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The Big Picture

Open Data Manual

Choose data sets

Apply an open license

Make the data available

Make the data discoverable

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

2) Apply an open license

Determine intellectual property rights

Identify owners of data set

Choose an appropriate licenseOpen Database License

Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

Check www.opendefinition.org

Get approval of owners

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 SchemeMake it available under an open licenseMake it available as structured dataUse a non-proprietary formatUse URIs to identify things to let others link to youLink your data to other data sets

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 registriesCKAN.net

IATIregistry.net

Search4dev

Announce to mailing lists, LinkedIn groups, etc

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

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opendatamanual.org

opendefinition.org

opendatacommons.org

ckan.net

opendatasearch.org

getthedata.org

ODDC

Amsterdam, 12 and 13 May

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