Open Access Data Repositories

Peter Suber has been working with colleagues to create a Wiki of Open Access Data repositories. From his blog

List of data repositories The Open Access Directory (OAD) list of Data repositories is now open for community editing.

OAD is a wiki, and you can help the cause by adding or revising entries to its lists.

Data repositories are becoming very important now and it’s clear that they are primarily useful if they are Open. Some subjects such as bioscience have had a long history of Open data repositories – and if the Wiki listed every one it would dominate the field.

Of course there are lots of nuances to discuss. What is Data? and what is Open? And I’ve spent time on this blog discussing these. At present I’ll just reiterate that we should label data as “Open Data” (from the Open Knowledge Foundation). And should protext freedom with Community Norms, not licences or contracts.

Every creator of an Open data resource should label it as such. All you need is:


This material is Open Knowlege
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