We produce free tools and guides to help you to manage, publish and use data.
We’ve researched and developed these tools ourselves with input from the wider community. If you’d like to offer us feedback or help us further develop the tools, please get in touch
Toolkits for the public and private sectors
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Current project
Covid-19: Building an open and trustworthy data ecosystem
- Covid-19
- Data infrastructure
- Charlotte Mitchell
- Jeni Tennison
- Olivier Thereaux
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Blog, Guides, Tools 30/03/2021
Introducing the ODI Data Landscape Playbook
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Elea Himmelsbach
- Flor Serale
- James Maddison
- Joe Massey
- Josh D'Addario
- Olivier Thereaux
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Blog, Guides, Tools 30/03/2021
Introducing the ODI Trustworthy Data Stewardship Guidebook
- Charlotte Mitchell
- Dr Dave Tarrant
- Elea Himmelsbach
- Fionntán O'Donnell
- Dr Jared Robert Keller
- Jonathan Wilson
- Olivier Thereaux
- Sonia Duarte
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Blog, Guides, Tools 30/03/2021
Introducing the ODI Sustainable Data Access Workbook
- Ben Snaith
- Charlotte Mitchell
- Diana Szasz
- Joe Massey
- Sonia Duarte
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Service
Data Toolkit for Business
- Data publishing and use
- Skills and literacy
- Dr Dave Tarrant
- Josh D'Addario
- Violeta Mezeklieva
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Service
Data and Public Services Toolkit
- Public service design
- Ben Snaith
- Caley Dewhurst
- James Maddison
Planning tools
These tools help you to think about how you maintain, publish and use data, and the policies and processes you should build around it.
The Data Ethics Canvas is designed to help identify potential ethical issues associated with a data project or activity. It promotes understanding and debate around the foundation, intention and potential impact of any piece of work, and helps identify the steps needed to act ethically
We’ve developed a new guide to help organisations identify and map data ecosystems. The tool isn’t just useful for creating a visual map of how data is shared across an ecosystem that exists around a product or service
Policymakers sometimes struggle to see how data can be used to create impact in the world. They know that open data is relevant to the digital economy and building better public services but fail to see the many other ways that data can be used. We have produced some re-usable solutions (design patterns) that help government policymakers to see how data could be used to create impact
Open standards for data are reusable agreements that make it easier for people and organisations to publish, access, share and use better quality data. This guidebook helps people and organisations create, develop and adopt open standards for data. It supports a variety of users, including policy leads, domain experts and technologists
Our Open Data Pathway will help you to discover your organisation’s strengths and weaknesses, identify areas of improvement to optimise progression and receive practical recommendations to help achieve your goals
This toolkit is designed to help people designing and delivering public services to overcome barriers to using data effectively.
Datopolis is a board game about building things – services, websites, devices, apps, research – using closed and open data. It was designed and developed by Ellen Broad and Jeni Tennison at the Open Data Institute
Technical tools
Our toolbox is a collection of free tools that help with data publishing. Many of them work together to create an integrated ecosystem for open data.
Prove the quality of your data publishing, and help build trust with your data reusers
Check that your CSV files are easy for reusers to consume, and conform to standards and schemas
Take your first steps in open data publishing; publish quickly and easily, for free
Publish your organisations’ metrics as open data, and build dashboards to display them
A desktop CSV editor for Windows, OSX and Linux that helps your make easily-reusable, valid CSV files
Work with us
To find out more, collaborate or to set us a challenge contact [email protected].
You can also say hello on Twitter or explore our code on GitHub.