Opening Doors with Open Data - Harvard Political Review
lkfitz's bookmarks 2017-03-03
Summary:
"A new student group at Harvard is spearheading the push towards open data. After observing the growing role of open data at the federal level, Harvard undergraduates Neel Mehta ‘18, Athena Kan ‘19, and Brian Sapozhnikov ‘19 founded the Harvard Open Data Project (HODP) in the spring of 2015. The group began with the construction of the Harvard Open Data Portal to serve as a singular destination for all data belonging to Harvard University. According to Mehta, HODP’s mission is twofold—it aims to generate awareness of and excitement for what can be done with Harvard’s existing datasets while advocating for a new policy that requires more university data to be opened up."