# Open Data

**Open Data**

Detroit Digital Justice Coalition. “Opening Data.” Edited by Diana J Nucera, 2015. <https://www.alliedmedia.org/files/ddjc_zine-final-rgb.pdf>.

Farias Lóscio, Bernadette, Caroline Burle, and Newton Calegari, eds. “Data on the Web Best Practices.” W3C, January 31, 2017. <https://www.w3.org/TR/dwbp/>.

Headd, Mark J. “Open Data Guide,” 2016. <http://opendata.guide/>.

Mozilla Science Lab. “Open Data Primers,” 2017. <https://mozillascience.github.io/open-data-primers/index.html>.

Obama, Barack. “Transparency and Open Government.” whitehouse.gov, January 21, 2009. <https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/transparency-and-open-government>.

Open Knowledge International. “The Open Data Handbook.”  <http://opendatahandbook.org/>.

Pew Research Center. “Americans’ Views on Open Government Data,” April 2015. <http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/04/21/open-government-data/>.

Sunlight Foundation. “Open Data Policy Hub.”  <https://opendatapolicyhub.sunlightfoundation.com/>.

“Why Open Data?” Open Data Policy Hub.  <https://opendatapolicyhub.sunlightfoundation.com/why-open-data/>.

Sunlight Foundation, Code for America, and Open Knowledge. “US City Open Data Census.”  <http://us-city.census.okfn.org/year/2016>.

“The Annotated 8 Principles of Open Government Data.” OpenGovData.org.  <https://opengovdata.org/>.

Wilkinson, Mark D., Michel Dumontier, IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Gabrielle Appleton, Myles Axton, Arie Baak, Niklas Blomberg, et al. “The FAIR Guiding Principles for Scientific Data Management and Stewardship.” Scientific Data 3 (March 15, 2016): 160018. <https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18>.

World Wide Web Foundation. “Open Data Barometer.” <https://opendatabarometer.org/?_year=2017&indicator=ODB>.


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