Open Data in Ubiquitous Systems Research –

Assignment on Open Data Search Heli Väätäjä (heli.vaataja@gmail.com)

http://opendatainubiresearch.blogspot.fi/ Tampere University of Technology, Finland

UBINET Seminar for doctoral students in HCI and CS, 18.5 & 12.6, 2015 Seminar day 1,18.5.2015 SB204

OPEN DATA AND OPEN RESEARCH DATA

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5-star proposal for open data (http://5stardata.info by Tim Berner’s Lee)

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Types of licences

• Prepared licence – by institution • Bespoke licence – created by you (check with

your research office) • Standard licences

– Creative Commons – Open Data Commons – Open/Non-Commercial Government licence – Public Domain – Multiple licensing

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Assignment • What kind of open data or open science data can you find related to

your research topic? • Search following data repositories, for example (links on blog page

”Seminar work”): – Research data: OpenAIRE https://www.openaire.eu/ – Open data in Helsinki Region, Finland: http://www.hri.fi/en/ – Finnish open access and data repositories (page in Finnish):

http://blogs.helsinki.fi/openaire2020/kotimaiset-julkaisuarkistot/ – Aila - Finnish Social Science Data Archive:

https://services.fsd.uta.fi/index?lang=en – Zenodo - http://zenodo.org/ – re3data.org - http://service.re3data.org/search

• Report your search and ideas on how to use the data you found in your research in link: http://goo.gl/forms/e3cM8QF8cV

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Assignment reporting • Name • Where did you search? • Keywords you used • What did you find that could be useful for you? • How could you use the data? • Ideate a study that uses this data • Licensing? Permission for use? • Other? • Use form link in the blog or SEND to

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