compliance with enforced legal frameworks, if any
available focused specifically on open government issues. Thus, the paper
discusses a quality-based framework for open government data compliance
assessment, made up of quality dimensions and a set of criteria contributing to
the measurement of a compliance index. The framework is then applied for the
evaluation of the open government data initiatives of a sample of local public
administration in Italy.
Keywords: Open government data, alignment policy and ICT strategy, transparency
