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Open up your institution's data

This challenge is for professionals in cultural institutions who are interested in opening up their data as open culture data.

The course will guide you through the different steps towards open data and provide you with extensive background information on how to handle copyright and other possible issues.

The different steps will force you to think about different aspects of your data that could lead to a more efficient data infrastructure and a coherent data policy with great internal benefits for your institution.

P Time it should take to complete:
1 hrs

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1. Introduction View and Discuss What's open culture data all about?
2. Inventory View and Discuss Let's take a look at your collections
3. Choose your data wisely View and Discuss What to consider when picking your first dataset to open?
4. Choose your license View and Discuss Learn more about Creative Commons licenses and pick the one that's best for your purposes
5. Preparing your data for publication View and Discuss Some things to consider before publishing
6. Write a data blog View and Discuss Explain your data to re-users
7. Add your data to a repository View and Discuss Make sure your data can be found by adding it to an online repository

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