This workshop will take place in Nottingham, on the 2nd Sep 2014 in parallel to OSGIS 2014 .

A one-day workshop aimed at uniting participants from various disciplines to enable an in-depth dialogue focused on Open Access , Open Data and Open Education, for building synergies and collaboration opportunities for Open Science and also with the Geo for All  initiative.

The aim of this workshop is also to bring people together to talk about ideas on Open Access , Open Data and Open Education for open science. Many datasets have a geographical component, allowing them to be aligned along this theme. Most of the time, just having a geographical alignment does not enable data exchange itself. All the issues that hinder the exchange of non-geographical data are just as relevant to data with a geographic component. In this workshop we extend a broad invitation to all fields to discuss their data exchange issues for data with a geographic component.

There will also be an "RDA for Newcomers session" organised at this workshop. The purpose of the Research Data Alliance https://rd-alliance.org is to accelerate international data-driven innovation and discovery by facilitating research data sharing and exchange, use and re-use, standards harmonization, and discoverability. This will be achieved through the development and adoption of infrastructure, policy, practice, standards, and other deliverables. This session is aimed to welcome and provide opportunity for those who are new to RDA to understand how RDA works and be part of the movement to accelerate international data-driven innovation and discovery by facilitating research data sharing and exchange, use and re-use, standards harmonisation, and discoverability.

Contributions are invited but are not limited to the following topic areas:

• Open access developments
• Policy developments in open data
• Global aspects of open education
• Open educational resources, open courseware and open online courses 
• Application use cases : government, health, energy, water, climate change and so on, for open science 
• Open architectures 
• Open content
• Open science
• Internationalisation and localisation
• Open source examples in widening education
• Implementation and deployment case studies in open data
• Issues on data exchange, data harmonisation

Please submit abstracts (max 1500 words) to Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk before 17:00 GMT on 30 May 2014.