data portals

A page for notes, links and resources related to research on data portals – including related to article on “What do data portals do? Tracing the politics of online devices for making data public”. Contact me for other materials or details

• GitHub as Transparency Device in Data Journalism, Open Data and Data Activism co-convened with Liliana Bounegru and Stefania Milan at Digital Methods Summer School 2015
  • DMI tools pertaining to Github conceptualised by Liliana Bounegru as part of her PhD work on platformised coding in journalism
• “What Do Data Portals Do?” co-convened with Sabine Niederer at the Digital Methods Winter School 2017, where I gave a talk on digital methods and data infrastructures alongside keynotes from Geoffrey Bowker and Shannon Mattern
  • Bipartite network showing CKAN data portals and extensions they share (network visualisation) - based on earlier version from Digital Methods Winter School 2017
  • Comparison of changes in data portal interfaces over time
• “What do data portals do? Tracing the politics of public information infrastructures on the web” talk at Data Publics conference, Lancaster University, April 2017
• Is this Open Data Portal accessible? co-convened by Guillén Torres and Jeroen de Vos at the Digital Methods Summer School 2017
• Data portal explorer tool (repository, code and documentation) conceptualised and developed with Jose Miguel Monteiro Vieira.
• data.gov.uk at 1 year/second (2009-2022) (video)
• data not found - a dataset of datasets that were sought but not found on data portals around the world (from research for my Data Worlds book)
• selection of national open data portals (figshare dataset) and interface features of a selection of national open data portals (figshare dataset)

Related links and resources:

• dataportals.org - a list of data portals around the world
• wayback machine - for past captures of data portal interfaces
• wirify bookmarklet - for “reverse wireframing” data portal interfaces
• color extraction tool from TinEye labs for colour analysis of data portal interfaces
• imagemagick - for creating composites images of data portal interfaces
• ffmpeg - for compositing screenshot playbacks of data portal interface captures from wayback machine
• pandas - for analysis of data portal metadata
• openrefine - for cleaning and analysis of data portal metadata
• gephi - for network analysis of relations between portals and themes, apps and tags, etc.
• raw graphs - for visualisation of data portal software repositories, data topics, etc.