Open Data

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Also see: http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/OpenGIS

Local Organisations

• http://www.code4sa.org

Sources

• http://sada.nrf.ac.za
• http://www.statssa.gov.za
• http://data.worldbank.org/country/south-africa
• http://data.okfn.org
• http://africaopendata.org
• http://www.afdb.org/en/knowledge/statistics/open-data-for-africa/

Software

• http://thedata.org - Research Data Management (RDM) - http://thedata.harvard.edu/guides/genindex.html
• http://ckan.org - General Data Management (GDM) - http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest
• http://datadryad.org
• http://drupal.org/project/dkan
• http://openglam.org
• http://opendatakit.org
• http://openrefine.org

Panton Principals

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panton_Principles
• http://pantonprinciples.org
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Murray-Rust
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Neylon
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Pollock
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilbanks

Standards

• http://opendatahandbook.org
• http://isacommons.org
• http://www.isa-tools.org
• http://opendatacommons.org

Definitions

• http://theodi.org/guides/what-open-data

Catalogs

• http://www.re3data.org
• http://databib.org

Examples

• http://southafrica.opendataforafrica.org
• http://opendataforafrica.org
• http://data.worldbank.org

Discussion

• http://duraspace.org/hot-topics

References

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data
• http://www.socrata.com/open-data-field-guide

Organisations

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Knowledge_Foundation
• http://www.opendataresearch.org
• http://opendataday.org
• http://www.theodi.org
• http://www.archiveteam.org

Storage

• http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/02/20/180tb-of-good-vibrations-storage-pod-3-0
• http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-more-secrets
• http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage

Visualisation

• http://selection.datavisualization.ch

Visualisation

• http://scikit-learn.org
• http://flowingdata.com
• http://www.infosthetics.com
• http://www.informationisbeautiful.net
• http://hint.fm
• http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes

News

• http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/science-public-enterprise/report
• http://duraspace.org/five-flavors-open-access-duraspace-research-data
• http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/integration/seven-resources-for-learning-about-open-data.html
• http://radar.oreilly.com/tag/data-economy