Though researchers are increasingly sharing the data underlying their research, the openness of these data is often still unintentionally impaired by unnecessary application of a ‘non-commercial’ (NC) condition, such as the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC licence.

Bibliographical metadata management system.

Public library digital transformation

Governance  Coverage across the research enterprise – it is increasingly clear that research transcends disciplines, geography, institutions and stakeholders. The infrastructure that supports it needs …

Wikipedia is far from perfect. The same can be said of its sister project, Wikidata. And yet, excluding the World Wide Web itself, Wikipedia and Wikidata together represent the world’s largest structured humanities data source. This methods paper offers an introduction to the value of Wikidata for humanities research and makes the case for humanities researchers’ intervention in its development. It concludes with a short case study to illustrate how Wikidata can support humanities research projects. The case study project, Linked Familiarity, uses Wikidata data about the people quoted in the first ten editions of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations to look for patterns in the people Bartlett’s Familiar editorial team thought readers find quotable from 1855 and 1910. These patterns will, we hope, clarify a corner of the zeitgeist: Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations readers voted with their purchases—the book’s popularity suggests the quotes the volume’s editorial team compiled really did meet a public desire, or even need. The Linked Familiarity’s team is using Wikidata data to find out about the people worth quoting in this 55-year stretch, to examine the characteristics that unite them, and to uncover the outliers.

The space agency is not only required by law to give you access to many of its materials, but it also really wants you to use them. Here's why.

Talks about reenclosure and other threats to open.

A common motivation for increasing open access to research findings and data is the potential to create economic benefits—but evidence is patchy and diverse. This study systematically reviewed the evidence on what kinds of economic impacts (positive and negative) open science can have, how these comes about, and how benefits could be maximized. Use of open science outputs often leaves no obvious trace, so most evidence of impacts is based on interviews, surveys, inference based on existing costs, and modelling approaches. There is indicative evidence that open access to findings/data can lead to savings in access costs, labour costs and transaction costs. There are examples of open science enabling new products, services, companies, research and collaborations. Modelling studies suggest higher returns to R&D if open access permits greater accessibility and efficiency of use of findings. Barriers include lack of skills capacity in search, interpretation and text mining, and lack of clarity around where benefits accrue. There are also contextual considerations around who benefits most from open science (e.g., sectors, small vs. larger companies, types of dataset). Recommendations captured in the review include more research, monitoring and evaluation (including developing metrics), promoting benefits, capacity building and making outputs more audience-friendly.

Duke MTMC is a dataset of surveillance camera footage of students on Duke University campus

The Center for Data Innovation spoke with Chris Mentzel, program director for the Data-Driven Discovery Initiative at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation [...]

Google’s sibling company Sidewalk Labs offers planning agencies the ability to model an entire city’s patterns of movement.

A new report says the library should oversee data governance because it is a “long-standing public institution with broad respect in the technology co...

Kaggle is the world’s largest data science community with powerful tools and resources to help you achieve your data science goals.

In this article, Professor Solove develops a theory to reconcile the tension between transparency and privacy in the context of public records.  Federal and sta

Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities program is letting small cities share and collaborate on evidenced-based solutions to urban problems.

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants…