Abstract—In recent years, we have witnessed increasing interest in government data. Many governments around the world have sensed the value of its passive data sets. These governments started their Open Data policies, yet many countries are on the way converting raw data into useful representation. This paper surveys the previous efforts of Open Data initiatives. It discusses the various challenges that open data projects may encounter during the transformation from passive data sets towards Open Data culture. It reaches out project teams acquiring their practical assessment. Thus, an online form has been distributed among project teams. The questionnaire was developed in alignment with previous literature of data integration challenges. 138 eligible professional participated, and their responds has been analyzed by the researcher. The result section identifies the most critical challenges from project-teams’ point-of-view, and the findings show four obstacles that stand out as critical challenges facing project teams. This paper casts on these challenges, and it attempts to indicate the missing gap between current guidelines and practical experience. Accordingly, this paper presents the current infrastructure of Open Data framework followed by additional recommendations that may lead to successful implementation of Open Data development.

Index Terms—Open data, data integration, government data processing, e-government, open government data, project management, project management office.

Usamah A. Algemili is with George Washington University, Washington DC, USA (email: gemiliu@gwu.edu).

Cite: Usamah A. Algemili, "Outstanding Challenges in Recent Open Government Data Initiatives," International Journal of e-Education, e-Business, e-Management and e-Learning vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 91-102, 2016.