School open data. First 7 lessons and feedback

Open data as a phenomenon has existed for a long time, but there are a lot of questions about it and, in order to remove at least some of them, we organized an open data school which takes place in the form of lectures, seminars and master classes.

This is a free educational project in which we tell about open data everything that we know and that can be useful to others.

While our goal is to enter the webinar format, in the first step we began to hold events with recording them on video and with open publication online.
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Lectures are given by Russian and foreign teachers and practitioners, and all of them, as far as possible, are as close to practice as possible.

Now we have accumulated 7 such classes and it is very important for us to get feedback on what was told and what we would like to hear.

Here are those lectures that have already passed.

Introductory lectures

We conducted 2 introductory lectures which are unlikely to be interesting to those who already know what open data is and data journalism, but will be interesting to those who just want to know about these phenomena.

Occupation and master class number 1


Introductory lecture on data journalism

Thematic Lectures

We also conducted a series of lectures on the semantic web, ontologies, data integration, geodata, and open knowledge bases.

Associated Costs: Open Costs Turn into Associated Open Data

Integration and data visualization using Semantic Web technology

Evaluation of the quality of Internet data: directions, indicators, tools


"Introduction to geographic information systems", master class "Working with open geodata in examples"


Tools and ways to find information for processing and building journalistic history.


Open knowledge bases and semantic wikis


If you have comments, ideas, suggestions or constructive criticism, please share them and we will take this into account in the next classes in 2014.