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Goals and research questions

The purpose of this study is to understand how Open Government Data (OGD) is being used in academic research and explore ways to realize the potentials of OGD in advancing data-driven academic research. We will use literature mining, online survey and semi-structured interviews. The three methods support and complement each other.

Literature mining can give us a holistic view of current landscape of OGD use in academia. Through literature mining, we aim to answer the following research questions:

  • What fields of academic research are using OGD?
  • Where are the authors who use OGD in their research? (maybe, since sampling will have selection bias.)
  • What types (themes/ sources) of OGD do researchers use?
  • What purposes do OGD serve in academic research?
  • How much impact has OGD made through advancing academic research?

Online survey supports literature mining by exploring a subset of research questions answered by literature review from users’ side. The population of this study is researchers working in Universities and research centers all over the world. Through online survey, we aim to answer:

  • What fields of academic research are using OGD?
  • Where are the authors who use OGD in their research?
  • What types (themes/ formats/ sources) of OGD do researchers use?
  • What purposes do OGD serve in academic research?

Online survey complements literature mining by getting at researchers’ researchers awareness of, intentions to use, and challenges of use OGD.

  • How do researchers grow aware of OGD?
  • What challenges do researchers encounter when using OGD in their research?
  • What are the factors influencing researchers’ decision to use OGD in research?
  • What are the ways to improve OGD use in research?

Online survey also captures respondents who do not use OGD and reveals the reasons why they do not use OGD in their research.

  • What are the factors influencing researchers’ decision to not use OGD in research?

Interview complements online survey and literature mining by providing detailed and in-depth information regarding the types of OGD researchers use, the purposes of OGD in research, challenges and expectations researchers have on OGD, and factors influencing researchers’ intentions to use OGD:

  • What types (themes/ formats/ sources) of OGD do researchers use?
  • What purposes do OGD serve in academic research?
  • How do researchers grow aware of OGD?
  • What challenges do researchers encounter when using OGD in their research?
  • What are the integration challenges, if any, researchers encounter in their OGD use?
  • What expectations researchers bring to the use of OGD in their research?
  • What are the factors influencing researchers’ decision to use OGD in research?
  • What are the ways to improve OGD use in research?

Tools

Software to guide a systematic review (lit mining): https://parsif.al/

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