Understanding

Javiera AtenasUCL STEaPP

@jatenas

What is

• Open data is data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike. (OKFN, 2013).

• Open Data can be big or small, and is normally related with public data but can also be research data, organisations’ data, policy data, hackatons’ data or any other type of data.

Open Gov Data

• Open Government benefits us all. With increased transparency and citizen participation, governments are as effective as they can be (OpenGov. 2013).

• Open Gov Data allow citizens to be participants of the decisions made by national, regional or local government

http://openinggovernment.com

http://www.opengovguide.com

Open Gov Data

• Open data portals European Unionhttps://open-data.europa.eu/en/data/

• http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/open-data-0• Public data Europe http://publicdata.eu• UK Open data http://data.gov.uk• French Government https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/• German Parliament Open

Datahttp://offenesparlament.de• Glasgow open data http://data.glasgow.gov.uk• Amsterdam Open Data

http://amsterdamopendata.nl/en

Independent OD projects

• Monithon IT http://www.monithon.it

• DataKind UK http://www.datakind.org

• Transparency International http://www.transparency.org.uk

• Desarrollando América Latina http://2013.desarrollandoamerica.org

• Mapping for Change http://www.mappingforchange.org.uk

Open Policy

• Policy (National, institutional, regional, local) made on an open (data, content, license) base.

• Open Policy = publicly funded resources are openly licensed resources (OPN, 2014).

• http://openpolicynetwork.org

• https://openpolicy.blog.gov.uk

• http://theodi.org

Open Science

• Open science means many things, but primarily scientific knowledge that people are free to use, re-use and distribute without legal, technological or social restrictions. (OKFN, 2014)

• Open Science includes : open data, open access and open research

http://www.openscience.org/blog/

http://science.okfn.org

Sharing scientific data

• Figshare: Repository of research outputs http://figshare.com

• Open Science Framework https://osf.io

• Open Science Data Cloud https://www.opensciencedatacloud.org

Opening up Science (and data)

• OA removes price barriers (subscriptions, licensing fees, pay-per-view fees) and permission barriers (most copyright and licensing restrictions) (Suber, 2013).

• Open Access (OA) stands for unrestricted access and unrestricted reuse. Here’s why that matters (PLOS, 2012).

• UCL discovery http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk

• PLOS http://www.plos.org

Open Linked Data

• OLD refers to scientific data available to scholars which is linked to different sources

• http://linkedscience.org/data/linked-brazilian-amazon-rainforest/

• DBpedia http://dbpedia.org/About

• Linked Data http://linkeddata.org

How to use OD in T&L (OEP)

• Academics can embed Open Educational Practices in the curriculum (OER, OA, OAJ, OSS)

• Students can use OD sets for their research and share their results under CC licenses.

• Students can edit / create Wikipedia pages using information from AD sets and OA papers.

• Students can create posters and infographicsusing OD to explain concepts.

• Students can develop maps, software and application using OA and OSS