Harvard DROID: "Digital Repository of Open Interesting Data"

Building Harvard University's first open data portal.

Technology

• Dataverse (Harvard in-house app; uses DCAT standard)
• CKAN (lightweight catalog management; used by most open data groups)
• Socrata

Conversations

• Technology
• Data sets (below)
• Licensing (proprietary Harvard license)
• URL (data.harvard.edu?)

Teams

• Data set finders
• Documentation writers
• Tech researchers
• Coders

Interesting possible data sets

• Energy witness
• Q scores
• Course catalog
• Shuttle tracker
• Registrar FAS (demographics)
• Endowment
• Course planner
• Library cloud/Hollis (Presto)
• Harvard art museums
• LabStat
• Harvard 990 (nonprofit arms)
• Allston expansiont
• CS50 Courses API
• CS50 Food API
• CS50 Maps API
• Authentication
• Campus services (HUDS)
• DASH research repository

Resources

• Find all data sets on harvard.edu