We produce free tools and guides to help you to manage, publish and use data.
We’ve researched and developed these tools ourselves with input from the wider community. If you’d like to offer us feedback or help us further develop the tools, please get in touch
Toolkits for the public and private sectors
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Blog, Guides, Tools 30/03/2021
Introducing the ODI Trustworthy Data Stewardship Guidebook
- Charlotte Mitchell
- Dr Dave Tarrant
- Elea Himmelsbach
- Fionntán O'Donnell
- Dr Jared Robert Keller
- Olivier Thereaux
- Sonia Duarte
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Blog, Guides, Tools 30/03/2021
Introducing the ODI Sustainable Data Access Workbook
- Ben Snaith
- Charlotte Mitchell
- Diana Szasz
- Joe Massey
- Sonia Duarte
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Service
Data Toolkit for Business
- Data publishing and use
- Skills and literacy
- Dr Dave Tarrant
- Josh D'Addario
- Leigh Dodds
- Violeta Mezeklieva
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Service
Data and Public Services Toolkit
- Public service design
- Anna Scott
- Ben Snaith
- Caley Dewhurst
- James Maddison
- Miranda Marcus
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ODI project
Prototype to help identify and manage risk when sharing data
- Data publishing and use
- Deborah Yates
- Rachel Wilson
Planning tools
These tools help you to think about how you maintain, publish and use data, and the policies and processes you should build around it.
The Data Ethics Canvas is designed to help identify potential ethical issues associated with a data project or activity. It promotes understanding and debate around the foundation, intention and potential impact of any piece of work, and helps identify the steps needed to act ethically
The Data Ethics Canvas is designed to help identify potential ethical issues associated with a data project or activity. It promotes understanding and debate around the foundation, intention and potential impact of any piece of work, and helps identify the steps needed to act ethically
We’ve developed a new guide to help organisations identify and map data ecosystems. The tool isn’t just useful for creating a visual map of how data is shared across an ecosystem that exists around a product or service.
Open standards for data are reusable agreements that make it easier for people and organisations to publish, access, share and use better quality data. This guidebook helps people and organisations create, develop and adopt open standards for data. It supports a variety of users, including policy leads, domain experts and technologists
Our Open Data Pathway will help you to discover your organisation’s strengths and weaknesses, identify areas of improvement to optimise progression and receive practical recommendations to help achieve your goals
This toolkit is designed to help people designing and delivering public services to overcome barriers to using data effectively.
Technical tools
Our toolbox is a collection of free tools that help with data publishing. Many of them work together to create an integrated ecosystem for open data.
Prove the quality of your data publishing, and help build trust with your data reusers
Check that your CSV files are easy for reusers to consume, and conform to standards and schemas
Take your first steps in open data publishing – publish quickly and easily, for free
Publish your organisation’s metrics as open data, and build dashboards to display them
A desktop CSV editor for Windows, OSX and Linux that helps your make easily-reusable, valid CSV files
Work with us
To find out more, collaborate or to set us a challenge contact info@theodi.org.
You can also say hello on Twitter or explore our code on GitHub.