A week of Open Data in Ottawa - May 2015

A big line-up of open data related events in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

UPDATE 2015-04-23: As I live in Ottawa, I have provided some info about restaurants, and how to get around in the downtown area from the conference centre.  ENDUPDATE

UPDATE 2015-05-26: The IODC has released a programme of events throughout the week (PDF).  ENDUPDATE

Please note: most of these events require separate registration.

May 24: #FlashHacks at Maker Space North - register on EventBrite - see @opencorporates @makerspacenorth

May 25: Canadian Open Data Summit

http://opendatasummit.ca/

see @opennorth and hashtag #CODS15 for more information.

social: 5pm-7pm Networking Social at Heart and Crown (67 Clarence St, Ottawa)

May 26: IODC Unconference

http://opendatacon.org/unconference/

social: 6pm-8pm register for HUB Hosts: IODC Unconference Networking Social

possible W2P meetup in evening

May 27: a number of different events

2015 Open Data Research Symposium http://www.opendataresearch.org/project/2015/symposium

Joined Up Data Workshop / Open Data Leaders Summit http://opendatacon.org/pre-conference-events/

Opening Parliaments https://www.eventbrite.com/e/iodc-pre-conference-event-open-parliaments-tickets-17006256170 2pm-5pm - for more info contact @DanSwislow and @jkeserue - also see @openparl

CKANCon 2015 http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ckancon-2015-tickets-16681567016 hashtag #CKANCon

Data Standards Day http://iodc-standards.webfoundation.org/

Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) Meeting - register - 3pm-5pm

Open Data for Humanitarian Emergencies - register - 10:30am-noon

May 27-28: Possible #HackingConflict #Diplohack - see http://new.secdev-foundation.org/hackingconflict
For more information, please contact: [email protected]
- parent organisation @diplohack http://www.diplohack.org/

May 28-29: International Open Data Conference

see website http://opendatacon.org/ and hashtag #IODC15 for more information.

May 28 social: 7:30pm Open Knowledge community / School of Data meet and greet at The Brig Pub, 23 York St.

May 29: GoGeomatics Ottawa May Social

Richard Burcher of Ottawa OpenStreetMap will speak.  7pm at James Street Pub.

http://www.meetup.com/Ottawa-GoGeomatics-Canada-Monthly-Networking-Social/events/222139575/

Note: this is a small meetup group.

May 30 - June 1: IATI Technical Advisory Group Meeting

http://www.aidtransparency.net/technicaladvisorygroup/tag-meetings/tag-meeting-may-2015

registration https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TAG2015Ottawa deadline April 13, 2015

follow @IATI_aid and hashtags #IATI and #TAG2015 for more information

The events continue, although with less direct connection to just open data

May 30-31: Canadian Association of Learned Journals

Open Access and Open Data are major topics - see schedule (PDF)

Hashtag #CALJACRS15

May 30 - June 5: Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

http://congress2015.ca/

follow @ideas_idees and rather tricky hashtag #CongreSSH

Note that Congress has many, many sub-conferences and events, including:

• Digital Humanities Summer Institute (a series of 2.5 hour workshops) May 30-31
• a hackfest on June 1

June 3: Open Data Ottawa - Open Data Book Club - Artifact dataset - 7pm - Smoque Shack - see @opendataottawa

(see bottom of post for June 5-7 Random Hacks of Kindness)

June 3-5: Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS)

http://congress2015.ca/program/events/conference-cais-68
(part of Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences)

hashtag #CAISACSI15

also see http://www.cais-acsi.ca/

June 3-5: Canadian Library Association Conference

http://www.claconference.ca/

follow @CLAOtt15 and hashtag #claott15

UPDATE 2015-06-04: The CLA conference website removed the per-day pages, and now has a single program page that doesn't provide per-session links http://www.claconference.ca/program ENDUPDATE

Some sessions that may be of interest include:

Session Title: Innovation in Canadian Libraries
Session Code: INNOV
Day: Wednesday June 3, 2015
12:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Session Title: Open Government – the Virtual Library, an opportunity to participate
Session Code: 417-15104
Day: Wednesday June 3, 2015
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Session Title: Transparency through the Federal Lens: Open Government Initiatives at Library and Archives Canada
Session Code: 417-15061
Day: Thursday June 4, 2015
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Session Title: Preservation and Access Through Trustworthy Digital Repositories
Session Code: 417-15192
Day: Thursday
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Session Title: Libraries and Open Data. How Open are We ?
Session Code: 417-15037
Day: Thursday June 4, 2015
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Session Title: Library and Archives Canada as a Trusted Digital Repository
Session Code: 417-15560
Day: Thursday June 4, 2015
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Session Title: Open Government Speed Dating
Session Code: 417-15031
Day: Friday June 5, 2015
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Session Title: Libraries Preparing for the Research Data Deluge ?
Session Code: 417-15038
Day: Friday June 5, 2015
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Session Title: It’s midnight, do you know where their data is? A taxonomy of how academic researchers understand the cloud, privacy and their data
Session Code: 417-15277
Day: Friday June 5, 2015
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

June 5-7: Random Hacks of Kindness Ottawa

More info at http://rhok.ca/ - register on EventBrite ($5)

UPDATE: Most open data events are in Lanyrd

• http://lanyrd.com/2015/cods15/
• http://lanyrd.com/2015/iodc15/

UPDATE 2015-04-13: I made a Lanyrd guide for all the open data events

http://lanyrd.com/guides/open-data-week-in-ottawa-may-2015/

 

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