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The Open Data Lab is an initiative spearheaded by the Data Science Institute at the University of Virginia. Partner organizations include: the UVA library, the Center for Open Science, and the Public Library of Science.
Goals:
- Reference Data - Provision of a large corpus of open research and other data (CC0) and associated analytics (OSI-approved licence) across disciplines to be an exemplar for the representation of open structured and unstructured reference data.
- Training - Use the reference data and analytics to train the next generation of data scientists and raise literacy around data at UVA and elsewhere.
- Reproducibility - Facilitate scientific reproducibility through execution of workflows associated with the data and analytics.
- Productivity - Science is currently a highly inefficient process. Provision of public executable workflows can accelerate the process.
- Public engagement - Open data exploration pipelines based on open data are a powerful means to engage with the broader public, both around open data and data science in general and the issues that they can help address.
- Broad Recognition - as a valuable community resource.
Currently we are in closed beta testing. If you are interested in the project please watch us on github and email [email protected]. Goals for closed beta:
- Establish storage platform
- Establish computation platform
- Establish discovery platform
- Being accumulating a corpus