  The proliferation of sensors in buildings has given us access to more data
than before. To shepherd this rise in data, many open data lifecycles have been
proposed over the past decade. However, many of the proposed lifecycles do not
reflect the necessary complexity in the built environment. In this paper, we
present a new open data lifecycle model: Open Energy Data Lifecycle (OPENDAL).
OPENDAL builds on the key themes in more popular lifecycles and looks to extend
them by better accounting for the information flows between cycles and the
interactions between stakeholders around the data. These elements are included
in the lifecycle in a bid to increase the reuse of published datasets. In
addition, we apply the lifecycle model to the datasets from the GreEn-ER
building, a mixed-use education building in France. Different use cases of
these datasets are highlighted and discussed as a way to incentivise the use of
data by other individuals.
