1. Information What is Open Data? “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.” From http://opendefinition.org/ http://opendefinition.org/ Is Free Data New? Free Data Is not New! ●Census Consortia in Canada (1980’s – 1990’s) ●Stats Canada’s Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) – 1996 What Can We Do with Open Data? ●Mashups (examples of Google Map Mashups) ●Apps that help people (OCBusTracker, using Ottawa OC Transpo bus data) ●Make data more accessible for people (e.g. http://freethought.ca) http://freethought.ca ●New research using existing (recycled) data (examples?) ●Examples of how people are mining Twitter data? What Are the Challenges of Open Data? ●Lost data (very few research projects save their data) ●Canadian Copyright law and lack of Canadian data license (copyright is implicit even when it’s on the web) How Can Academic Libraries Participate in Open Data? ●Libraries and librarians have skills essential for supporting Open Data: ○Many libraries already offer data and GIS/map literacy support ○Libraries have archiving, metadata, copyright, and licensing expertise ○Many libraries are already hosting other types of repositories for their institution’s research ●Some institutions have started building data repositories/portals Open Data Applications Open Data Supporters Angus L. Macdonald Library

2. Information What is Open Data? “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.” From http://opendefinition.org/ http://opendefinition.org/ Is Free Data New? Free Data Is not New! ●Census Consortia in Canada (1980’s – 1990’s) ●Stats Canada’s Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) – 1996 What Can We Do with Open Data? ●Mashups (examples of Google Map Mashups) ●Apps that help people (OCBusTracker, using Ottawa OC Transpo bus data) ●Make data more accessible for people (e.g. http://freethought.ca) http://freethought.ca ●New research using existing (recycled) data (examples?) ●Examples of how people are mining Twitter data? What Are the Challenges of Open Data? ●Lost data (very few research projects save their data) ●Canadian Copyright law and lack of Canadian data license (copyright is implicit even when it’s on the web) How Can Academic Libraries Participate in Open Data? ●Libraries and librarians have skills essential for supporting Open Data: ○Many libraries already offer data and GIS/map literacy support ○Libraries have archiving, metadata, copyright, and licensing expertise ○Many libraries are already hosting other types of repositories for their institution’s research ●Some institutions have started building data repositories/portals Open Data Applications Open Data Supporters Angus L. Macdonald Library

3. Information Is Free Data New? Free Data Is not New! ●Census Consortia in Canada (1980’s – 1990’s) ●Stats Canada’s Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) – 1996 What Are the Challenges of Open Data? ●Lost data (very few research projects save their data) ●Canadian Copyright law and lack of Canadian data license (copyright is implicit even when it’s on the web) How Can Academic Libraries Participate in Open Data? ●Libraries and librarians have skills essential for supporting Open Data: ○Many libraries already offer data and GIS/map literacy support ○Libraries have archiving, metadata, copyright, and licensing expertise ○Many libraries are already hosting other types of repositories for their institution’s research ●Some institutions have started building data repositories/portals Open Data Applications Open Data Supporters Angus L. Macdonald Library What is Open Data? “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.” From http://opendefinition.org/ http://opendefinition.org/ What Can We Do with Open Data? ●Mashups (examples of Google Map Mashups) ●Apps that help people (OCBusTracker, using Ottawa OC Transpo bus data) ●Make data more accessible for people (e.g. http://freethought.ca)http://freethought.ca ●New research using existing (recycled) data (examples?) ●Examples of how people are mining Twitter data?

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5. Free Data Is not New ●Census Consortia in Canada (1980’s – 1990’s) ●Stats Canada’s Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) – 1996 What Can We Do with Open Data? ●Mashups (examples of Google Map Mashups) ●Apps that help people (OCBusTracker, using Ottawa OC Transpo bus data) ●Make data more accessible for people (e.g. http://freethought.ca)http://freethought.ca ●New research using existing (recycled) data (examples?) ●Examples of how people are mining Twitter data? What Are the Challenges of Open Data? ●Lost data (very few research projects save their data) ●Canadian Copyright law and lack of Canadian data license (copyright is implicit even when it’s on the web) How Can Academic Libraries Participate in Open Data? ●Libraries and librarians have skills essential for supporting Open Data: ○Many libraries already offer data and GIS/map literacy support ○Libraries have archiving, metadata, copyright, and licensing expertise ○Many libraries are already hosting other types of repositories for their institution’s research ●Some institutions have started building data repositories/portals What is Open Data? “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.” From http://opendefinition.org/http://opendefinition.org/