Semi-automated data publishing tool for advancing the Indonesian open government data maturity level case study: Badan pusat statistik Indonesia

Abstract

Open Government Data (OGD) refers to the data produced or commissioned by the government or the government-controlled entities that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed by anyone. In Indonesia, the creation and use of OGD have been supported by the government since 2011. However, in contrary, the maturity level of the OGD published on the publishing sites is quite low, scoring only one up to three stars out of the maximum five stars according to the global Five Star Open Data standard. This paper describes a solution for the problem in the form of a semi-automated publishing tool that could be used to advance the current OGD maturity level in Indonesia. Government agencies, represented by their administrators, could use the tool to process their existing data into the more mature ones. The tool would take government data in the form of Excel and CSV files, or in other words 2-star and 3-star respectively, and process them into the maximum 5-star data in various formats. The main framework of the tool is developed based on an existing framework, extended to give more detailed steps and match to the case study at the Badan Pusat Statistik Indonesia (Indonesian Central Bureau of Statistics). Based on the evaluation, the tool can level up the existing data's maturity level from 2-star and 3-star to the maximum 5-star based on the Five Star Open Data Standard. This promising result encourages the authors to develop the tool even further in another research and the authors have also provided some possible further development based on the result of this work.