Open Data

• http://www.scoop.it/t/open-knowledge
• data.gov.au (CKAN)
• data.nsw.gov.au (CKAN), and
• data.vic.gov.au (bespoke)
• http://researchdata.ands.org.au/
• The European project Open Data Support (see https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/ods/description) conducts a harvesting and harmonisation of the meta data accross all (national) European Data Portals. In the http://data.opendatasupport.eu/ sparql endpoint you find the original data from the portals and their harmonised counterpart.
• http://data.linkededucation.org/linkedup/catalog/ and http://data.linkededucation.org/
• http://oaspa.org/principles-of-transparency-and-best-practice-in-scholarly-publishing/
• http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/01/07/data-citation-and-sharing-whats-in-it-for-me/
• http://www.darpa.mil/OpenCatalog/index.html (announcement)
• https://nycopendata.socrata.com/
• http://www.govtech.com/data/Palo-Alto-Proclaims-Open-Data-as-Default-for-City.html
• http://datadryad.org/
• Some folks might be interested in following the openFDA is a project with the Food and Drug Administration—a project to build modern APIs for easier developer and researcher access to public FDA datasets around adverse events, structured product information, and recalls: http://open.fda.gov/
• EBSCO, one of the biggest providers of a boatload of content of many types to libraries, has just decided to make its metadata freely available to discovery services without requiring use of their API: http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2014/05/metadata/ebsco-opens-metadata-third-party-discovery-services/ This involves "all metadata for 129 of its full-text databases, more than 550,000 ebooks and more than 70 historical digital archives." They are doing this in alignment with NISO's "Open Discovery Initiative" (ODI): http://www.niso.org/workrooms/odi/
• http://datacatalogs.org/ aims to be the most comprehensive list of open data catalogs in the world. It is curated by a group of leading open data experts from around the world - including representatives from local, regional and national governments, international organisations such as the World Bank, and numerous NGOs.
• http://www.oclc.org.libproxy.rpi.edu/data.en.html
• http://okfnscot.github.io/open-data-scotland/
• http://blog.opencorporates.com/2014/02/27/new-api-version-released-corporate-networks-accounts-and-more/
• http://socialhealthinsights.com/2014/06/openfda-api-launch-success/
• http://data.opendataportal.at/dataset?organization=ibm-osterreich
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_07_05
• Bristol University has launched a Research Data Repository using the CKAN data portal http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/
• http://www.meetup.com/Africa-Open-Data/events/195684502/
• http://data.opendatasupport.eu/describe/catalog/gr/
• http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/getty-thesaurus-of-geographic-names-released-as-linked-open-data/

Challenges:

• http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/brdi/PGA_085255