Dataset: U.S. Public University Responses to Public Records Requests for Structured Data

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https://hdl.handle.net/11299/219041

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Keywords

Public Records Laws

Open Records Laws

Freedom of Information Act

FOIA

Data

Databases

Structured Data

Government transparency

Public universities

Collection period

2020-06-29
2020-12-30

Date completed

2020-03-09

Date updated

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Dataset: U.S. Public University Responses to Public Records Requests for Structured Data

Published Date

2021-03-10

Authors

Anderson, Jonathan

Wiley, Sarah K.

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Author Contact

Anderson, Jonathan
and08164@umn.edu

Type

Dataset
Field Study Data

Abstract

This dataset is the product of a study that assessed how public universities in the United States respond to public records requests of varying complexity for structured data. When a university provided a substantive response, the following variables were coded: 1. Nature of response: Whether the university produced responsive data, produced or offered different data than what we requested, asserted there were no records, required prepayment before processing, required in-person inspection, or denied the request. 2. Response time: The number of business days (i.e., omitting weekends and holidays) from the day after a request was filed to the day a substantive response was received. 3. Format: The format that data were released: Excel, CSV, PDF, or web page. 4. New record: Whether the university expressly asserted that it is not obligated to create a new record in response to a public records request. 5. Fee estimate: The amount of money a university estimated it would cost to process the request.

Description

Excel spreadsheet

Referenced by

Jonathan Anderson & Sarah K. Wiley, Freedom of the Database: Auditing Access to Structured Data, The Journal of Civic Information

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License

CC0 1.0 Universal
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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Data Repository for U of M (DRUM)

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Anderson, Jonathan; Wiley, Sarah K.. (2021). Dataset: U.S. Public University Responses to Public Records Requests for Structured Data. Retrieved from the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota (DRUM), https://hdl.handle.net/11299/219041.

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