Open Data Management Techniques Training
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Open Data Management Techniques Training Course
Introduction:
Open Data refers to data that is accessible, usable, and shareable by anyone. When effectively utilized, it possesses tremendous power. Open Data empowers businesses, citizens, developers, and researchers to tap into valuable resources that can drive significant improvements in their communities and contribute to economic growth. It also plays a crucial role in fostering innovation, facilitating the development of new products and services, enhancing business efficiency, and generating economic value.
Beyond its economic benefits, Open Data serves as a catalyst for public oversight of governments and helps combat corruption by promoting transparency. For example, Open Data facilitates the monitoring of government activities, such as tracking public budget expenditures and their impacts.
This course offers a fresh perspective on the history of Open Data, exploring its advantages and disadvantages, as well as the business cases and models associated with publishing and utilizing Open Data. Participants will gain valuable insights into the potential of Open Data and how it can be effectively leveraged to drive positive change and create value in various sectors.
Course Objectives:
By the end of 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 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