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

Abstract

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.

EMAKG: An Enhanced Version Of The Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph

“…Due to data richness and high coverage, the MAKG has been employed in several research fields and scenarios, including bibliometrics and scientific impact [27][28][29], recommender systems [30], data analytics (i.e., Nesta business intelligence tools 26 ), and benchmarking [31]. Further, the MAG, to which the MAKG originally derives, has been extensively investigated [32][33][34] and used for scientific ethics and mobility networks [24,25], and in COVID-19 related studies [35,36].…”

“…The proposed improvements could open new analyses and applications of the dataset. Among the possible research areas, data could be used to measure institutions' research output [29] and for the science of science [55] also considering the geographical dimension at different spatial resolutions. Authors' connections can be leveraged to study the knowledge exchange.…”

“…One of the strengths of the MAKG is its free distribution, which allows free, direct and unlimited access via RDF knowledge graph dump with resolvable URIs 27 , a public SPARQL endpoint 28 and via Zenodo 29 . Although the advantages of the triples-RDF format are pointed out in [3], the skill level needed to access the dataset could represent a limit.…”

A comprehensive review of open data platforms, prevalent technologies, and functionalities

“…One of the most appropriate definitions is developed based on several existing considerations. Open data needs to follow up the steps for it to be completely open [3], [4]. Open data should be complete and must be uploaded in a complete manner.…”

“…illustrates the 5-star linked data properties, explanation, complexity for the publisher and consumer, and type of license. There are many digital licenses available in open data, but we only talked about the most common ones4 . Therefore, the searchability and metadata(specification) of the data in an open government portal or open data portal is a crucial consideration when selecting a portal for data publication[16],[17],[18],[19].…”