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Open Data! Citizen's Data!!

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September 24, 2025
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Open Data! Citizen's Data!!

A talk given on Open Data

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Nithya Duraisamy

September 24, 2025

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Transcript

  1. Open Data! Citizen’s Data !! Nithya Duraisamy

  2. Nithya Duraisamy • Author of 13 free ebooks • Founder

    – Kaniyam Foundation • Trainer on FOSS

  3. What is data?

  4. Text

  5. Image

  6. Audio

  7. Video

  8. Copyright Creator has the rights to the content created.

  9. Copyright No one can use it, except the author approved

    authorities

  10. Public Domain Anyone can use, share, sell, convert to other

    forms.

  11. Public Domain A works comes to Public Domain, after 60

    years of death of the author

  12. Creative Commons License • Author can give explicit permissions to

    share, with/without commercial usage, with/without modifying options. • Should attribute the author.

  13. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Creative_Commons_Licenses.png

  14. Open Data = CC / PD • Creative Commons license

    • Public Domain https://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5538036200

  15. Why Open Data is important?

  16. sharing is caring https://www.flickr.com/photos/kalexanderson/5793627255

  17. Innovate Always create on top of shared things

  18. Few Open Data Projects Wikipedia / blogs - text wikimedia

    commons - photos/videos OpenStreetMap - maps ccmixter.org - Audio Youtube – upload with CC license Open Review – Acacemic paper reviews mangrove.reviews – review anything archive.org – upload anything

  19. Search CC licensed Images

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  21. Advance Google Image Search

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  25. Video

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  30. https://mangrove.reviews

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  32. PDF is not Open File Formats for text

  33. PlainText, HTML, epub, odt is open

  34. Open Data Policy by Govt

  35. TamilNadu releases all GOVT publications in Public Domain License

  36. Nationalized Books by TN Govt

  37. Tamilnadu Open data Portal https://tn.data.gov.in/

  38. Data.gov.in

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  41. Case Studies

  42. Swiggy / Ola with OpenStreetMap

  43. FreeTamilEbooks.com 850+ CC books in Tamil Millions of downloads

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  45. Street Lights of Bengaluru in OSM

  46. datameet.org Open Data Community

  47. paani.earth Sustainable Management of Rivers through Open Data

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  49. Data in AI world Models live shorter

  50. Data is immortal

  51. Data is OIL always

  52. What we have todo?

  53. Create Awareness

  54. Give your data in open licenses

  55. Ask Govt to release more open data

  56. Use Open Data Always

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