Print Email Facebook Twitter Big and Open Linked Data (BOLD) in Research, Policy and Practice Title Big and Open Linked Data (BOLD) in Research, Policy and Practice Author Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. Kuk, G. Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Engineering, Systems and Services Date 2016-03-29 Abstract The value of data as a new economic asset class is seldom realized on its own. With less reliance on self-administered survey, it offers new insights into behaviors and patterns. Yet it is a huge undertaking of bringing together multiple actors from different disciplines and diverse practices to examine the underexplored relationships between types of data. There are different inquiry systems and research cycles to make sense out of big and open data (BOLD). We argue that deploying theories from diverse disciplines and considering using different inquiry systems and research cycles offers a more disciplined and robust methodological approach. This allows us to break through the limits of backward induction from the evidence by moving back and forward in exploring the unknown through BOLD. As such, we call for developing a variety of rigorous approaches to counterbalance the current practice in theory-free approach in the analysis and use of BOLD. Subject big dataopen dataBOLDpolicy-makinge-government To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:cb5f60bb-ff62-4296-a62d-b60784fd2ff4 Publisher Taylor & Francis Embargo date 2017-03-29 Source Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, 26 (1-2), 2016; Authors version Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2016 Taylor & Francis Files PDF Big_and_Open_Linked_Data_ ... actice.pdf 264.77 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:cb5f60bb-ff62-4296-a62d-b60784fd2ff4/datastream/OBJ/view