OPEN DATA - THE NEW GOLD WITHOUT THE RUSH
summary
Open data often arrives as messy legacy files that require more labour than buying commercial feeds, and reprocessing costs can exceed market alternatives; the team reviews 80 data observatories, builds cloud-hosted, API-driven pipelines and a prototype for the fragmented European music sector, and exposes concrete tools like the eurostat package (accessing ~20,000 indicators) plus regions package and retroharmonized workflows to handle 20,000 subnational boundary changes, aiming to automate validation and reformatting so open datasets become production-ready.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 0:41Open Data: The New Gold Without the Rush
- 2:26Why Use Open Data?
- 3:30What is Open Data?
- 9:37Open Data: Gold Without the Rush
- 10:17How Can You Trust Open Data?
- 12:11Research automation
- 12:57Data Observatories
- 15:52Digital Music Observatory
- 20:06OpenGov development efforts
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