Presentation at SPINCAM Meeting, May 2014, Guayaquil

1. Open Data Repositories
Xavier Ochoa

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3. Open data is information that is
available for anyone to use, for any
purpose, at no cost.

4. Good Open Data
• can be linked to, so that it can be easily shared
and talked about
• is available in a standard, structured format,
so that it can be easily processed
• has guaranteed availability and consistency
over time, so that others can rely on it
• is traceable, through any processing, right
back to where it originates, so others can work
out whether to trust it

5. From Open Access to Open Data
Documents are not enough

8. http://datadryad.org/

9. http://thedata.harvard.edu/

11. http://www.data.gov/

12. http://www.ecuadorencifras.gob.ec/

13. Any institution could publish
open data
Specially big institutions

14. http://data.un.org/

15. http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOD/pr_wod.html

16. http://www.iode.org/

17. Where to find Open Data?

18. http://datahub.io/

19. http://www.re3data.org/

20. http://databib.org/

21. http://www.datacite.org/

23. Sounds good…
What to do to open my data?

24. Three guidelines
• Keep it simple
• Engage early and often
• Address common fears and misunderstandings

25. Four Steps
• Choose your dataset(s)
• Licensing
• Make the data available
• Make it discoverable

26. Chose Dataset
• Asking the community
• Cost basis
• Ease of release
• Observe peers

27. Licensing

28. Data that doesn’t explicitly have an
open license is NOT open data.

29. Ownership
• you get copyright over works (content) that
you create and which are original to you, such
as text that you write or photographs you take
• you get a database right over collections of
data that you have put a substantial effort into
obtaining, verifying or presenting (only EU,
Mexico, Brazil)

30. Open Licenses Creative Content

31. Open Licenses for Databases

32. http://opendatacommons.org/

33. Make the data available

34. Technical Availability
• Data should be complete
• In a (open) machine-readable format
• It should contain metadata

35. How to make it available?
• Your website
• Existing repositories
• Creating your own repository

36. Open Data Repositories
• Similar to Open Access Repositories
• Metadata support is different that for
documents
• Should support different types of data

37. http://ckan.org/

38. http://github.com/datadryad

39. http://aims.fao.org/tools/agridrupal

40. Making it Discoverable
• Publish it in Public services (Datahub)
• Index it in Catalog (Databib)
• Promote it in your community
• Engage with users

42. Conclusions
• Open Data is the new movement among Open
Access movement
• Mature enough to start using/contributing
• It is more a political than a technical decision
at this point
• Main issue: Why it is valuable for me?

43. Gracias / Thank you / Obrigado
Xavier Ochoa
xavier@cti.espol.edu.ec
http://ariadne.cti.espol.edu.ec/xavier
Twitter: @xaoch