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The new Open Data Project Gallery
As part of our larger Open Data site redesign, we decided to revamp how we present projects in our gallery.
As part of our larger website redesign, we decided theOpen Data Project Gallery deserved a refresh. We not only updated how projects are displayed, but the goals of the gallery itself and what types of items are featured.
New goals of the gallery
In the past, the gallery only featured community-created projects, which meant we couldn’t include incredibly useful tools created by city agencies. A gallery that shows all of the ways open data is being used can’t ignore that large body of work! So we decided to open the scope of what is shared, and we’ve added an author tag. If you would only like to see community-created projects you can filter by “public,” or select “agency” to see official city projects.
We also decided that one of the primary goals of the gallery is to help demonstrate how open data is being used, in part to inspire new uses of it. So we wanted the project pages themselves to be more narratively driven, particularly around how the projects were built. We’ve expanded the “How I built this” section of each project page, but also are including a list of tools used to build each project along with the list of datasets used. Hopefully this can help you get a better look at the process behind the final product.
Types of projects
Some of the best resources about how projects are made are the Open Data Week recordings. To help make them more discoverable, we will be including some of them in the gallery. These will be tagged with “event recording” in the “methods” category. Some of these will be dedicated pages to the recording itself, but if a project we are featuring also was presented at Open Data Week we’ll include the recording on the page too.
We are actively looking to collect more educational materials. We want to highlight how you are teaching with open data! If you have lesson plans or assignments that use open data, consider sharing it in the gallery. We know educators are an important part of our community and we want that work to be represented. Also, if you have made other resources like tutorials or deep explorations of a single dataset that is something we are looking for.
We have changed how we are assessing projects, and how often. So keep checking back, we hope to be adding more projects regularly. And if you have something you have been working on, consider submitting it!