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open-data-china-delegation

Presentation on open data to a delegation of municipal archivists from China

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Open data

Catherine McGoveran • Government Information Librarian
University of Ottawa
catherine.mcgoveran@uottawa.ca

Presentation overview

What is open data?

Municipal open data

Open data at uOttawa

What is open data?

Three main principles

Availability and access

Re-use and redistribution

Universal participation

complete • timely • machine readable • unrestricted • permanent

More information is available through the Sunlight Foundation and through Open Knowledge

In Canada...

Federal

Provincial and territorial

Municipal

Open data across Canada

Click here to learn more about open data in Canada

Municipal data

Click here to explore this example of an application made from municipal data

Open data at uOttawa

teaching • research • open access

Open data hackfest

Ottawa Neighbourhood Study

Click here to learn more about this project

Research at uOttawa

Open data is used in diverse fields such as: biology, public and international affairs, history, communication, engineering, law...

Click here to learn more about uOttawa's institutional repository

Open data

collaboration • experimentation • discovery

Open data

Catherine McGoveran • Government Information Librarian
University of Ottawa
catherine.mcgoveran@uottawa.ca