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How Can a University Take Its First Steps in Open Data?

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Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR 2020)

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Every university in Greece is obliged to comply with the national legal framework on open data. The rising question is how such a big and diverse organization could support open data from an administrative, legal and technical point of view, in a way that enables gradual improvement of the open data-related services. In this paper, we describe our experience, as University of Crete, for tackling these requirements. In particular, (a) we detail the steps of the process that we followed, (b) we show how an Open Data Catalog can be exploited also in the first steps of this process, (c) we describe the platform that we selected, how we organized the catalog and the metadata selection, (d) we describe extensions that were required, and (e) we discuss the current status, performance indicators, and possible next steps.

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Notes

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    http://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/home.

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    https://www.europeandataportal.eu/.

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    https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32013L0037&from=EN/.

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    http://ogpl.github.io/index-en.html.

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    https://www.tylertech.com/products/socrata.

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    http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.

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    https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/.

  8. 8.

    https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/.

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    https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/data-specifications/2892.

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    https://github.com/ckan/ckanext-dcat.

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    https://github.com/ckan/ckanext-geoview.

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    https://github.com/ckan/ckanext-pages.

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    https://github.com/NaturalHistoryMuseum/ckanext-ldap.

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    https://github.com/ckan/ckanext-googleanalytics.

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    https://rb.gy/0rqbdu.

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    http://opendata.uoc.gr/.

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  1. University of Crete, Heraklion and Rethymnon, Greece

    Yannis Tzitzikas, Marios Pitikakis, Giorgos Giakoumis, Kalliopi Varouha & Eleni Karkanaki

  2. Information Systems Laboratory, FORTH-ICS, Heraklion, Greece

    Yannis Tzitzikas

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Tzitzikas, Y., Pitikakis, M., Giakoumis, G., Varouha, K., Karkanaki, E. (2021). How Can a University Take Its First Steps in Open Data?. In: Garoufallou, E., Ovalle-Perandones, MA. (eds) Metadata and Semantic Research. MTSR 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1355. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71903-6_16

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