Our Data as Culture commission with the University of Sheffield celebrated its first year in the wild at the AI4LAM Fantastic Futures conference at the British Library. Thu Dec 18, 2025 A year after ...

We hosted a two-day hackathon to test the first draft of our standard and explore how open data can connect more people with opportunities to help. At the beginning of December, we held a hackathon to ...

This guide describes the key features or processes of an identifier scheme – the tool, its governance (including how identifiers are assigned) and use This guide describes the key features or ...

When you join the ODI, you become part of our active network of organisations and individuals transforming their data strategies. You'll stay updated with the latest data policy, news, events, and ...

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Programme Lead for Data Institutions, Jack Hardinges, discusses the ODI’s ongoing work to test data trusts as an approach to stewarding data, and some of the recent developments in the field To ...

Geospatial data is about places. It might be about a specific building, a river or other natural feature, or a broader location like a city or country. This report summarises the desk research carried ...

In order to explore data institutions, it’s important to first understand the concept of data stewardship and how it fits into our theory of change. In this blog, we explain the concept of data ...

‘Assessing risk when sharing data: a guide’ has been created to help organisations identify, assess and manage risks related to sharing data that they hold From optimising supply chains and supporting ...

What does it mean to license data? What licence should you use? How can you indicate the licence that a dataset is available under? This guide answers these questions At its simplest, open data ...

As AI systems become increasingly used in everyday work and life, understanding key aspects of how these systems have been created and how far to trust the outcomes is becoming more and more essential ...

The ODI calls on companies and governments to build trust by engaging with their customers and citizens about how they use personal data The ODI calls on companies and governments to build trust by ...