About OpenCon

OpenCon convenes students and early career academic professionals from around the world and serve as a powerful catalyst for projects led by the next generation to advance OpenCon's three focus areas—Open Access, Open Education, and Open Research Data.

About the OpenCon Cape Town “Open Data” Satellite Event Day

Librarians, researchers and academics share their knowledge and experiences of enabling, working with and sharing data under the “Open” banner: What works? What doesn’t? What changes would we like to see at our institutions to better facilitate Open Research Data?

OpenCon 2016 Cape Town: Co-hosted by University of Cape Town (UCT), North West University (NWU) and University of Pretoria (UP)

Event summary:

● What is Open Con?

● Researcher presentations: Open Data

● Workshop session: Introduction to cleaning data using OpenRefine

● Research data management (RDM) in South Africa: Tools and resource development