Everything about Open data

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Open dataA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Data as an economic good, data as a commons, and data governanceInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Privacy, Big Data, and the Public GoodThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Pathway Commons, a web resource for biological pathway dataCited 972 times
5. Go sideways: Open scientific dataA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: FAIR dataA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Pathway Commons, a web resource for biological pathway data

  E. G. Cerami, B. E. Gross, E. Demir · 2010 · Nucleic Acids Research · 972 citations

• The NCI Genomic Data Commons

  Allison P. Heath, Vincent Ferretti, Stuti Agrawal · 2021 · Nature Genetics · 272 citations

• Before and After: Comparison of Legacy and Harmonized TCGA Genomic Data Commons’ Data

  Galen F. Gao, Joel S. Parker, Sheila M. Reynolds · 2019 · Cell Systems · 145 citations

• Uniform genomic data analysis in the NCI Genomic Data Commons

  Zhenyu Zhang, Kyle Hernandez, Jeremiah Savage · 2021 · Nature Communications · 136 citations

• Data analysis: Create a cloud commons

  Lincoln D. Stein, Bartha M. Knoppers, Peter Campbell · 2015 · Nature · 89 citations

• NCI Imaging Data Commons

  Andrey Fedorov, William J.R. Longabaugh, David Pot · 2021 · Cancer Research · 76 citations

• A Case for Data Commons: Toward Data Science as a Service

  Robert L. Grossman, Allison Heath, Mark Murphy · 2016 · Computing in Science & Engineering · 68 citations

• Embedding European values in data governance: a case for public data commons

  Jan J. Zygmuntowski, Laura Zoboli, Paul F. Nemitz · 2021 · Internet Policy Review · 45 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Data as an economic good, data as a commons, and data governance

  Nadya Purtova, Gijs van Maanen · 2023 · Law, Innovation and Technology · 34 citations

• Creating a data commons: The INternational Soft Tissue SaRcoma ConsorTium (INSTRuCT)

  Kirk D. Wyatt, Suzi Birz, Douglas S. Hawkins · 2022 · Pediatric Blood & Cancer · 34 citations

• Ten lessons for data sharing with a data commons

  Robert L. Grossman · 2023 · Scientific Data · 28 citations

• Data protection for the common good: Developing a framework for a data protection-focused data commons

  Janis Wong, Tristan Henderson, Kirstie Ball · 2022 · Data & Policy · 27 citations

• Empowering Data Sharing and Analytics through the Open Data Commons for Traumatic Brain Injury Research

  Austin Chou, Abel Torres-Espín, J. Russell Huie · 2022 · Neurotrauma Reports · 23 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Privacy, Big Data, and the Public GoodJulia Lane, Victoria Stodden · 2014
• Academic Library Development and Administration in ChinaLian Ruan, Qiang Zhu · 2016
• Representations of commonsense knowledgeErnest Davis · 1990
• 📕GeodataGeological Survey (U.S.) · 2008
• 📕Community informationGeological Survey (U.S.) · 2008
• 📕Governing Privacy in Knowledge CommonsBrett M. Frischmann, Madelyn R. Sanfilippo · 2021
• Installation Mapping Enables Many MissionsBeth E. Lachman · 2007
• Cognitive reasoningO. M. Anshakov, Tamas Gergely · 2006

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🔗 Related topics

• Open scientific data Open scientific data or open research data is a type of open data focused on publishing observations and results of scientific activities available for…
• FAIR data FAIR data is data which meets the 2016 FAIR principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability, first formally published in 2016…
• Open source Open source is the practice of publishing digital resources publicly alongside their source code or source files, enabling use, study, modification, and…
• Digital commons The digital commons refers to shared digital resources—such as software, knowledge, data, and cultural content—that are collectively produced and governed…
• Panton Principles The Panton Principles are a set of principles which were written to promote open science. They were first drafted in July 2009 at the Panton Arms pub in…
• Open science Open science (also known as open research) is the movement to make scientific research, including publications, data, physical samples, software, and models…
• Data collaboratives Data collaboratives (sometimes called "corporate data philanthropy") are a form of collaboration in which participants from different sectors—including…
• Grey literature Grey literature (or gray literature) is material and research produced by organizations outside of the traditional commercial or academic publishing and…