An Analysis of High-Value Datasets: A Case Study of Thailand’s Open Government Data

Abstract

Thailand’s national open data portal (data.go.th) has been launched since 2013, having over 1,000 datasets publicly available andprovided by 107 data providers. However, there exists very limited study about these datasets which is vital to the improvement of Thailand’s Open Government Data (TOGD). Hence, this paper aims to fill this needt Specifically, its objectives are threefold: 1) to evaluate domain coverage of high-value datasets with respect to the global standards, 2) to analyze TOGD datasets with respect to their available data fields and categorization, and 3) to evaluate the datasets’ qualities, and thus provide process and policy guidelines to overcome the quality weaknesses. In our in-depth study, the high-value datasets announced by Electronic Government Agency of Thailand (EGA) were comprehensively and thoroughly analyzed.