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Open Data Cafe @Mito #05

Sat, 01 Aug 2015 13:00 - 15:30 JST

Saza coffee Ibaraki University library cafe

Bunkyo 2-1-1, Ibaraki University library cafe 1st floor Saza coffee, Mito-shi, Ibaraki-ken, Japan

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Description

Let's talk about Open data in a casual style at the library cafe of Ibaraki University.

Open data -- The idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. Especially in government-owned data, the rationale behind open government data can be considered as twofold. First, advocates contend that making government data available to the public in open formats increases government transparency and accountability. Second, open data should enable third parties to leverage the potential of government data through the development of applications and services that address public and private demands.

We plan to hold open data cafe monthly basis. The cafe is located on the 1st floor of the main library for University Ibaraki. On the evening of the 1st Saturday, why don't you talk over open data in a casual mood?

Themes

Anything related to the open data.
We will provide you about the handy tools and latest news for open data.
Of course, we are happy to hear your stories or questions.

You can check the atmosphere from this blog (Sorry in Japanese)
http://codeforibaraki.org/?p=268

We have introduced many varieties of the tools for manipulating the data (Pentaho, iPython notebook, PStay, OpenRefine). But this time we changed the point of view, will introduce the data store service named DKAN. There are many data store products irrespective of both commercial and open source. DKAN is an open source distro developed by nucivic based on popular CMS Drupal. (You can easily guess, the name is coined from the combination of Drupal and CKAN)
http://nucivic.com/dkan/
And we will also talk about the news related to open data happened in July.

Prerequisites

None, anyone who is interested in the open data can attend.
Nothing you need to bring

Access to venue

25-minute bus ride from Mito Station. North exit of the Mito station, you can ride the bus for Ibaraki University at the bus terminal no.7. The head sign 「茨大行 (栄町経由) 」 or 「茨大前」 will bring you to the venue.

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  • Code for Ibaraki

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