This week, we celebrate Open Data Day. Since 2010s, during the first week of March, the benefits of open data are celebrated worldwide. Open data is digital data that is made available with the technical and legal characteristics necessary for it to be freely used, reused, and redistributed by anyone, anytime, anywhere [1]. Open Data Day is coordinated by the Open Knowledge Foundation. Every year, it invites communities of open data enthusiasts from all over the world to celebrate this occasion in their city. Once tied to a specific day, now Open Data Day is celebrated throughout the whole week to accommodate all the events scattered around the world, i.e. hackathons, exhibitions, etc.
Each year, Open Data Day suggests one or more topics on which commemoration events are invited to focus. This year, we are invited to remember the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and consider how open data can help achieve these goals. Moreover, already now, open data helps the United Nations to assess which of the goals have been achieved and what still needs to be worked on.
The VU Library congratulates everyone on the Open Data Day. May everyone discover the benefits brought by this digital asset!
As on every Open Data Day, we remind you that Lithuanian public sector open data can be found on the Lithuanian Open Data Portal, the European Union's open data is available through the portal data.europa.eu, and if you generate research data and want it to become open research data, you can publish it in the National Open Access Research Data Archive (MIDAS).
[1] Definition from the International Open Data Charter.
2024-03-04
Dr Gintė Medzvieckaitė