Open data and the importance of the geographic data | gvSIG blog

“It’s worth to review MELODA (MEtric for reLeasing Open DAta), a metrics to calculate how much the data are reusable (and now there’s an alfa of an API), where the importance of the geographic component is totally demonstrated when we speak about Open Data.

In fact, MELODA analyzes six dimensions, one of which is the “geolocation” of the information. For each dimension there are 5 levels of reusability that have been considered.”