Building Harvard University's first open data portal.

We (Harvard's CTO, Harvard's Chief Digital Officer, the former Deputy CTO of the United States, the Berkman Center, and Harvard College students, among others) are creating an open platform where Harvard students and researchers can discover data about the University such as course catalogs, energy consumption, and library holdings.

We're going to find, store, and publish exciting data sets about Harvard and build a technical platform that'll help visitors find and use this data at a click. We're looking for data lovers and hackers from around the University -- especially undergraduates -- to make this a reality.

There has been a large movement toward open data in government (e.g. Data.gov) and in other universities (e.g. Yale's Open Data Access Project). The Harvard administration has been working on an open data portal of our own for nearly two years, and by finally bringing together all the necessary people (faculty leaders and undergraduate builders and researchers) we are finally making this a reality.

• Jim Waldo, CTO, Harvard University
• Perry Hewitt, Chief Digital Officer, Harvard University
• Nick Sinai, former United States Deputy CTO

To get involved, join the discussion at Issues or learn more at the Wiki.

Harvard students: interested in working with us? Sign up for the team!

Grab a copy of the repository with:

$ git clone https://github.com/Harvard-Open-Data-Project/droid.git

• Finding interesting, accessible data sets around harvard.edu
• Working out open licensing for the data
• Determining which technology to use to store and catalog the data
• Building a frontend and backend for the data portal

• Q scores
• Course catalog
• Shuttle tracker
• Dining hall menus
• Demographics from the FAS Registrar
• Endowment
• Library search
• Harvard art museum collections
• Building plans for Allston
• Authentication
• DASH research repository