Exploring Open Data, Open Repositories and Open Resources for scholarship and sharing.

1. Open Opportunities
Exploring Open Data, Tools, and Repositories
to extend scholarship and sharing
Oct. 24, 2013
Russ White
Numeric and Spatial Data Specialist
Robert E. Kennedy Library Data Services
Cal Poly State University San Luis Obispo
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2. Overview
• All Things Open
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Open Access
Open Government
Open Data
Open Source
Open Resources
Closing the loop, Open Repositories
• Altogether, Open Opportunities
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3. Open Access
“Open Access” to information is the free, immediate, online access to the
results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you
need.
This has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are
conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine,
science, industry, and for society as a whole.
• As explained, in 8 minutes by PHD Comics
• The Open Access Overview by Peter Suber
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4. Open Definition
• The Open Definition sets out principles that define “openness” in relation to
data and content.
It makes precise the meaning of “open” in the terms “open data” and “open
content” and thereby ensures interoperability between different pools of
open material.
• It can be summed up in the statement that: “A piece of data or content is
open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at
most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.”
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5. Open Government
Renewed focus on
transparency, public
participation, and
collaboration.
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6. Open Data Policy
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Information is a valuable national resource,
and strategic asset.
...manage information throughout its lifecycle
...promote openness and interoperability
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Executive Order Making Open and Machine
Readable the New Default for Government
Information
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Open Data Policy Guidelines from the
Sunlight Foundation
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7. Project Open Data
• Project Open Data is an online, public repository
intended to foster collaboration and promote the
continual improvement of the Open Data Policy.
• The project is published on GitHub, an open source
platform that allows communities of developers to
collaboratively share and enhance code. The
resources and plug-and-play tools in Project Open
Data can help accelerate the adoption of open data
practices.
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8. Government on GitHub

9. Open Data & Open Standards

10. Open Data
A primary goal of Data.gov is to improve
access to Federal data and expand
creative use of those data beyond the
walls of government by encouraging
innovative ideas (e.g., web applications).
98,544 datasets found...
223 organizations
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11. Federal Agency Repositories

12. State, City, Local Government
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13. Google Public Data
This may look familiar, from a previous TED talk
using data from the World Bank

14. Google Books and Ngram Viewer
This too, was described in a TED talk.

15. Open Source
• For List of free and open-source software packages:
Wikipedia
• The Free Software Dictionary
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16. Free and Open Source Software
Data Wrangler
Wrangler is an interactive tool for data
cleaning and transformation.
Spend less time formatting and more
time analyzing your data.
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17. Free and Open Source Software
Tableau Public
Tableau Public is for anyone
who wants to tell stories with
interactive data on the web.
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18. Open Source Software
LibreOffice
LibreOffice 4: The free office suite
the community has been dreaming
of for twelve years...

19. An Open Source Stack, Ecosystem?
OpenStreetMap
The Free Wiki World Map

20. Open Resources & Training Grounds

21. Closing the loop with Data Repositories
“Out of Cite Out of Mind” Report on Data Citation
Vision, T. J. (2010). Open Data and the Social Contract of Scientific
Publishing. BioScience, 60(5), 330–331. doi:10.1525/bio.2010.60.5.2

22. Finding Data Repositories
Databib.org
Registry of Research Data Repositories
The goal of re3data.org is to create a global
registry of research data repositories.
List of Repositories
from the Open Access Directory
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23. Data Repositories
From Acoustics to Zoology...
(but not quite everything in between)
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24. Open Repositories
DataDryad.org is a curated general-purpose repository that makes
the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely
reusable, and citable.
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25. Open Repositories
The easy way to get, use and share data
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26. And the data lives on...

27. Open Opportunities
• Open Access to the results of scholarly research
– Journal Literature, Datasets, Other Creative Works
• Beyond the Scientific or Academic Community- Government, Civic
engagement
• Open Data, Open Source, Open Resources
• Its' wide open.
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28. Further Reading
• The Open Data Handbook

29. Questions?
Thank you!
Russ White
Numeric and Spatial Data Specialist
Robert E. Kennedy Library Data Services
Cal Poly State University San Luis Obispo
rwhite@calpoly.edu
http://libguides.calpoly.edu/dataservices