I have seen glossaries of what the different terminology means when it comes to open data. On the data.gc.ca website there is a list of things, if you want to look up the background of open data.
I think, though, there's a divide that's happened. I think the divide exists between government as well as those involved in public administration and those with expertise in the area of data use. Data scientists are probably the best example of that. Governments, for example, seize data sets in a bit of a smaller way than the data scientists who want to use the data. I think there's room for more ongoing consultation and more ongoing dialogue between those two groups in particular to say, okay, well, what is it you need; what makes a complete data set?
A complete data set isn't maybe just a range of data sets with the same information for different provinces; maybe it's one big data set with all the provincial data in it. That data set can be easily comparable, or combined with other data sets, so that it can be used well. I think that conversation needs to happen a little bit more.
But as you say, we're still in the infancy of this. There's certainly room for that conversation to continue.