Open Data Management Techniques Training
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Open Data Management Techniques Training Course
Introduction:
Open Data is data that anyone can access, use, or share and when used well it can be extremely powerful. It enables businesses, citizens, developers, and researchers to harness resources that can make crucial improvements to their communities and the economy. It can also help with the development of new products and services, improve business efficiency, and create economic value.
Open Data supports public oversight of governments and helps reduce corruption by enabling greater transparency. For instance, Open Data makes it easier to monitor government activities, such as tracking public budget expenditures and impacts.
This course provides new insight into the history of Open Data, its pros and cons, business cases, and business models related to publishing and using Open Data.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the Open Data Management Techniques course, you‘ll be able to:
- Develop Open Data Publication and Use strategies
- Identify potential Open Data Business Models
- Explore strategies in Open Data to enhance performance
- Describe Open Data and its relevance to business
- Investigate Open Data licensing and risk management
Who Should Attend?
This Open Data Management Techniques course is ideal for:
- Employees from private companies, third-sector organizations, and government departments.
- Previous participants have included: decision-makers, managers, civil servants, researchers, policy advisors, journalists, students, strategists, data owners, and publishers.
Course Outlines:
Discovering Open Data
- Define open data
- Explain how cost and availability are key aspects of open
- Evaluate how to customize 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 licenses and effective application
- Build and use open licenses
- 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 analyze the technical quality of the data
- Describe the importance of persistent identifiers for data
Getting Hands-On with Open Data
- Discover several open datasets
- Evaluate the usability of an existing open dataset
- Identify some errors that exist in the data
- Clean a dataset
- Validate data to assess usability
- Suggest many ways to improve the publication of open data
