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 utilized effectively, it has the potential to yield significant power. It empowers businesses, individuals, developers, and researchers to utilize valuable resources that can bring about vital enhancements to their communities and contribute to economic growth. Moreover, it facilitates the creation of new products and services, enhances operational efficiency for businesses, and generates economic value.
Open Data also plays a crucial role in promoting public oversight of governments and combating corruption by fostering transparency. For example, Open Data simplifies the monitoring of government activities, such as tracking public budget expenditures and evaluating their impact.
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