An account of research on Open Government Data (2007- 2012): a systematic literature review

Open Government Data (OGD) is a government policy that is beingincreasingly adopted by several countries around the world. Despite its growingacceptance, there are still several difficulties both in making OGD available andensuring it is used effectively by society. A growing body of knowledge has been produced in the last few years in the e-government scientific community to addressthese problems. This paper conducts a systematic literature re-view on the questionof OGD, which is aimed at outlining a knowledge base of the existing scientificliterature on OGD produced in the period 2007-2012 that is available in the on-linedatabases of relevant scientific societies (ACM, AIS, IEEE). In doing so, the paper provides an overview of this knowledge base, and maps out the different researchapproaches that are being adopted to study OGD, its geographical scope and theapplication domain they refer to. The results indicate the need of broadening thegeographic coverage of OGD studies and also of deepening the discussion of quality criteria for assessing open dat