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DROID: Digital Repository of Open Interesting Data

Some rough information about the project. For a more thorough introduction, check out the Readme.

Technology Options

• Dataverse (Open source data archiving system, developed by Harvard's IQSS)
• CKAN (Open source data management system, used by national and local governments, including USA's Data.gov)
• Socrata (Leading vendor of open data catalog software)

Conversations

• Technology
• Data sets (below)
• Licensing
• 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
• LibraryCloud
• 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