data.md

About

This page provides some basic information around the data and resources that could be useful for doathon projects.

Definition

The focus of this event is on open data as defined by the Open Definition, which can be summarized as

Open means anyone can freely access, use, modify, and share for any purpose (subject, at most, to requirements that preserve provenance and openness).

Scope

We are interested in

• data along its entire life cycle (overview)
  • from making plans to capture data to the actual data capture, processing and sharing of data, integration across different sources, updates, citations and other forms of reuse.
• metadata
  • again all along the cycle, including ontologies and cases when original data may not be available any more
• other topics related to data
  • infrastructure
  • policies
  • education
  • usage
  • ethics
  • visualizations
  • discoverability

Getting started

Some starting points for finding/ exploring data:

• research data
  • University of Virginia
    • LibraData
  • international
    • re3data
• government data
  • federal
    • Open Data Portal
• Virginia
  • Open Data Portal
    • The Governor’s Opioid Addiction Crisis Datathon
  • Virginia Department of Health Data portal
    • Virginia Opioid Addiction Indicators
  • Annual Statistical Report from the Virginia Department of Social Service (VDSS)
  • Lynchburg Open Data portal
• Albemarle county
  • Visual Budget
  • Demographics
• Charlottesville
  • Open Data Portal
  • Cvillepedia
• other data resources
  • Open Data Inception
  • OpenStreetMap
  • Wikidata
  • Data Hub
  • a list with many further pointers — all free but possibly not open