DATA OASIS is an open source, open access, agnostic system for radically democratizing access to open data and facilitating the sharing of api’s, resources and best practices in open data.
Many of world’s biggest last mile problems such as cancer, ocean conservation, autoimmune diseases and climate are complex puzzles that require multi-disciplinary solutions. They won’t be solved top down or by any one team, one nation or one field of study. Free flowing access to open data is critical to addressing these grand challenges and yet, even at the top universities there’s rarely integration or communication across departments…or even labs! Our focus is on connecting the “balkanized silos” of open data, which currently have no universal search or cross-referencing mechanism.
An index of open data archives and a global forum for sharing best practices across disciplines, Data Oasis can greatly reduce redundant and incomplete research the world can no longer afford. We call this challenge, “the tragedy of the open data commons” and our proposed solution is a superhighway for open data sets.