Open data publishing: suggested process
At the ODI, we have identified key steps to publishing open data, as outlined below.
Open data publishing: suggested process
- Identify data
- Record data in the catalogue (title, abstract, location, owner etc)
- Risk assess the data for potential to share
- Consider/carry out mitigations if required
- Agree sign off on sharing (senior leader/business owner)
- Record risk assessment outcome and also store the risk assessment itself
- Ensure the actual data is stored in a place where it can be accessed externally
- Prepare metadata to provide a persistent URL to the data
- Inform communications team and customer services team when the data will be live
- Publish the data with supporting documentation
- Maintain, review and feedback – keep the data, metadata and links up to date
- Seek use cases and feedback
