Section: Principles and practice of open data | Geospatial Models and Representations | Z_GIS

Section: Principles and practice of open data | Geospatial Models and Representations | Z_GIS

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General
- Introduction Forum
- Development feedback Forum
  
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- Learning Objectives (module level)
  
  describe basic approaches to digitally representing real world features
  
  work with increasing abstraction levels of data models with a focus on the ANSI-SPARC conceptual level
  
  select adequate vector and/or raster representations depending on theme characteristics
  
  distinguish and apply standard W*S services with an emphasis on open data / services
  
  understand architectures and purpose of Spatial Data Infrastructures and their main components
  
  integrate standard services into simple web apps

Principles and practice of open data

Principles and practice of open data
- Learning Objectives
  
  explain the rationale and value of open access and open data
  
  distinguish license models around creative commons (cc)
  
  explore and experience open data portals, distinguish open data vs open services
  
  recognize open data as a core element of SDI and geospatial ecosystems
  
  awareness of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)
- Section overview
  
  Pop out | Video
- Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide (TED talk, 5min) URL
  
  DO NOT miss this ...!
- What is Open Data? URL
  
  An excellent, concise and comprehensive summary of open data including a 3min cc video - take your time to fully explore this module and work through the quizzes at the end! Then ... you actually should complete this entire course at https://data.europa.eu/elearning/en/#/id/co-01 or at least those modules you consider of interest.
- What is Open Data? (short article from Open Data Handbook) URL
- cc creative commons licenses URL
- ODbL Open Database License URL
- data.europa.eu portal URL
- UCGIS BoK DC-29 - Volunteered Geographic Information URL
  
  An increasing amount of spatial data is collected 'involuntarily' through mobile apps and user tracking. Preferably, though, we rely on 'crowd-sourced' data contributed by volunteers, reaching far beyond OpenStreetMap.
- Search for open data on ArcGIS Hub URL
- OSM: A year of edits (2013) URL