This document defines and provides examples of open data, open government data, open policy, open science, and open linked data. It explains that open data is data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed subject to attribution and share-alike requirements. Open government data allows citizens to participate in government decisions. Examples of open data portals for different governments are provided. The document also discusses how open data, including research data, can be shared and used under open licenses to advance science and education.

1. Understanding
Javiera Atenas
UCL STEaPP
@jatenas

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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 infographics
using OD to explain concepts.
• Students can develop maps, software and
application using OA and OSS