As the capacity of the scholarly community to generate vast amounts of data has significantly increased, so has the need to share it and access it in a more open way.

Open data promote many core values, including increasing transparency and reproducibility of research findings, providing opportunities for reuse and aggregation to generate new insights, and increasing inclusion and justice of participation in the scientific process.

We are now seeking nominations for the 2024 MIT Prize for Open Data. Nominations are due September 15 at 5pm. Learn more

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2023 MIT Prize for Open Data winners and honorable mention recipients were honored at the Open Data @ MIT event held Oct. 24 at Hayden Library.  Read more at MIT News