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• Blog, Guides 21/02/2019
  

  New tool for city leaders and urban planners to ‘get ready for data’

  • Public administration services
  • Cities

  • Fiona Smith
  • Leigh Dodds
  • Peter Wells

  ‘Get ready for data’ is a tool designed to help city leaders, officials and urban planners get ready to collect, use and manage data
• Blog, Guides 20/12/2018
  

  GeoJson schema publishing: a prototype

  • Data publishing and use
  • Geospatial data and mapping

  Using today’s tools for working with geospatial data, it is not possible to define data schemas for the properties section of a GeoJson file. We have been sketching how this could work in a publishing tool and would like feedback
• Guides, Reports 09/05/2018
  

  How can smart contracts be useful for businesses? (report)

  • Emerging tech and AI

  • James Maddison
  • Jared Robert Keller

  Smart contracts and distributed ledgers might be useful for enabling efficient, trusted interactions, but it depends on context and design
• Guides, Reports 03/05/2018
  

  Registers and collaboration: making lists we can trust (report)

  • Data publishing and use

  • Leigh Dodds

  This report is about registers or lists, and ways of publishing and maintaining them
• Blog, Guides 06/04/2018
  

  Explainer: What is personal data and how can I control how it's shared?

  • Data ethics and privacy

  • Alexandra Vryzakis
  • Anna Scott
  • Jack Hardinges
  • Jeni Tennison
  • Peter Wells

  How can data about me be collected, shared and used? Can I control where data about me goes? We demystify these questions and explain why we want stronger data rights  
• Guides, Reports 23/03/2018
  

  Mapping data ecosystems

  • Data infrastructure
  • Peer networks

  • Josh D'Addario

  In this guide, we introduce a tool for documenting and mapping data ecosystems
• Guides 03/11/2017
  

  What is 'open data' and why should we care?

  • Banking and finance
  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Emerging tech and AI
  • Innovation
  • Peer networks
  • Public administration services
  • Search and discovery
  • Cities
  • Transport
  • Weather, energy and environment

  • Anna Scott

  What is ‘open data’, and how does it fit in? Here are 10 things you need to know…
• Blog, Guides 05/08/2017
  

  The Data Ethics Canvas

  • Data ethics and privacy
  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Public administration services
  • Skills and literacy

  The ODI has developed a new approach for organisations to identify and manage data ethics considerations: the Data Ethics Canvas
• Guides 26/12/2016
  How to write a good open data policy

  • Open standards and open APIs

  • Leigh Dodds

  The ODI believes that creation of an open data policy is an important element of developing a strong open data practice
• Guides 31/08/2016
  Principles for strengthening our data infrastructure

  • Data ethics and privacy
  • Data infrastructure
  • Open standards and open APIs
  • Transport

  Data is infrastructure. Here’s why it’s important today.
• Guides 31/08/2016
  Openness principles for organisations handling personal data

  • Data ethics and privacy
  • Data infrastructure
  • Innovation

  • Ellen Broad

  Being open about how personal data is used, and how privacy is protected, helps to build trust in organisations collecting and using personal data
• Guides 31/05/2016
  White paper: Shareable by default: creating resilient data ecosystems

  • Open standards and open APIs

  The exploration of data techniques that can be used to benefit the wider open data community
• Guides 17/05/2016
  Open Data Skills Framework

  • Skills and literacy

  • Dr Dave Tarrant

  The open data skills framework is a simple, three-tier framework that describes the knowledge and skills of anyone interacting with open data, from beginner through to expert level.
• Guides 26/10/2015
  Benchmarking open data automatically This reports explores how feasible it would be to conduct automated open data research
• Blog, Guides 27/09/2015
  Open Data Maturity Model

  • Data publishing and use

  The Open Data Maturity Model is a way to assess how well an organisation publishes and consumes open data, and identifies actions for improvement.
• Guides 22/09/2015
  What are the impacts of non-open licences?

  • Open standards and open APIs

  This guide outlines the key considerations that inform licensing decisions
• Blog, Guides 06/08/2015
  

  Five stages of data grief

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use

  • Jeni Tennison

  The ODI has developed a new approach for organisations to identify and manage data ethics considerations: the Data Ethics Canvas
• Blog, Guides 27/02/2015
  How To Use R To Access Data On The Web

  • Data publishing and use
  • Search and discovery

  Analysing or using data without software is incredibly cumbersome if not impossible. Here we show you how you can import data from the web into a tool called R. Reasons why R has become so popular, and continues to grow, are that it’s free, open source, with state-of-the-art practices and a fantastic community.
• Blog, Guides 18/12/2014
  What is a CSV? A case study of CSVs on data.gov.uk

  • Data publishing and use

  • Jeni Tennison

  CSV stands for comma-separated values. It is a simple format for tabular data and relatively easy to process. We analysed more than 20,000 links to CSV files on data.gov.uk – only around one third turned out to be machine-readable.
• Guides 29/11/2014
  White paper: Enhancing open data with identifiers Creating value with identifiers in an open data world
• Guides 22/09/2014
  How to plan and budget an open data initiative

  • Innovation

  A guide to support open data leaders in government, and those considering implementing an open data initiative
• Guides 31/07/2014
  Save the Titanic: Hands-on anonymisation and risk control of publishing open data The transition from personal data into data you can publish
• Guides 22/07/2014
  Marking up your dataset with DCAT DCAT will simplify the process of certifying your dataset as the application will be able to automatically populate some of the answers for you
• Guides 22/01/2014
  FAQs - About the ODI

  • Sir Nigel Shadbolt

  Key questions about the Open Data Institute
• Guides 31/12/2013
  What makes data open? The truth around open data
• Guides 31/12/2013
  Publisher's Guide to the Open Data Rights Statement Vocabulary An introduction to the ODRS vocabulary, and includes a number of worked examples that illustrate how to use the vocabulary to publish rights metadata in a number of different ways
• Guides 31/12/2013
  Reuser's Guide to Open Data Licensing

  • Leigh Dodds

  All you need to know about open data licensing
• Guides 23/12/2013
  Re-user's Guide to the Open Data Rights Statement Vocabulary This guide provides some advice on how to use metadata published in the ODRS vocabulary within your applications to help simplify the process of attributing and citing the sources of your data
• Guides 22/12/2013
  How will open data affect me? How open can change they way we live our lives
• Guides 22/12/2013
  Engaging with reusers Explicit community building, engagement and outreach work can help to maximise the value that your data brings to your organisation and to others
• Guides 15/12/2013
  Publisher's Guide to Open Data Licensing

  • Leigh Dodds

  What does it mean to license data? What licence should you use? How can you indicate the licence that a dataset is available under? This guide answers these questions
• Guides 29/11/2013
  The Open Data Consumer Checklist Accessibility, Ownership & Licensing, Form, Quality and Support
• Guides 20/10/2013
  How to make a business case for open data Four steps to maximise the advantages of opening data