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: JASPAR 2024: 20th anniversary of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profilesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Ender's GameThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The cBio Cancer Genomics Portal: An Open Platform for Exploring Multidimensional Cancer Genomics DataCited 15,692 times
5. Go sideways: Open scientific dataA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: FAIR dataA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The cBio Cancer Genomics Portal: An Open Platform for Exploring Multidimensional Cancer Genomics Data

  Ethan Cerami, Jianjiong Gao, Ugur Dogrusoz · 2012 · Cancer Discovery · 15,692 citations

• Visualization and analysis of atomistic simulation data with OVITO–the Open Visualization Tool

  Alexander Stukowski · 2009 · Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering · 15,582 citations

• Benchmarking open government: An open data perspective

  Nataša Veljković, Sanja Bogdanović-Dinić, Leonid Stoimenov · 2014 · Government Information Quarterly · 218 citations

• Innovation with open data: Essential elements of open data ecosystems

  Anneke Zuiderwijk, Marijn Janssen, Chris Davis · 2014 · Information Polity · 209 citations

• Data sharing: An open mind on open data

  Virginia Gewin · 2016 · Nature · 178 citations

• From Open Data to Open Science

  Rahul Ramachandran, Kaylin Bugbee, Kevin Murphy · 2021 · Earth and Space Science · 129 citations

• Open Government and (Linked) (Open) (Government) (Data)

  Christian Philipp Geiger, Jörn Von Lucke · 2012 · JeDEM - eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government · 87 citations

• Open data work: understanding open data usage from a practice lens

  Erna Ruijer, Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen, Jochem van den Berg · 2018 · International Review of Administrative Sciences · 81 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• JASPAR 2024: 20th anniversary of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles

  Ieva Rauluseviciute, Rafael Riudavets-Puig, Romain Blanc-Mathieu · 2023 · Nucleic Acids Research · 1,298 citations

• OpenGAN: Open-Set Recognition via Open Data Generation

  Shu Kong, Deva Ramanan · 2025 · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 37 citations

• Criteria for the identification of ineffective open data portals: pretender open data portals

  Alberto Abella, Marta Ortiz-de-Urbina-Criado, Carmen De-Pablos-Heredero · 2022 · El Profesional de la información · 18 citations

• The Open Data Canvas–Analyzing Value Creation from Open Data

  Yingying Gao, Marijn Janssen · 2022 · Digital Government: Research and Practice · 17 citations

• Where is open data in the Open Data Directive?

  Heather Broomfield · 2023 · Information Polity · 13 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Ender's GameOrson Scott Card · 1985
• The Soul of a New MachineTracy Kidder · 1981
• IBM PC ApprenticeInc. Wordware Pub., Leonard Paul Kubiak · 1984
• Introduction to AlgorithmsThomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson · 1990
• Electric circuitsJames William Nilsson, James W. Nilsson · 1983
• Open source intelligence techniquesMichael Bazzell · 2012
• Digital image processingRafael C. Gonzalez, Richard E. Woods · 1977
• Accounting information systemsMarshall B. Romney, Paul J. Steinbart · 1997

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 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…