Topic outline

  • Open Science and Open Data


    • Objectives

      Librarians can advise academic staff how to release their research data as ‘Open Data’.

      Notional hours: 3 hours



    • Zoom Meeting Link

      We start this week with an online meeting in real time. This 1-hour session will take place on DAY 21st MONTH 2024 @ 00h00 GMT.

      The meeting details are listed below:

      Meeting URL:

      		https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88268960338?pwd=emFaZUdZSjhnVDYwSWYrcDd3ZHMxQT09

      Meeting ID:

      882 6896 0338

      Passcode:

      077809

      Meeting agenda

      1. Facilitator will call on a participant to showcase their Open Access Journals assignment
      2. Formative assessment using Quizziz on Open Access Journals
      3. Watch the video: UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science
      4. Facilitator to present the PPT on Open Data
      5. Facilitator will introduce the RISE tutorial on Open Data


      Link to Quizziz quiz:       https://quizizz.com/join 

      OA Quiz Review

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    • Session 5: Recording of previous session
      Kindly click to access the recording for Session 5 HERE

    • Work through the interactive tutorial below.

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      Open Science and Open Data Interactive Tutorial SCORM package
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    • Instructions

      1. A new academic asks for advice on publishing their data openly. Their research project is funded by your national government. They ask what is the process in order to achieve this? What are the reasons why data should be closed or restricted?
      2. Respond to them via email and include the following points:
        1. Explain what open data is
        2. What is your institution's policy regarding publishing their data openly
        3. What is the process they should follow (if there is no policy at your institution, then follow best practice)?
        4. Recommend what type of licence they should use and what disclaimer to use
        5. Caution them against when data should be closed or restricted
        6. Refer them to a national (if not national, then international) open data repository as an example of where they can publish their data and emphasise the format the data should be in
      3. Be ready to show case your email in the next online Zoom meeting
      4. Copy the content of the e-mail into a MS Word document. Upload the file  using the workshop tool below. Peruse the marking rubric before you submit your assignment.
      5. Note this is another peer-to-peer marking assignment. You need to submit one document and mark 3. 

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      Open Science and Open Data Assignment Marking Rubric File
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      Open Science and Open Data Peer Review Assignment Workshop
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      Submissions open: Sunday, 22 June 2025, 12:30 PM
      Submissions close: Sunday, 29 June 2025, 12:29 PM
      Assessments open: Sunday, 29 June 2025, 12:30 PM


    • Download the course notes below. They are in a PDF format. Feel free to print them out for safe keeping.

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    • Attribution and references

      The following resources were used as part of the tutorial and are listed here for your reference:

      1. Data. Creative Commons. 2019. https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Data CC-BY. Date Accessed: 20 September 2023
      2. DataCite Metadata Schema 4.4. DataCite. 2021. https://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-4.4/ Date Accessed: 20 September 2023
      3. Minimum Metadata. SAEON Open Data Platform Wiki. https://odpwiki.saeon.ac.za/minimum_metadata_for_the_saeon_odp CC-BY-SA. Date Accessed: 20 September 2023
      4. Open Data Commons. Open Knowledge. CC-BY https://opendatacommons.org/ Date Accessed: 20 September 2023
      5. Open Data Handbook. Open Knowledge. https://opendatahandbook.org/ Date Accessed: 20 September 2023
      6. Open Data. Creative Commons. https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/open-data/ Date Accessed: 20 September 2023
      7. Open Data. PLOS. https://plos.org/open-science/open-data/  Date Accessed: 20 September 2023
      8. Open Knowledge Primer for African Universities Revised and Updated Edition. May 2023. Lisbeth Levy. CC BY. https://www.oerafrica.org/system/files/12591/open-knowledge-primer-june-2023.pdf?file=1&type=node&id=12591&force=1  Date Accessed: 20 September 2023
      9. Understanding Open Science. UNESCO. 2022. CC BY-SA https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000383323 Date Accessed: 20 September 2023
      10. UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. 20 February 2023. https://www.unesco.org/en/open-science/about?hub=686 Date Accessed: 20 September 2023



    • Creative Commons License

      Openness Course for Librarians by AfLIA is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.