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Record W4388947055 · doi:10.32920/24625011

Examining the Value of Geospatial Open Data

2023· preprint· en· W4388947055 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Sarah Greene, Claus Rinner

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGeographic Information Systems Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGeospatial analysisOpen dataOpen governmentTransparency (behavior)Volunteered geographic informationPublic participation GISThematic mapAccountabilityData scienceGeographic information systemGovernment (linguistics)Computer scienceGeographyWorld Wide WebPolitical scienceGIS and public healthComputer securityCartography

Abstract

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<p>Transparency, accountability, administrative efficiency, and economic development are the common motivations for making government datasets publicly available. Open data often include geographic references and may be offered in formats ready to be processed in geographic information systems (GIS). The present research contributes to assessing the value of these geospatial open data. We focus on the economic development goal of municipal open data programs, the available file formats, and their innovation potential. In a case study of four major Canadian cities, we analyze the thematic distribution and the prevalence of GIS-ready data files among available open datasets. For the City of Toronto, we also examine access statistics for the most popular open datasets and their use in developing digital products. The results of this research suggest that political, administrative, and public support for the future maintenance and expansion of open data may require strategic releases of datasets that demonstrably support the stated goals of the respective open data initiative.</p>

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Direct model labels (unvalidated)

Per-model category and study-design labels from the labeling rounds. They are machine output, unvalidated, and the disagreement between models ships as data. No study design here is MEDLINE-validated yet.

Model armCategoriesStudy designConfidence
gemmaOpen science
Domain: not available · Genre: Empirical
About the Canadian research system: yes · About a Canadian topic: yes
Observationalhigh
gptno category
Domain: not available · Genre: Empirical
About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: yes
Observationalhigh
models splitAgreement compares identical category sets and study designs across arms.

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.026
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.178
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesOpen science
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.998
Threshold uncertainty score0.137

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0260.178
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0080.017
Science and technology studies0.0030.007
Scholarly communication0.0120.012
Open science0.0020.005
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.389
GPT teacher head0.423
Teacher spread0.035 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Labeled directly by 2 models reading the full record.

Open science

The models disagree on parts of this classification; every voice is preserved in the section at the end of the page.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations3
Published2023
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

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