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Data Infrastructure for Common Challenges
  • Data Landscape Playbook
    • Data Landscape Playbook: status
    • What is this playbook for?
    • Who is this playbook for?
  • Play one: Explore the problem and how data can address it
    • Define how improving access to data can help address your problem
    • What type of data infrastructure does the initiative aim to create or maintain?
      • Build or manage data assets
      • Create or adopt data standards
      • Build or improve technologies
      • Create guidelines and policies
      • Build or support organisations and communities
    • Carry out initial research and engagement
    • Summary of Play One
  • Play two: Map the data ecosystem
    • Engage with key stakeholders
    • Create an ecosystem map
    • Identify gaps, barriers and opportunities
    • Summary of Play Two
  • Play three: Assess the policy, regulatory and ethical context
    • Understand the legal, regulatory and policy context of the initiative
    • Understand the ethical issues impacting your initiative
    • Summary of Play Three
  • Play four: Assess the existing data infrastructure
    • Make a data inventory
    • Assess open standards for data
    • Assess data skills and literacies
    • Summary of Play Four
  • Play five: Plan for impact when designing your data initiative
    • Plan an impactful initiative
    • Identify risks, assumptions and dependencies
    • Sketch your evaluation framework
    • Summary of Play Five
  • What comes next?
  • Acknowledgements
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Play four: Assess the existing data infrastructure

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As part of their efforts in collecting, using and sharing data to tackle specific problems, data access initiatives need to build or maintain . For example, by creating new data assets, developing or reusing open standards, creating guidance and policies to make better decisions to address sector-specific challenges, or building new technologies to support the management and use of the data.

In '', we went into depth about the type of data infrastructure your initiative might be building, improving and maintaining, including:

  • Data assets (such as datasets, identifiers and registers)

  • Standards and technologies used to curate and improve access to data assets

  • Guidance and policies that inform the use and management of data assets and the data infrastructure

  • Organisations that are responsible for stewarding data

  • Communities involved in contributing or maintaining data infrastructure, and those who are impacted by decisions that are made using it to tackle a specific problem

In '', we provided guidance on how to identify organisations stewarding data and communities involved in, and impacted by, the building of data infrastructure to tackle the problem. In '', we recommended steps to assess policies governing the use and management of data. In this play, we provide guidance on how to assess data assets, standards and skills to improve access to data. If you are interested in what technologies could help your initiative, you should check out our research looking into the .

Assessing existing data infrastructure and deciding whether your initiative needs to provide or strengthen tools that might tackle the problem includes thinking about how this data will be managed, collected and shared.

Activities in this play include:

By the end of this section you should be able to:

  • Assess skills and literacies of the initiative

  • Evaluate the available data assets and standards to tackle the problem

  • Design a plan to strengthen or build data infrastructure

strong data infrastructure
Play one: Explore the problem and how data can address it
Play two: Map the data ecosystem
Play three: Assess the policy, regulatory and ethical context
common technical infrastructure of shared and open data
Making a data inventory
Adopting or building open standards
Assessing skills needed to strengthen or build data infrastructure