This document discusses open data sharing and standards. It provides examples of open data sets available through Bristol's open data portal, including government, community, education, energy, environment, and health data. It also discusses open research data storage at the University of Bristol, as well as challenges with sharing sensitive or not-so-open data, and tools for mediated or remote data sharing like the Bristol Online Surveys system and DataSHIELD library. It concludes with questions around who should pay for data sharing, the pros and cons of mediated sharing, what standards exist for "data diplomacy", and whether that last question even makes sense.

1. WUN Data Diplomacy Workshop
Data Sharing & Standards
Dr Simon Price
Research IT Manager and Visiting Fellow in Computer Science

2. Outline
1. Open Data
2. Not-so-open Data
3. Some questions for discussion

3. Open Data

4. Open Public Data

5. 5
 140+ datasets live on opendata.bristol.gov.uk
 Some real time data
 Transport API repository now available
 Examples
 Government: Elections since 2007
 Community: Quality of Life survey
 Education: School Results
 Energy: Installed PV, Energy Use in Council Buildings
 Environment: Real time & Historic Air Quality, Flood Alerts (EA)
 Land use: 2013 Planning applications
 Health: Life expectancy/ Mortality, Obesity, NHS Spend
Bristol is Open - datasets

6. Open Data

7. Open Research Data - data.bris
• Research Data Storage Facility
• Each researcher gets 10TB "forever"
• Open Data Publication

8. data.bris data publication

9. Not-so-open Data

10. Sharing - including sensitive data
Funders
Journals
data.bris has 3 levels of access:

11. data.bris wider picture

12. Mediated Data Sharing

13. • Launched in 2003 and
redeveloped in 2013-15
• Used by over 85% UK HEIs
• Used for benchmarking
data sharing "clubs"
www.onlinesurveys.ac.uk
Bristol Online Surveys

14. BOS Benchmarking "Clubs"

15. Sharing "un-sharable" data
DataSHIELD is an R library that
enables the remote and non-disclosive
analysis of sensitive research data.
Users are not required to have prior
knowledge of R.

16. Data Sharing & Standards
Some questions for discussion...
• Freely available data isn't free so who should pay for
sharing the data?
• What are the pros and cons of mediated data sharing?
• What are the "standards" for data diplomacy?
• And does that question even make sense?