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Open Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition Course

This free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Open Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition was first created in 2016. The course was delivered 5 times between November 2017 and November 2018, reaching over 5000 people globally, before being made available for unrestricted use

GODAN would like to thank GODAN Action partners, including Wageningen Environmental Research (WUR), AgroKnow, AidData, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), the Land Portal, the Open Data Institute (ODI) and the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA).

The course is also available in English, DOI registered through Zenodo, in Gitbook format.

Access Online Course Here - French

 

Access Online Course Here - Spanish

Open Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition

Click on the individual course module titles to view and download in .pdf format.

UNIT 1 - OPEN DATA PRINCIPLES

Lesson 1:1 What is Open Data

Lesson 1:2 Ethics in Open Data Lifecycle

UNIT 2 - USING OPEN DATA

Lesson 2:1 Discovering Open Data

Lesson 2:2 Quality and Provenance

Lesson 2:3 Data Analysis and Visualisation

Lesson 2:4 Open Data in Policy Cycles

Lesson 2:5 Referencing Data

UNIT 3: MAKING OPEN DATA

Lesson 3:1 Managing Datasets

Lesson 3:2 Managing Dynamic Datasets

Lesson 3:3 Creating and Managing Open Data Repositories

Lesson 3:4 Advocate for Capacity Development on Open Data

Annex  3:4: Farm Advice Through Open Weather Data

Lesson 3:5 Developing Strategies for Implementing Open Data Plans

Slides – How open data on land rights can improve global food security and nutrition

UNIT 4: SHARING OPEN DATA

Lesson 4:1 Guiding Frameworks for Data Sharing

Lesson 4:2 Introduction to Data Interoperability

Lesson 4:3 Structural and Architectural Interoperability

Lesson 4:4 Semantic Interoperability

Lesson 4:4:1 Using Published Semantics for Agronomic Data

UNIT 5: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COPYRIGHT

Lesson 5:1 Intellectual Property Rights

Lesson 5:2 Licencing Open Data

The authors involved in developing the course content are (in alphabetical order by name);

 

  • Alan Stanley, IDS
  • Hugo Besemer, formerly of WUR
  • Chipo Msengezi, CTA
  • Chris Addison, CTA
  • David Tarrant, ODI
  • Ilkay Holt, FAO
  • Imma Subirats, FAO
  • Jessica Meeker, IDS
  • Laura Meggiolaro, Land Portal
  • Lisette Mey, Land Portal
  • Pauline L'Henaff, ODI
  • Valeria Pesce, FAO
  • Rob Lokers, WUR

 

GODAN Action was funded by the UK Department for International Development.