As part of the 44th DGEKW Congress entitled ‘Analyses of Everyday Life: Complexity, Economic Cycle, Crisis,’ Katrin Amelang and Martina Klausner organised a panel on the topic of ‘Everyday Data – Constellations and Dynamics of Everyday Data Practices.’ The panel discussed the current significance and self-evident nature of data and datafication processes. Four presentations used various empirical examples to highlight the different aspects of everyday data and everyday data practices, their policies and infrastructures. Our project was represented here with a presentation on data sharing practices.
Opening and sharing administrative data as a means of establishing partial connections
Panel
Everyday data – constellations and dynamics of everyday data practices
Author
Martina Klausner
Abstract
There are growing calls for public administration data relating to various areas of citizens’ lives to be made publicly accessible and shared with various interest groups. My presentation focuses on the everyday practices of this opening up and sharing, using the example of Frankfurt’s city administration, and discusses how historically grown information architectures, legally and politically defined responsibilities, and formal and informal work processes shape this opening up and sharing in everyday work. At the same time, this focus highlights the diverse everyday work required to connect data sets, at least partially, and allows us to think about working with data beyond this specific case.