Evidence of meeting #20 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was sets.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Conservative
Diane Ablonczy Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB
Ms. Bates, are you finding that this sort of refining of the initiative is bearing some fruit? Is that starting to draw in more end users in a practical way, or does more research need to be done at this point?
Lecturer in Information Politics and Policy, Information School, University of Sheffield
I think more research would need to be done to ascertain whether that approach was drawing in more users.
I think in the U.K. the approach seems to have been to develop a business case and the higher economic impact scores that you've seen in the open data barometer compared to the example of social impact scores perhaps indicate that the approach is leading to impacting the economic sector.
I would also just point out that in the U.K. the approach has been towards people developing business cases for opening up government data, so it's very economically driven.
Although there is a data unlocking service, civil society accessors have found it quite difficult to access the data sets they need through that service, so the triaging that is going on seems to be directed towards certain ends at the minute.
Conservative
Diane Ablonczy Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB
Thirty-five seconds....
Ms. Da Sylva, from the point of view of an end user, then, do you see greater focus starting to occur, and is it something that is useful to you?
Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Université de Montréal
To focus on...?
Conservative
Diane Ablonczy Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB
To focus on what types of information is spread out on a priority basis.
Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Université de Montréal
I think we're still at a discovery stage. A lot of users are just finding out that this is available and are having fun sorting through it, but I'm not sure we're at that point.
NDP
The Chair NDP Pierre-Luc Dusseault
Thank you.
I would like to thank the witnesses and all of the committee members.
This brings our meeting to an end. I am sure that the expertise of the witnesses will assist our committee in its study on open data. It will certainly assist in the drafting of its report.
Once again, thank you for appearing before us.
A reminder to committee members that we will meet again in two weeks. Thank you.
The meeting is adjourned.