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In addition to new insights, practical guidance and multiple disciplinary perspectives on open data, the book also addresses the transformation of current developments towards open data, which may be referred to as the democratisation of data.
This book will support open data practitioners as well as open data scholars in their endeavours to promote open data implementation and research.
Ba tiaan van Loenen is associate professor and director of the Knowledge Centre Open Data at the Faculty of Architecture and The Built Environment of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, as isGlenn Vancauwenberghe, who is a post-doctoral researcher, andJoep Crompvoets is a professor at the Public Governance Institute of the KU Leuven in Belgium.