Datasets

Open Educational Resources

Metadata about educational resources produced or co-produced by The Open University

Scientific Production

Metadata about scientific production of The Open University

Social Media

Content hosted by social media web sites. Metadata are extracted from public APIs and aggregated into RDF.

Organizational

Data collected form internal repositories and first made public as linked data.

Data from Research Projects

Linked Data from research projects.

Metadata and Documentation

Data spaces dedicated to schema description and documentation.

Other datasets are available on https://data.open.ac.uk but are currently in a test/validation phase.

The SPARQL endpoint will query the union of all graphs by default.

Open Educational Resources

Metadata about educational resources produced or co-produced by The Open University

OU/BBC Coproductions

Includes co-productions with the BBC.

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/bbc

License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

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OpenLearn

This datasets is a linked data representation of the metadata related to units of teaching and learning material openly available from the OpenLearn website. It notably uses the Creative Commons Rights Expression vocabulary and the Nice Tag Ontology. Units might relate to modules/courses when the unit corresponds to specific course material.

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/openlearn2

License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

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Example query: Topics being used together with "Psychology" in OpenLearn Units (See query)

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OU podcasts

OU podcasts, part of which is being made available through iTunes U, is a collection of Audio and Video material related to education and research at the Open University. This dataset is defined using a variety of ontologies, including the W3C Media Ontology, as well as our own SKOS representation of the iTunes U topic categories.

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/podcast

License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

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Example query: List of topics of podcasts related to course MS221 (See query)

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Videofinder

Media productions from The Open University.

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/videofinder

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Scientific Production

Metadata about scientific production of The Open University

Open Research Online

The Open Research Online system contains information about publications originating from OU researchers. This information is represented using the Bibliographic Ontology (bibo)

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/oro

License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

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Example query: Names of the people who have authored a patent (See query)

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Social Media

Content hosted by social media web sites. Metadata are extracted from public APIs and aggregated into RDF.

OU channels, playlists and posts from http://audioboo.fm

Data about OU content published on AudioBoo.

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/audioboo

License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

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Example query: List of playlists in the science channel (See query)

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OU channels, playlists and videos from YouTube

Videos from the Open University on YouTube. This dataset contains videos extracted from all OU channels. Videos and Playlists are linked to courses and qualifications.

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/youtube

License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

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Example query: OU content related to a YouTube video using the YouTube video id (from the URL, eg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYry6PYsL8o, just take "SYry6PYsL8o"). (See query)

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Organizational

Data collected form internal repositories and first made public as linked data.

OU People Profiles

The Open University People Profiles dataset contains information that Open University staff have made publicly available on their web profile according to the privacy guidelines described at http://www.open.ac.uk/people/more-privacy. As such the information about a person available via data.open.ac.uk will depend upon the aspects of their profile that a user has chosen to make public.

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/people/profiles

License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

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Example query: List of units with number of persons described in the dataset (See query)

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Course Descriptions

The course description dataset includes the courses from the Study at the OU website. Courses are described using the courseware ontology and the AIISO ontology, as well as several extensions with locally defined properties.

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/course

License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

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KMi Planet Stories

KMi Planet is the online news system from the Knowledge Media Institute. The sories are represented as posts in the SIOC ontology.

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/kmiplanet

License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

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Example query: Date and title of stories written by Enrico Motta (See query)

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KMi People Profiles

This datasets includes profiles of members of staff of the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, as available on the people pages of KMi, represented using the FOAF Ontology

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/people/kmifoaf

License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

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Qualifications

The Qualifications dataset includes the courses from the Study at the OU website.

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/qualification

License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

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Example query: List of undergraduate qualifications currently on offer. (See query)

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Open University data XCRI-CAP 1.2

Courses and Qualifications of The Open University (following the XCRI-CAP 1.2 schema).
Source is the XCRI-CAP feed: http://www3.open.ac.uk/external-feeds/OU-XCRI-CAP-12.xml

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/xcri

License: Open Government Licence (OGL) Version 1.0

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The OU's Key Information Set from Unistats

This is the portion of the Unistats KIS data about the Open University.

The Unistats Dataset is reproduced with the permission of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and their licensors. The Unistats Dataset may be accessed in its original form here: http://www.hesa.ac.uk/unistatsdata. All copyright and other intellectual property rights in the Unistats Dataset are owned by HEFCE, HESA and their licensors.

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/kis

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Example query: Qualifications and Jobs from Unistats (See query)

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Data from Research Projects

Linked Data from research projects.

The Listening Experience Database

The Listening Experience Database (LED) is a dataset that collects data about people's experiences of listening to music of all kinds throughout history and literature, in any historical period and any culture. Data collection involves curated expert submissions and crowd-sourcing as ways in which data are collected. See http://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/.

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/led

License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

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The Portrait Sitting Experiences Database

The portrait-sitting ontology and data are products of my (Dawn Kanter's) ongoing PhD research at The Open University. The project is titled Collecting and Connecting Portrait Sittings: A Re-evaluation of Portrait-Sitting Accounts in Enhancing Knowledge and Understanding of British Portraiture 1900-1960. See also the project website.

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/pse

License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

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The UK Reading Experience Database

The UK Reading Experience Database (RED) is an open-access dataset containing records that document the history of reading in Britain from 1450 to 1945. Evidence of reading presented in UK RED is drawn from published and unpublished sources as diverse as diaries, commonplace books, memoirs, sociological surveys, and criminal court and prison records. See http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK.

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/red

License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

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Arts and Humanities Research Council project metadata

This dataset collects formal descriptions of all the research projects in the Humanities that have received funding by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The data have been extracted from the RCUK Gateway to Research API and refactored to RDF. Currently, the dataset contains metadata for projects up to 2016.

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/ahrc

License: Open Government Licence (OGL) Version 2.0

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Historical Musical Meetups

This project focuses on supporting music historians and teachers by providing a Web tool that enables the exploration and visualisation of encounters between people in the musical world in Europe from c.1800 to c.1945, relying on information extracted from public domain books such as biographies, memoirs and travel writing, and open-access databases.

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/meetups

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The Reading Experience Database: DBpedia alignments

This dataset contains owl:sameAs alignments between people appearing in the UK Reading Experience Database graph http://data.open.ac.uk/context/red and their corresponding DBpedia entities.

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/redperssa

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Metadata and Documentation

Data spaces dedicated to schema description and documentation.

About

DBPedia subjects of Podcasts and Open Learn content. Source: DiscOU - http://discou.info

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/about

License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

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Meta graph

Schema description of data.open.ac.uk. VoID descriptions of Graphs. SPARQL Service description. Graphs, classes and properties. Basic triple statistics.

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/meta

License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

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Ontology

Description of Terms used in data.open.ac.uk

 

Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/ontology

License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

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