Introducing Octopub: Publish data to the web quickly and easily

Introducing Octopub: Publish data to the web quickly and easily

Stuart Harrison - Trainer

31st October 2016 @pezholio

What is Octopub?

What is Octopub?● Publishing data can be hard● Publishing data correctly can be even harder● Allows you to publish data with a full history● Anyone can collaborate● Lets you provide complete metadata

What is metadata?● Data about data● In our case:

○ Dataset name○ Description○ Publisher name○ Publisher website○ License○ How often the data is updated○ Name and description of each file

Let’s Publish Some Data!

https://octopub.io

Licensing● Why license?

○ Gives reusers guarantees○ Spells out what a user can do○ Spells out what they can’t do

Creative Commons Attribution

You Can:

● Share● Adapt● Remix

You Must:

● Credit the author

Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike

You Can:

● Share● Adapt● Remix

You Must:

● Credit the author● Distribute your

contributions under the same license as the original.

Creative Commons Zero

No Restrictions - The publisher has

released their work into the public domain

Open Government License

You Can:

● Share● Adapt● Remix

You Must:

● Credit the author (usually a UK government agency)

Quiz time!

The answers...

Emma Gemma Claire Paul Steve

Back to the data

Cleaning the data

Cleaning the data

Cleaning the data

Cleaning the data

Cleaning the data

Cleaning the data

Adding a new version

Schemas● Describe the contents of the data● Allow you to validate data produced as a series

https://odileeds.github.io/JSONSchema/

Building a schema