OpenCon and Open Data Day
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The document discusses OpenCon2014, an event focused on open data and open government. It mentions several speakers at the event including Meredith Niles and Erin McKiernan. It also discusses various open data initiatives and platforms including Dataverse, Dryad, Figshare, World Bank Dataverse, and data portals for India, Pakistan, and other countries. It highlights the value of open data for transparency, participation, innovation and more. Specific open agriculture and soil data resources are also mentioned.
OpenCon and Open Data Day
- 1. OpenCon2014 & Open Data Day Sridhar Gutam, PhD @gutam2000
- 2. OpenCon2014
- 4. OpenCon2014 - Swag Bags
- 6. Attendees
- 8. Speakers
- 9. Meredith Niles, one of the activist early career researchers behind the California Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Act, speaking at OpenCon 2014 in November, Washington DC She is now a post-doctoral fellow in sustainability science at Harvard University.
- 10. Erin McKiernan Physiologist. Neuroscientist. Tweeting on my research, #science news, #openaccess publishing, and occasional random thoughts. #neuroscience #physiology #math
- 11. Workshop on Right to Mine
- 12. At Senate, US Capitol
- 13. With Iryna Kuchma and Heather Joseph
- 14. With John Wilbanks and Carolina Rossini
- 15. Open Data Book
- 16. Open Definition
- 17. Why Open Data It is already possible to point to a large number of areas where open government data is creating value. Some of these areas include: • Transparency and democratic control • Participation • Self-empowerment • Improved or new private products and services • Innovation • Improved efficiency of government services • Improved effectiveness of government services • Impact measurement of policies • New knowledge from combined data sources and patterns in large data volumes
- 21. Dryad
- 23. Dryad Data – Journals
- 24. Figshare
- 25. Sridhar Gutam @ Figshare
- 26. Data Book IASRI - Hindi
- 27. Data Book IASRI
- 28. Online Data - IASRI
- 30. India’s National Data Policy
- 31. Data.gov.in
- 33. Open Data Sites
- 34. Open Data - Agriculture
- 35. Open Data India
- 36. Open Data - Agriculture
- 37. Google Apps
- 38. SoilInfo
- 39. Soil pH Map
- 42. Ranchi spotted
- 43. Soil Map – R Software
- 44. Wheat data WG