The characteristics of government officials' information seeking in open data policy implementation: The perspective of Ellis' model

During the process of open data policy implementation, government officials have to conduct a variety of information seeking activities to obtain the needed information for deciding what datasets to open and what datasets can be opened with higher priority. Grounded in the existing information behavior literature, this study explores the characteristics of government officials' information seeking by employing Ellis' model. The preliminary findings, including starting, chaining, browsing, differentiating, monitoring, extracting, verifying, and ending, are briefly presented in this paper.