Welcome to Digital Odyssey
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Summary:
"Governments at the municipal, provincial, and federal level have started to embrace and publish open data for transparency and efficacy. Academics are increasingly facing mandates (and finding incentives) to preserve and share their research data, enabling verification of their results and new insights based on their data. Citizens and community groups want to use open data to inform business decisions and suggest policy directions; other groups want to digitize, preserve, and share their heritage materials to maintain a historical record. Cultural heritage institutions such as libraries and archives have the professional mandate and skills to preserve, organize, and facilitate access to that data."
Read about or register for Digital Odyssey 2015: Open Data, Open Heritage conference on June 12 in Toronto, a conference from the Ontario Library and Information Technology Association.