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.

From left: Chris Bourg, Suyeol Yun, Raechel Walker, Matthew Groh, Djuna von Maydell, Maanas Sharma, Tom Pollard, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Nergis Mavalvala, and Rebecca Saxe. Photo by Bryce Vickmark.

Congratulations to the winners of the inaugural MIT Prize for Open Data!

Recipients were honored at the “Open Data @ MIT” event on October 28, 2022, in Hayden Library, featuring remarks from School of Science Dean Nergis Mavalvala and MIT Libraries Director Chris Bourg, award presentations, and short talks by the winners. Read more in MIT News.