Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
Discovering Open Data
- Define open data
- Explain how cost and availability are key aspects of open
- Evaluate how to customise the definition of open data for different communities and requirements
- Differentiate between human and machine readable data
The Benefits of Working with Open Data
- Describe the benefits of working with open data
- Draw on successful case studies of open data use and publishing
- Explain how open data sits in the current economic climate
- Evaluate the success of open data projects and communities
Copyright, Licensing and Open Data
- Describe how copyright and licensing relate to open data
- Identify instances of open licences and effective application
- Build and use open licences
- Manage third-party data and sub-licensing
Making Data Usable
- Use Open Data Certificates to assess the usability of open data
- Apply the five stars of linked open data to analyse technical quality of data
- Describe the importance of persistent identifiers for data
Getting Hands-On with Open Data
- Discover a number of open datasets
- Evaluate the usability of an existing open dataset
- Identify a number of errors that exist in data
- Clean a dataset
- Validate data to assess usability
- Suggest a number of ways to improve the publication of open data
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