OneC Data Curation Challenge Judging & Award Announcement

One Community’s 2016 Data Curation

Challenge

Background


The 2016 Data Curation Challenge is an initiative intended to engage and energize the community around the development of open data resources.  The Challenge will award $10,000 to the team demonstrating an aptitude to collect and curate new and/or existing data sources that provide new insights into social problems. The Challenge itself is part of a larger effort to design and build a Big Open Data Hub for public use within NE Ohio. This Hub will consist of a combination of an Open Data processing cluster to store and manage open data resources, and a Big Data processing cluster to provide data analytic and visualization capabilities that can support individuals and organizations in the region to use data to drive decision making and solve social problems.

The Challenge serves as a call to action to individuals willing to form project teams and get to work on the creation of new, regional open data datasets. The goal is to encourage broader participation in these efforts and to inspire deeper thinking on better ways to curate data collections destined for open and public usage.



Project Presentations and Award

After three months it is finally time to review the efforts of our teams and announce a winner of the OneCommunity Data Curation Challenge.

Although a number of teams and individuals responded to the initial call, three (3) teams took up the challenge and have submitted their deliverables for review and consideration.

The Data Curation Challenge Project Presentations and Award will take place between 5:30PM to 8:00PM on March 16, 2016 in the 2nd floor boardroom of the Idea Center. Each team will present their Project and answer questions posed by the Judges. Presentations and QA sessions for each team will each last approximately 30 minutes with the winning team named and Awarded their prize at the end of the evening.

All interested parties are encouraged to join us for light refreshments and to listen to the presentations and be part of the start to collaborative conversations on the use of data for improving our region.

Requirements: Overview
All submissions to the Challenge must include a brief problem statement, a data dictionary, detailed notation on data sources, any relevant data sharing and usage agreement, a data set in machine-readable format, and a meta data schema.



Deliverables:
A project presentation is required and must include:

(1) List of team members
(2) Project diary/project plan
(3) Problem statement
(4) Statement on approach to data curation
(5) Documentation of data sources
(6) Copies of data usage agreements (if any)
(7) Data dictionary
(8) Data sets in CSV or comparable format



Project Calendar:
Dec. 2, 2015 Challenge Announcement
Dec. 2 – Jan. 8, 2016 Team Formation, topic selection, planning,
discovery
Jan. 8, 2016 Discovery Day (questions, discussion) at
noon at Ideacenter
Jan. 11 evening Discovery Day at 5pm at Ideacenter
Jan. 6 – Feb. 26 Create, design, curate data sets
Feb. 26, 2016 Project Submission Deadline
Mid-March Prize Award and Winner Presentation



Award Criteria:
An independent panel of judges will review submissions and recommend the best individual or group submission. The decision of the judges is final.