OpenData Manager: uma ferramenta para gerenciar o processo de criação e monitoramento do plano de dados abertos

Abstract

Access to public information has been shown to be of great importance in strengthening the relationship between society and government by enabling a greater interactivity in public actions by the society. The development of systems that use this type of information in favor of good use of public resources is one of several examples that can be used to show how important access to such a data is. After Decree nº 8,777, which regulated the opening of public data of Federal Executive Government, many institutions and entities started their activities to make their data available. All steps for opening the data are specified in the implementation manual of Open Data Policy made available by Office of the Comptroller General (OCG). One of the steps to open the data is the writing of all performed actions, until the cataloging of data on open data platforms. The document in which these actions are recorded is called Open Data Plan (ODP). OCG considers that a public institution has its data open only when its ODP is published accordingly to several organization and quality criteria. OCG currently maintains an open data monitoring panel, in which it is possible to check which public entities have their data made available following these criteria. By consulting this panel, it is observed that less than half of public institutions has a published ODP. Among 223 institutions of Federal Executive Government, only 84 has a published ODP. Among the published ODPs, most of them do not have an efficient system for monitoring actions and goals defined throughout its elaboration because they were written in plain text format, without any automation in the monitoring process, as suggested by OCG. To solve the problem of preparing the Open Data Plan accordingly to OCG quality and monitoring recommendations, both during and after the elaboration of the ODP, this work presents a tool that was developed to encompass all the steps described in the development manual of an ODP. The tool also allows the monitoring of all actions that need to be performed during and after cataloging the open data.