HUANG Haiying, LI Jialan, RAN Congjing
LIBRARY TRIBUNE. 2025, 45(11): 25-34.
During the critical period of improving the authorized operation mechanism of public data,promoting fair authorization and operation helps unlock its full potential,ensuring sustainable development and utilization. Public data possesses the attributes of quasi-public goods. Accordingly,authorized public data can be categorized as competitively acquired public data,as well as public data products or services. Focusing on these two categories of public data,it conducts a systematic review of China's practices using literature analysis and online research methods. The study identifies issues related to fairness,such as a lack of competition in authorization,homogeneous authorized entities,ambiguous pricing standards,and unreasonable revenue distribution. Through comparative analyses of the fairness principles of public data resource reuse in the EU and US,alongside China's governance advancements,the paper proposes specific fairness principles to guide local practices in China,such as openness and transparency,non-discrimination,and distributive justice. The study also recommends flexibly selecting between competition-based and direct authorization,and jointly delivering public data products and services through government,market,and nonprofit organizations. Furthermore,pricing practices should be based on a combination of government- and market-based prices,and revenues should be distributed in a manner that reasonably accounts for the contributions of all stakeholders.