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.
Open Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition
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UNIT 1 - OPEN DATA PRINCIPLES
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
UNIT 3: MAKING OPEN DATA
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.