The new issue of the journal HMD - Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik examines open data from several perspectives and ties in with the Dresden Smart-City measure "Open Data for Citizens, Business and Administration". The aim of the measure is to systematically process urban data, make it easily accessible and increase its practical use - for administration, businesses and citizens. The basis for this is the Dresden Open Data Portal, which has been making data publicly available since 2019, thus promoting transparency and innovative applications. Responsible for the implementation of the open data measure are the municipal statistics office Dresden, which is responsible for the city's open data portal, and two Dresden professorships for business informatics (in particular information systems in industry and commerce and in particular business engineering).
One article in this issue is based on the event "60 minutes of online discussion: Open data - added value for citizens and society?", which was led by the two TU professorships at Dresden on June 24, 2025(https://doi.org/10.1365/s40702-025-01209-0). The topics discussed included what realistic added value open data offers for individual citizens and urban society, what challenges exist in terms of provision and use and what roles administration, science, business and the community play. Lioba Buscher (former head of the municipal statistics office Dresden), Katharina Ebner (FernUniversität Hagen) and Marco Sieber (open data specialist at the City of Zurich) took part in the discussion. The online event was moderated by Prof. Dr. Susanne Strahringer (Chair of Information Systems, in particular Information Systems in Industry and Commerce) and Prof. Dr. Martin Wiener (Chair of Information Systems, in particular Business Engineering).
Further articles produced as part of the Dresden Open Data project in the special issue:
- "From raw material to added value" outlines the prerequisites for real benefits from open data - from data quality and clear governance to common standards and cooperation through to systematic impact measurement (https://doi.org/10.1365/s40702-025-01212-5).
- "Mind the Gap - Value generation gaps along the open data value chain" identifies eight gaps from awareness to development, supply and competence to diffusion and impact and derives target group-specific starting points for citizens, administration and business (https://doi.org/10.1365/s40702-025-01207-2).
- "Design of open data portals: The perspective of tech-savvy users" addresses user-oriented design principles such as meaningful metadata, performant and stable APIs, efficient search and filter functions, clear licenses and comprehensible developer documentation that measurably facilitate use (https://doi.org/10.1365/s40702-025-01202-7).
All contributions are available Open Access.