WUN Data Diplomacy Workshop

Data Sharing & Standards

Dr Simon PriceResearch IT Manager and Visiting Fellow in Computer Science

Outline

1. Open Data2. Not-so-open Data3. Some questions for discussion

Open Data

Open Public Data

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140+ datasets live on opendata.bristol.gov.uk Some real time data Transport API repository now available Examples

Government: Elections since 2007 Community: Quality of Life survey Education: School Results Energy: Installed PV, Energy Use in Council Buildings Environment: Real time & Historic Air Quality, Flood Alerts (EA) Land use: 2013 Planning applications Health: Life expectancy/ Mortality, Obesity, NHS Spend

Bristol is Open - datasets

Open Data

Open Research Data - data.bris

• Research Data Storage Facility• Each researcher gets 10TB "forever"• Open Data Publication

data.bris data publication

Not-so-open Data

Sharing - including sensitive data

Funders

Journals

data.bris has 3 levels of access:

data.bris wider picture

Mediated Data Sharing

• Launched in 2003 and redeveloped in 2013-15

• Used by over 85% UK HEIs

• Used for benchmarking data sharing "clubs"

www.onlinesurveys.ac.uk

Bristol Online Surveys

BOS Benchmarking "Clubs"

Sharing "un-sharable" data

DataSHIELD is an R library that enables the remote and non-disclosive analysis of sensitive research data. Users are not required to have prior knowledge of R.

Data Sharing & Standards

Some questions for discussion...

• Freely available data isn't free so who should pay for sharing the data?

• What are the pros and cons of mediated data sharing?

• What are the "standards" for data diplomacy?• And does that question even make sense?