The document discusses the need for standardization of open budgetary data in the Brazilian public administration. It identifies requirements for open government data from the literature, including being complete, timely, accessible, and machine-readable. An analysis of 88 transparency portals in Brazil found most only met 2-star open data standards. The authors conclude standardization is needed to make data more usable for consumers and propose future work to further review literature, explore open budget initiatives, and prototype a system.

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Challenges and requirements for standardisation of open
budgetary data in the Brazilian public administration
Marcelo Tavares de Santana and Gisele da Silva Craveiro
University of São Paulo
Workshop on Open Gov Data
Standardisation

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Outline
● Motivation
● Background
● Methodology
● Results and Discussion
● Conclusion and Future Work

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Motivation
● Access to information is essential for transparency in
government actions
– Budgetary data on the web
– Better access, good for democracy (IMF, OECD,IFAC)
● Web portals observed in many countries since early 2000s
● Heterogeneity levels, no standards
● Open Government Data and Open Government initiatives since
2009
● New elements to this discussion

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Brazilian context
● Brazilian legal recommendation demands the public entities
to disclose in real time, detailed information on the financial
and budget execution, in accessible electronic media.
● It has started in 2009 and in May 2013 was the final deadline
for compliance.
● Budgetary data disclosure still not compliant with the laws
● Brazil as an Open Government Partnership member (former
co-chair)

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Methodology
● Exploratory research
● Brazilian legal framework on budgetary disclosure on
the web
● Consumers point of view
● Data and Information Quality research works
● Documents from organizations that work with
publication and consumption of open gov data
● Diagnostic and some challenges perceived

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Requirements identified
complete primary
timely acessible
machine processable
non-discriminatory
non-proprietary
license-free
permanence
low usage costs
on the Web
unique identifier
link data
SLF, 2010
BERNERS-LEE, 2009
OGWG, 2007
OGD PRINCIPLES
LINKED DATA
provenance information
HARTIG, 2009
providing alternatives of access
SHERIDAN and TENNISON, 2010
make discoverable
OKF, 2011
vocabulary versioning
KÄFER et al., 2012
use metadata
ZUIDERWIJK et al., 2012
POWELL, 2009

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ALONSO, 2004
Layers of an Information
System Model

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Resource Management Layer
complete primary
timely acessible
machine processable
non-discriminatory
non-proprietary
license-free
permanence
low usage costs
on the Web
unique identifier
link data
OGD PRINCIPLES
LINKED DATA
provenance information
providing alternatives of access
make discoverable
vocabulary versioning
use metadata

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Application Logic Layer
complete primary
timely acessible
machine processable
non-discriminatory
non-proprietary
license-free
permanence
low usage costs
on the Web
unique identifier
link data
OGD PRINCIPLES
LINKED DATA
provenance information
providing alternatives of access
make discoverable
vocabulary versioning
use metadata

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Presentation layer
complete primary
timely acessible
machine processable
non-discriminatory
non-proprietary
license-free
permanence
low usage costs
on the Web
unique identifier
link data
OGD PRINCIPLES
LINKED DATA
provenance information
providing alternatives of access
make discoverable
vocabulary versioning
use metadata

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client = data consumers
complete primary
timely acessible
machine processable
non-proprietary
license-free
permanence
low usage costs
on the Web
unique identifier
link data
OGD PRINCIPLES
LINKED DATA
provenance information
providing alternatives of access
make discoverable
vocabulary versioning
use metadata

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Some challenges
● Brazil is a federation – 26 states, 5,570 municipalities
● Autonomy principle – diferente solutions
● Most initiatives classified as 2-star

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Challenges - Brazilian outlook
Complete 57.98%
Primary 17.16%
Timely 4.40%
Accessible 86.73%
Machine processable 30.07%
Non-discriminatory 98.82%
Non-proprietary 30.07%
License-free 0%
Compliance with OGD principles – 88 transparency portals and
almost 300 datasets (Craveiro et al., 2013)

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Some challenges
● To charge public managers to guarantee that the
application logic layer solutions implemented extract all
data from resources and represent complete and primary
data in presentation layer.
● To convince managers to publish data into standards that
are structured and can be linked.
● The lack of a standard also become hard the delivery of
data in other formats, what increases data usage cost.

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Conclusion
● Need for standardization – looking from the perspective of
a data consumer.
● Derivation of requirements from scientific literature and
civil society organizations reports
● Mapping this requirements to layers of an Information
System model

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Future Steps
● More exhautive literature review
● To explore Open Budget Index and related initiatives
● To prototype a proof of concept system

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Questions and comments?
Danke! Thank You! Obrigada!
Gisele da Silva Craveiro, Marcelo Tavares de Santana
giselesc@usp.br - marcelo.tavares@usp.br