Open Data in the Arts
Gonnet, Henry 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-3201-9211 and Woolley, Dawn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6958-5658
(2026)
Open Data in the Arts.
Open Research Bulletin, 1 (2).
pp. 5-17.
ISSN 2979-8280
Abstract
At its inception, Open Access (OA) was created as a new way of freely sharing traditional research outputs such as peer-reviewed journal content to all ‘scientists, scholars, teachers, students, and other curious minds’ via the internet (Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002). Since then, OA has become a cornerstone of a wide variety of research practices across many discipline areas, enabling academics to instantly access current research, and allowing the public to access taxpayer-funded innovations (UKRN, 2020; UKRN 2024a). This success has led to an expansion of the concept of ‘openness’ in research, making space for further paradigms such as Open Data whereby ‘evidence that underpins the answer to the research question, and can be used to validate findings’ are made open under licenses which permit reuse (UKRI, 2016:3). Open Data is rapidly becoming an important part of research, as more journals require data access statements to be provided as part of published papers due to an increased number of funders requiring research data to be made ‘as open as possible, as closed as necessary’ (H2020 Programme, 2016).
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