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This podcast series explores the movement towards ‘Openness’ at the University of Oxford and beyond. Informational videos address topics ranging from ‘What is Openness?’, to ‘Open Educational Resources’, to ‘Podcasting’, while individual interviews with researchers and academics at the University offer fascinating insights into projects and initiatives conducted in the spirit of ‘openness’. Finally, ‘Open Data: The Golden Age of Discovery’ is a short documentary on the growing relevance of Open Data and Big Data not only to the academic community, but to humanity as a whole. Find out more at openspires.it.ox.ac.uk.The Openness at Oxford project was initiated, filmed and edited by two student…
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A grounded case for shared, structured data as a tool for transparency, reuse, and better care.
Open data gets a clear, practical treatment here, with free sharing framed as part of a larger ecosystem where people reuse, test, and improve one another's work.
Ben Goldacre makes open data concrete through clinical-trial transparency, structured reuse, and a five-star standard.
Open data gets a clear, practical defense as Ben Goldacre ties it to better patient care, cost effectiveness, transparency, and wider access to knowledge.
A clear case for open data, where maps become arguments about knowledge, risk, and shared futures.
Open Data: The Golden Age of Discovery frames data as a public resource, and it is sharpest when that idea becomes visible. The 100-fold growth between 1987 and 2007 sets the scale of the shift, but the episode comes alive through mapping: WorldMapper reshapes countries around…
AI research, explained by the people doing it.
Talking shop with the people behind data products
Héctor and Beto dissect Mexican grammar, slang, and news in native-speed Spanish conversations.
Small habit changes meet hands-on AI experiments.
A call-in helpline where listener questions turn into reported science and history investigations.
An interview discussing the Uahiro Centre's mission to make practical ethics accessible through open access work.
Ben Goldacre connects open data on Openness at Oxford to AllTrials.net, prescribinganalytics.com, and the Open Knowledge Foundation.
Ben Goldacre explains why PrescribingAnalytics.com worked because the NHS shared English GP prescribing data in a sensible way.
This episode discusses the exponential growth of data and the importance of open data for scientific understanding.
This episode discusses the Uahiro Centre's mission to make practical ethics accessible through open access work and clear writing.
Simon Benjamin of Openness at Oxford argues that publicly funded university research should be openly available, except where safety concerns such as dangerous viruses justify restrictions.
Simon Benjamin of Oxford explains open science as a 21st-century redesign of publicly funded research, with limited exceptions for dangerous work such as viruses.
An Oxford academic shares his experience with podcasting lectures, leading to global reach and inspiring a student to attend Oxford.
This episode explains what Open Educational Resources are and how they are created and used at the University of Oxford.
An academic shares his experience with podcasting lectures, leading to global reach and inspiring a student to attend Oxford.