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Start Your Open Data Journey
Here you can find useful papers and tools developed by the Citadel project to help you get started on your Open Data journey:
1. What is a 'Smart City'?
Citadel's short vision statement will introduce you to the concept of a smart city and how you can start your own journey by simply starting to open your public data.
2. How can I open data?
Our first project white paper guides you through all the principles to be considered when publishing open city data.
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Open Data Principles for Cities
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Creating an Open Data City Charter
3. I've read the above material, how can I practically get started?
Our second project white paper gives you a practical, step-by-step guide to opening your city's data today.
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Guide to Open and Use Data
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Raw Data File from Citadel Associate Programme
Extra help and tools from the wider open data innovation world
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Our friends at the Open Data Institute have a helpful certification tool that makes it easier for people to find use and share your data
- We also like this easy to use 'geo-coder' tool that lets you add location coordinates to address data to make it available in map form
- There is even a reverse geo-coder tool that lets you add addresses to latitude and longitude coordinates (in batches of 150)