Investigating The Sustainability Of New Kinds Of Web Open Government Data What is Open Government? A growing worldwide community of academics, policy makers, developers, citizens with a goal to create a transparent and open government through the release of government data A New Kind of Web Activity? The activity of the Open Government Data communities are changing the way society, businesses and governments are engaging with the Web and digital technologies US vs. Canada UK vs. Denmark NZ vs. AU Measuring Sustainability What Can Be Measured Examining the deposit activity of Worldwide Data catalogs. Tracking the frequency and size of dataset deposits using ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories, roar.eprints.org) by utilizing available metadata. How Does it Help? Monitoring the activity levels of Open Government Data catalogs provides a measure to the continuous commitment to publishing data and transparency, providing a metric for stakeholders to compare Supporting Growth How to Support Development? A range of tools and metrics can be used at various stages of the development process to support the Open Government initiative. Its growth is a socio-technical process that requires the commitment of various stakeholders – during development and after public engagement. A Development Framework Building on Tim Berners-Lee’s Web Development Process, Actor-Network Theory provides a framework to conceptualize the various processes involved and reflects the continuous efforts of stakeholders required [Mobilisation] Idea Social Technical Design In-house Development Issues Public Engagement [Problematisation] [Interessement] [Enrolment] [Stabilisation] Tools/Metrics Data tracking techniques (such as ROAR) Interaction of actors – Weblogs and Web content Tools/Metrics Literature /Publication Metrics Actor identification support through social media Interaction metrics – meetings, workshops Content analysis of interested actors Worldwide Open Government Data Catalogs ROAR Data deposit Activity Graphs of Open Government Data Portals Framework to Support The Development of New Kinds of Web Activity [Ramine Tinati, Dr Leslie Carr, Prof Susan Halford, Prof Catherine Pope]