1. Evolution
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Offer open
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2. The Big Picture
Open Data Manual
Choose data sets
Apply an open license
Make the data available
Make the data discoverable

3. 1) Choose data sets
Data sets you already publish
Produced by yourself
Easy to be made available
Check with stakeholders
Check privacy and security concerns

4. 2) Apply an open license
Determine intellectual property rights
Identify owners of data set
Choose an appropriate license
Open Database License
Creative Commons “Attribution Share-Alike”
Check www.opendefinition.org
Get approval of owners

5. 3) Make the data available
A dump of the database: once, regularly
An API: big data sets, real-time data
Select a proper format
5-Star Scheme
Make it available under an open license
Make it available as structured data
Use a non-proprietary format
Use URIs to identify things to let others link to you
Link your data to other data sets

6. 4) Make the data discoverable
Link to it from your own website
Set up data.yourorganisation.org (or a page)
Add a link to open data registries
CKAN.net
IATIregistry.net
Search4dev
Announce to mailing lists, LinkedIn groups, etc

7. Principles
Keep it simple
Engage early and engage often
Address common fears and misunderstandings
Appoint dataset owners and connect them
Identify strategic areas to share data
Arrange licensing of materials by staff and
contractors
Make “open formats” part of IT projects

8. Read more...
opendatamanual.org
opendefinition.org
opendatacommons.org
ckan.net
opendatasearch.org
getthedata.org