Datasets
Open Educational Resources
Metadata about educational resources produced or co-produced by The Open University
Scientific Production
Metadata about scientific production of The Open University
Social Media
Content hosted by social media web sites. Metadata are extracted from public APIs and aggregated into RDF.
Organizational
Data collected form internal repositories and first made public as linked data.
Data from Research Projects
Linked Data from research projects.
Metadata and Documentation
Data spaces dedicated to schema description and documentation.
Other datasets are available on https://data.open.ac.uk but are currently in a test/validation phase.
The SPARQL endpoint will query the union of all graphs by default.
Open Educational Resources
Metadata about educational resources produced or co-produced by The Open University
Videofinder
Media productions from The Open University.
Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/videofinder
Example objects:
- BG024_2015e_vid012 - Bitcoin. Sweat. Tide. Meet the future of branded currency
- s315_2015j_vwr111 - Video 4.2 Ellucidating the structure of copper nitrite reductase
- ou_futurelearn_mc1020_vid028 - 1.8 Project Classification - a
- s201_2016j_vwr205 - How confident are we now?
- wxm151_2018a_vwr002 - Active learning
- u101_2018j_vsc001 - An overview of the first TMA process
- Under the Walnut Tree
- Carbohydrates
- The structure of lysozyme
- The action of lyzosyme
OU/BBC Coproductions
Includes co-productions with the BBC.
Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/bbc
License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Example objects:
OpenLearn
This datasets is a linked data representation of the metadata related to units of teaching and learning material openly available from the OpenLearn website. It notably uses the Creative Commons Rights Expression vocabulary and the Nice Tag Ontology. Units might relate to modules/courses when the unit corresponds to specific course material.
Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/openlearn2
License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Example query: Topics being used together with "Psychology" in OpenLearn Units (See query)
Example objects:
OU podcasts
OU podcasts, part of which is being made available through iTunes U, is a collection of Audio and Video material related to education and research at the Open University. This dataset is defined using a variety of ontologies, including the W3C Media Ontology, as well as our own SKOS representation of the iTunes U topic categories.
Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/podcast
License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Example query: List of topics of podcasts related to course MS221 (See query)
Example objects:
- Protecting the old dream
- Who is Handel?
- Speaking English in the U.K
- How ambient displays affect behaviour
- TESSA - Let me do the Cooking Mama
- Make your video look interesting
- Online training sessions: what are they?
- Conversation on creative climate with Joe Smith and Martin Reynolds - part 1
- Nikolaus Pevsner, The Georgian and the neo-Georgian
- Meet the Artist: Marcus Coates and Anthony Spira In Conversation
Scientific Production
Metadata about scientific production of The Open University
Open Research Online
The Open Research Online system contains information about publications originating from OU researchers. This information is represented using the Bibliographic Ontology (bibo)
Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/oro
License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Example query: Names of the people who have authored a patent (See query)
Example objects:
- http://data.open.ac.uk/person/03d5fecfafde0654fe3259b85bdc30c6
- http://data.open.ac.uk/person/042299abcac54fe25a1be6bf1dc3c949
- http://data.open.ac.uk/person/0afbd449a47fc08e378e5cf7a9f78e51
- http://data.open.ac.uk/person/0e5d4257051894026ea74b7ed55557e7
- http://data.open.ac.uk/person/0f46c5798aa974319f7f60e334361dbc
- http://data.open.ac.uk/person/126722a57fca65316bcd5aa2ed2c91ca
- http://data.open.ac.uk/person/12dc77bd1f6e552b55d7ac66f9df73ca
- http://data.open.ac.uk/person/166ff8803e7e4bc39bf57257c1241a04
- http://data.open.ac.uk/person/20fbc73bc6c0afc98372cf072a54acc4
- http://data.open.ac.uk/person/2482a533b100c51b082644502f2b86e0
Social Media
Content hosted by social media web sites. Metadata are extracted from public APIs and aggregated into RDF.
OU channels, playlists and posts from http://audioboo.fm
Data about OU content published on AudioBoo.
Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/audioboo
License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Example query: List of playlists in the science channel (See query)
Example objects:
- Open University - Arts&Humanities
- The Open University - Business&Management
- The Open University - Computing&ICT
- The Open University - Education
- The Open University - Environment, Development&International Studies
- The Open University - Languages
- The Open University - Law
- The Open University - Mathematics&Statistics
- The Open University - Health and Social Care
- The Open University - Science
OU channels, playlists and videos from YouTube
Videos from the Open University on YouTube. This dataset contains videos extracted from all OU channels. Videos and Playlists are linked to courses and qualifications.
Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/youtube
License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Example query: OU content related to a YouTube video using the YouTube video id (from the URL, eg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYry6PYsL8o, just take "SYry6PYsL8o"). (See query)
Example objects:
- Dr Elton Barker's showreel (12/16)
- http://data.open.ac.uk/youtube/70KHDbLmr_I/in/PL0C5B2423DAF9919A
- Galloping spiders - Spiders: how they move and spin (5/5)
- Theseus the virtual spider - Spiders: how they move and spin (3/5)
- The History of the Sickle-Shaped Cell - Sickle Cell Disease: A Lethal Advantage (1/5)
- Jane on working in partnership with the OU (4/9)
- http://data.open.ac.uk/youtube/__nWYfURe9U/in/PL155DB4614074FBE8
- http://data.open.ac.uk/youtube/__nWYfURe9U/in/PL5ADDE05BC50E348C
- http://data.open.ac.uk/youtube/__nWYfURe9U/in/PLE655AE98DEA9AD90
- http://data.open.ac.uk/youtube/__nWYfURe9U/thumb/default
Organizational
Data collected form internal repositories and first made public as linked data.
The OU's Key Information Set from Unistats
This is the portion of the Unistats KIS data about the Open University.
The Unistats Dataset is reproduced with the permission of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and their licensors. The Unistats Dataset may be accessed in its original form here: http://www.hesa.ac.uk/unistatsdata. All copyright and other intellectual property rights in the Unistats Dataset are owned by HEFCE, HESA and their licensors.
Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/kis
Example query: Qualifications and Jobs from Unistats (See query)
Example objects:
- http://data.open.ac.uk/qualification/q07
- http://data.open.ac.uk/qualification/q11
- http://data.open.ac.uk/qualification/q18
- http://data.open.ac.uk/qualification/q19
- http://data.open.ac.uk/qualification/q23
- http://data.open.ac.uk/qualification/q30
- http://data.open.ac.uk/qualification/q32
- http://data.open.ac.uk/qualification/q39
- http://data.open.ac.uk/qualification/q41
- http://data.open.ac.uk/qualification/q45
OU People Profiles
The Open University People Profiles dataset contains information that Open University staff have made publicly available on their web profile according to the privacy guidelines described at http://www.open.ac.uk/people/more-privacy. As such the information about a person available via data.open.ac.uk will depend upon the aspects of their profile that a user has chosen to make public.
Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/people/profiles
License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Example query: List of units with number of persons described in the dataset (See query)
Example objects:
Course Descriptions
The course description dataset includes the courses from the Study at the OU website. Courses are described using the courseware ontology and the AIISO ontology, as well as several extensions with locally defined properties.
KMi Planet Stories
KMi Planet is the online news system from the Knowledge Media Institute. The sories are represented as posts in the SIOC ontology.
Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/kmiplanet
License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Example query: Date and title of stories written by Enrico Motta (See query)
Example objects:
- Pre-1997 KMi News available HERE
- KMi representation on Key Scientific...
- KMi Attend Language Teaching...
- Moodling in Italian
- Good News from the Rhineland
- Bamboo Workshop Paris
- Webcef Project, Helsinki
- Global Sensemaking network launches
- What makes an exciting geography...
- KMi Promotes Green IT at London Event
KMi People Profiles
This datasets includes profiles of members of staff of the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, as available on the people pages of KMi, represented using the FOAF Ontology
Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/people/kmifoaf
License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Example objects:
Qualifications
The Qualifications dataset includes the courses from the Study at the OU website.
Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/qualification
License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Example query: List of undergraduate qualifications currently on offer. (See query)
Example objects:
- BSc (Honours) Psychology
- BA (Honours) Childhood and Youth Studies
- BA (Honours) Language Studies
- BA (Honours) Social Work (England)
- BA (Honours) English Language and Literature
- BA (Honours) Social Work (Scotland)
- BA (Honours) Politics, Philosophy and Economics
- BA (Honours) Combined Social Sciences
- BSc (Honours) Health Sciences
- http://data.open.ac.uk/organization/the_open_university
Open University data XCRI-CAP 1.2
Courses and Qualifications of The Open University (following the XCRI-CAP 1.2 schema).
Source is the XCRI-CAP feed: http://www3.open.ac.uk/external-feeds/OU-XCRI-CAP-12.xml
Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/xcri
License: Open Government Licence (OGL) Version 1.0
Example objects:
- http://data.open.ac.uk/course/a215
- http://data.open.ac.uk/course/a222
- http://data.open.ac.uk/course/b392
- http://data.open.ac.uk/course/dd308
- http://data.open.ac.uk/course/dd313
- http://data.open.ac.uk/course/dst206
- http://data.open.ac.uk/course/e102
- http://data.open.ac.uk/course/l161
- http://data.open.ac.uk/qualification/q07
- http://data.open.ac.uk/qualification/q11
Data from Research Projects
Linked Data from research projects.
Historical Musical Meetups
This project focuses on supporting music historians and teachers by providing a Web tool that enables the exploration and visualisation of encounters between people in the musical world in Europe from c.1800 to c.1945, relying on information extracted from public domain books such as biographies, memoirs and travel writing, and open-access databases.
The Reading Experience Database: DBpedia alignments
This dataset contains owl:sameAs alignments between people appearing in the UK Reading Experience Database graph http://data.open.ac.uk/context/red and their corresponding DBpedia entities.
Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/redperssa
Example objects:
- http://data.open.ac.uk/red/person/--lady
- http://data.open.ac.uk/red/person/--mrs
- http://data.open.ac.uk/red/person/-?anastatius
- http://data.open.ac.uk/red/person/-1800
- http://data.open.ac.uk/red/person/-a_boy_known_to_elizabeth_hamilton
- http://data.open.ac.uk/red/person/-a_boy_known_to_maria_edgeworth
- http://data.open.ac.uk/red/person/-a_french_artist
- http://data.open.ac.uk/red/person/-a_gentleman
- http://data.open.ac.uk/red/person/-a_member_of_the_church_of_england
- http://data.open.ac.uk/red/person/-a_revolutionary_russian_rag_merchant
The Listening Experience Database
The Listening Experience Database (LED) is a dataset that collects data about people's experiences of listening to music of all kinds throughout history and literature, in any historical period and any culture. Data collection involves curated expert submissions and crowd-sourcing as ways in which data are collected. See http://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/.
Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/led
License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Example objects:
- Dame Ethel Mary Smyth
- Ethel Smyth
- D'Arblay
- Fanny Burney, Madame d'Arblay
- Frances Burney
- Frances Burney D'Arblay
- Madame d'Arblay
- Franz Liszt
- George Grove
- Hall
- Harry Lauder
- Sir Harry Lauder
- Hector Berlioz
- Berlioz
- HectorBerlioz
- Hector Berlioz
- Fourth Earl of Orford
- Horace Walpole
- Isaac Watts
- Jane Austen
The Portrait Sitting Experiences Database
The portrait-sitting ontology and data are products of my (Dawn Kanter's) ongoing PhD research at The Open University. The project is titled Collecting and Connecting Portrait Sittings: A Re-evaluation of Portrait-Sitting Accounts in Enhancing Knowledge and Understanding of British Portraiture 1900-1960. See also the project website.
Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/pse
License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Example objects:
The UK Reading Experience Database
The UK Reading Experience Database (RED) is an open-access dataset containing records that document the history of reading in Britain from 1450 to 1945. Evidence of reading presented in UK RED is drawn from published and unpublished sources as diverse as diaries, commonplace books, memoirs, sociological surveys, and criminal court and prison records. See http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK.
Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/red
License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Example objects:
Arts and Humanities Research Council project metadata
This dataset collects formal descriptions of all the research projects in the Humanities that have received funding by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The data have been extracted from the RCUK Gateway to Research API and refactored to RDF. Currently, the dataset contains metadata for projects up to 2016.
Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/ahrc
License: Open Government Licence (OGL) Version 2.0
Example objects:
Metadata and Documentation
Data spaces dedicated to schema description and documentation.
About
DBPedia subjects of Podcasts and Open Learn content. Source: DiscOU - http://discou.info
Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/about
License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Example objects:
- http://data.open.ac.uk/openlearn/body-mind/childhood-youth/childhood-and-youth-studies/childhood/about-the-stroop-test
- http://data.open.ac.uk/openlearn/body-mind/childhood-youth/childhood-and-youth-studies/childhood/inappropriate-intervention
- http://data.open.ac.uk/openlearn/body-mind/childhood-youth/childhood-and-youth-studies/childhood/what-dyslexia
- http://data.open.ac.uk/openlearn/body-mind/health/children-and-young-people/young-people/jen-my-stressed-out-friend-isnt-eating
- http://data.open.ac.uk/openlearn/body-mind/health/health-sciences/aids-why-cure-so-difficult-find
- http://data.open.ac.uk/openlearn/body-mind/health/health-studies/banana-smoothie
- http://data.open.ac.uk/openlearn/body-mind/health/health-studies/green-tea-ice-cream
- http://data.open.ac.uk/openlearn/body-mind/health/health-studies/ice-cream
- http://data.open.ac.uk/openlearn/body-mind/health/sport-and-fitness/sport/diet-and-hydration
- http://data.open.ac.uk/openlearn/body-mind/kevin-colemans-story
Meta graph
Schema description of data.open.ac.uk. VoID descriptions of Graphs. SPARQL Service description. Graphs, classes and properties. Basic triple statistics.
Ontology
Description of Terms used in data.open.ac.uk
Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/ontology
License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Example objects:
- http://courseware.rkbexplorer.com/ontologies/courseware#
- http://courseware.rkbexplorer.com/ontologies/courseware#Course
- http://courseware.rkbexplorer.com/ontologies/courseware#has-assessment-method
- http://courseware.rkbexplorer.com/ontologies/courseware#has-courseware
- http://courseware.rkbexplorer.com/ontologies/courseware#has-title
- http://courseware.rkbexplorer.com/ontologies/courseware#is-taught-present
- http://courseware.rkbexplorer.com/ontologies/courseware#taught-at
- http://creativecommons.org/ns#
- http://creativecommons.org/ns#license
- http://data.open.ac.uk/audioboo/ontology/