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opendata / Open-Data-Census

A census of U.S. states' open data holdings.
https://census.usopendata.org/
MIT License
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Should we really grade "without cost" so gently? #47

Closed waldoj closed 8 years ago

waldoj commented 8 years ago

There are datasets that are really solid, only they only way to get them is to pay $3,000, and they're graded at an A or a B. But it's not really open data, is it? I'm OK with having such a grade for data that isn't published under an open license / no license, because this is generally unintentional on the state's part. So the "open" part meaning free of licensing doesn't really warrant a grading smack-down. But how can we give an "open data" set a good grade if it's not, practically speaking, available to almost anybody?

waldoj commented 8 years ago

Two weeks later, I think it's more important than 5% of the score. But I'm not sure what to score it at. So here's another way to think of it: if a dataset is published perfect, except that it's being sold, what score should it get? 95%? 90%? 80%? 75%? Think about this.