Lőrinc Thurnay

Danube University Krems · Department of E-Governance and Administration

In this paper, we study the problem of agenda setting by news media in relation to the political discourse by politicians at the time of local elections. We first evaluate the applicability of the agenda-setting theory against the theory of policy agenda building to determine the possible alternative directions for constructing a political agenda a...

To get on a mutual ground as a team of computer scientists and legal experts, mapping open legal data, we had to shift our perspectives, dive into foreign concepts, and collaborate closely.

In this article, we study the relationship between diseases, human mobility, and the perception of authoritarian tendencies of governments. The thesis that we support is that a social system that is experiencing or has recently experienced infectious diseases decreases the mobility of the humans that belong to it. This, in turn, contributes to the...

The process of policy-modelling, and the overall field of policy-making are complex and put decision-makers in front of great challenges. One of them is present in form of including citizens into the decision-making process. This can be done via various forms of E-Participation, with active/passive citizen-sourcing as one way to tap into current di...

This paper introduces the ADEQUATe project—a platform to improve the quality of open data in a community-driven fashion. First, the context of the project is discussed: the issue of quality of open data, its relevance in Austria and how ADEQUATe attempts to tackle these matters. Then the main components of the project are introduced, outlining how...

Research on novel marketplaces like the Data Market Austria is increasing, along with the importance the European Commission attaches to the development of the European Data Economy. This leads to the anticipation that boosting the Data Economy may reveal new issues ofcontractual interpretation. Interpretationis generally the central question where...

The present work describes the ADEQUATe platform: a framework to monitor the quality of (Governmental) Open Data catalogs, to re-publish improved and linked versions of the datasets and their respective metadata descriptions, and to include the community in the quality improvement process. The information acquired by the linking and (meta)data impr...

The Data Market Austria (DMA) is an ecosystem of federated data and service infrastructures. It aims at making data from various data providers accessible and interoperable by allowing the submission , storage, management and dissemination of static datasets or streaming data services. By creating a metadata vocabulary, standardizing the ingest of...

This paper examines the possibilities of using the Estonian e-Governance infrastructure in an innovate manner to help displaced Estonian residents in a hypothetical national emergency. We begin by exploring the challenges that displaced persons and aid organizations face throughout three key stages of displacement – flight from conflict zones, temp...