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From how the Natural History Museum collects artefact data, to how artists turn data into creative artworks, we work with, showcase and promote the use of data in art, culture and heritage.

ODI Experts

Dr Dave Tarrant
Senior Learning Advisor
Hannah Redler Hawes
Associate Art Curator / Director, Data as Culture
Harmeet Chagger-Khan
Artist
Olivier Thereaux
Head of Technology

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Blogs

Blog 13/10/2015
Natural History Museum: 'We hope people will discover new species with our open data'
- Arts, culture and heritage
By digitising and releasing its collection of 80 million specimens for anyone to access, the Natural History Museum engages people around the world to discover, analyse and even 3D print them

Events

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ODI Fridays: The problem with using open source for building humanitarian tools Fri, 17 Jan 2020, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Humanitarian response
Ushahidi’s lead designer Eriol Fox will share how they’ve been working out how open source design can work for humanitarian aid
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ODI Fridays: How housing data benefits Scrooge and hurts Bob Cratchit Fri, 20 Dec 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Built environment and housing
Martin Boyd from the pioneering charity Leasehold Knowledge Partnership describes the long history of flawed housing data and why that always benefits Scrooge and hurts Bob Cratchit
Talk
ODI Fridays: Untangling your secret data architecture Fri, 13 Dec 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
Simon Worthington from Register Dynamics will explain how to find the architecture, untangle it and make it useful for everyone – including why doing it saves you time and money and lets new innovation happen
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ODI Fridays: How the NSPCC protects the data of users online Fri, 01 Nov 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data ethics and privacy
Learn about the NSPCC’s data ethics journey to ensure all interactions support their work to safeguard children
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ODI Fridays: Is open data dead? Fri, 15 Nov 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data infrastructure
- Policy
Mike Rose will discuss his hypothesis that open data as an outcome is dead and we need to refocus how we approach open data going forwards

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Hannah Redler Hawes

Harmeet Chagger-Khan

Olivier Thereaux

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