Making the most of Open Data

Making the most of Open Data

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  Making the mostof Open Data Westminster Higher Education Forum Keynote Seminar: Next steps for Open Access and Open Data research policy Tuesday, 22nd November 2016 Louise Corti Director, Collections Development and Producer Relations UK Data Service
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  Not just opendata …high quality open data • Pathways to access for data held by UK Data Service • Gaining ODI Platinum certification for open data • Running an App Challenge
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  • Builds on50 years of practice in data curation • 7000 data collections across social science spectrum (265 open) • Supporting the ESRC Data Policy since 1995 • Work with 1000s of data creators using accumulated tried and tested best practice • Host the prestigious UK governmental and academic surveys • Concordat with Office for National Statistics UK Data Service – trusted digital repository
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  Managing access toour data holdings • Download/online access under open licence without any registrationOpen • Download/online access to registered users who agreed to an End User Licence; possibly for special conditions, vetted projects etc. Safeguarded • Remote or safe room access to accredited authorised, authenticated, users whose research proposals and outputs have been approved Controlled Open where possible, closed when necessary
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  Our strategies forenabling safe access Trusted accredited digital repository  Informed consent for long-term data sharing  Protection of identities when promised  Regulated access where needed 5 SAFES - safe access to data. Fulfils demands for open science and transparency Safe data - Safe people - Safe projects – Safe settings - Safe outputs https://www.youtube.com/embed/Mln9T52mwj0?platform=hootsuite
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  Successful data ingest Standard depositors licences or data sharing agreements and End User Agreements  Use robust and explicit quality assessment techniques  Use standard deposit metadata and data description  Work to an agreed timetable for data publishing  training and capacity building to safely share research data
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  Open Innovation project- App Challenge.net • Open data and crowdsourcing project to generate innovative uses and outlets for our data • Created a harmonised open dataset over 2 waves • European Quality of Life survey • Data and disclosure control work with data owners • Engagement with Open Innovation Community • Platinum certification – Open Data Institute • Data delivered via an open API • Ran a App Challenge
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  Platinum certified dataset– a first
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  Blog on ‘quality’open data requirements
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  An open dataset:whose standards? • 90 questions – each answer = a URL - quality, provenance, ethics and legal, documentation, communication • Focus on machine readable & actionable metadata • Massive XML file: http://doc.ukdataservice.ac.uk/DDI25/7724.xml • Preservation vs. linked open data challenge • API data delivery Developers may NOT read our beautiful documentation! Requests to survey API must deliver weighted results
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  #EULIFE entries andwinners Crowdsourced app ideas from developers across the world • India, Sweden, Serbia, Germany, Finland, Estonia, Poland, the United Kingdom and New Zealand • Judges from Google, ODI, RSS, Digital Catapult, Transport API Winners: social facts in context • Quizzes – educational/fun – linked to evidence • Results linked to contextualised news • Social or community challenges • User-friendly visualisation for mobiles
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  Tomek Kwiatkowski fromPoland 18 years old: EuLife Quizzes
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  Data Quiz Apps- aimed at 11-16 year olds Thanks to Ralph Cochrane @AppChallenge https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.logtomobile.whoami&hl=en
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  UKDS Guidance andtraining resources
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