A Survey on the Status of Open Data and Its Future

Abstract

This survey paper looks at the open data, which is one of the most important elements of developing smart city and universal village. This paper focuses on the relationship between open data and smart city and the evaluation of open data projects. It describes the reason why data needs to be opened up, how open data should be evaluated, the current status of open data projects, and the challenges the open data developers are facing. Besides, the paper introduces the open data platform of the United Kingdom as a case study to explain open data project in the end.