The thickness of #Arctic sea ice dropped to a new all-time record low this year around the North Pole (data from PIOMAS). More in my latest 'climate viz of the month' blog: https://zacklabe.com/climate-viz-of-the-month/ #OpenScience #SciComm #DataViz #OpenData

The thickness of #Arctic sea ice dropped to a new all-time record low this year around the North Pole (data from PIOMAS). More in my latest 'climate viz of the month' blog: https://zacklabe.com/climate-viz-of-the-month/ #OpenScience #SciComm #DataViz #OpenData

Look out for our OpenUK Honours list 2026 going live at midnight on New Year's Eve, and celebrate UK leadership in open technology. #opensource #opensourcesoftware #openhardware #opendata #openuk

#Scientometrics & #Bibliometrics researchers!
#DidYouKnow the #OpenAIREGraph dataset is publicly accessible on #GoogleCloud #BigQuery with full tutorials & use-cases available?
Ready for you to explore, analyze, and discover insights!
✅ Query millions of publications, datasets, software, projects & their relationships
✅ Build custom analytics
✅ Track research impact & collaboration networks
 
🔗 Learn more https://graph.openaire.eu/docs/cloud-access/

#OpenScience #OpenData #BigQuery #ScholarlyComms #ResearchMetrics

First time I've come across Anna's Archive, and only because of this news about scraping and backing up Spotify metadata and music files.

It's an open source search engine for shadow libraries, aggregating records from Z-Library, Sci-Hub, LibGen, and others. 👀

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

#opensource #datapreservation #opendata

Manually uploaded a couple of years of processed FERC EQR data if anybody would like to play with it. Working on the automated builds now. There are 4 directories, one for each EQR table under this path:

s3://pudl.catalyst.coop/ferceqr/

Each directory contains one Parquet file per quarter of data.

#Electricity #Energy #OpenData #FERC #Markets #ClimateChange

#Scientometrics & #Bibliometrics researchers!
#DidYouKnow the #OpenAIREGraph dataset is publicly accessible on #GoogleCloud #BigQuery with full tutorials & use-cases available?
Ready for you to explore, analyze, and discover insights!
✅ Query millions of publications, datasets, software, projects & their relationships
✅ Build custom analytics
✅ Track research impact & collaboration networks
 
🔗 Learn more https://graph.openaire.eu/docs/cloud-access/

#OpenScience #OpenData #BigQuery #ScholarlyComms #ResearchMetrics

First time I've come across Anna's Archive, and only because of this news about scraping and backing up Spotify metadata and music files.

It's an open source search engine for shadow libraries, aggregating records from Z-Library, Sci-Hub, LibGen, and others. 👀

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

#opensource #datapreservation #opendata

⭐️ Opportunity alert: part-time Project Manager role at @okfn ⭐️

The successful candidate will support the development for an #opendata infrastructure portal being prepared for the challenges of AI.

Could this be you? Know anyone?

Please share! 👉🏾 https://okfn.org/en/jobs/project-manager/

Looking forward to the end of our year celebrations with many of our community, at the OpenUK Christmas party in London and Christmas lunch in Edinburgh.
#opensource #opensourcesoftware #openhardware #opendata #openuk

Update. Here's another piece arguing that the best solution to this problem is to curb #OpenAccess itself.
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004851

"The very measures designed to fight fraud (open access) simultaneously power new forms of problematic activities (GenAI-assisted fast churn science). Robust evidence is emerging that open access datasets, especially in health and medicine, are being exploited in this way by paper mills and other bad actors…We suggest that unrestricted open access will continue to compromise trust in research using exploited assets…[Our recommended] safeguards would not be incompatible with #OpenScience, but would protect open practices and maintain the ethical and scientific benefits; without such changes to reassert the balance between Open Science and research integrity, our expectation is that the credibility of research based on open access data sources will continue to decline."

#AI #Data #OpenData #Slop

Hey nerds, we're experimenting with publishing our complete (but raw!) XBRL-derived #FERC data using @duckdb so you can, for example:

ATTACH 's3://pudl.catalyst.coop/nightly/ferc1_xbrl.duckdb' AS ferc1_xbrl (READ_ONLY);
SELECT * FROM ferc1_xbrl.transmission_lines_added_during_year_424_duration;

#SQL #OpenData #Electricity #Energy

I've set up a WikiProject to collect info on #GLAM data services: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_GLAM_data_registry

It would be great to team up, think of a data model, create some showcase items and collect metadata on API and data dumps.

cc @tillgrallert @mia

#openglam #opendata

In #Wikimedia land, I created my first #Lua module in #WikimediaCommons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:NHCP_marker_depicts_inscription

This module does all the heavy lifting for enhancing file pages of photos of #HistoricalMarkers of the #Philippines 🇵🇭 with #Wikidata items. It provides a way to point to the Wikidata item about the marker and to show the actual text inscribed in the marker. This is all done by just adding the {{NHCP marker depicts inscription}} template. 🧵 1/3

#OpenData #LinkedOpenData

I've set up a WikiProject to collect info on #GLAM data services: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_GLAM_data_registry

It would be great to team up, think of a data model, create some showcase items and collect metadata on API and data dumps.

cc @tillgrallert @mia

#openglam #opendata

OpenUK will be closed from today until 12 January, but look out for our 2026 Honours List being released at midnight on 31 December. We will again celebrate 100 contributors to Open Technology from the UK.
#opensource #opensourcesoftware #openhardware #opendata #openuk

@gruener_skatbruder das ist leider echt das wo andere Dienste brillieren. Wir haben in OpenStreetMap leider sehr schlechte Stauinformationen. Früher hätte man sich zumindest in Ballungsräumen gedanken machen können quasi über die Webcams der Autobahnen ei llm legen zu können. Aber die Quelle ist ja seit circa drei Jahren abgeschaltet. #opendata in Deutschland kenne ich dazu nicht. Kennt jemand irgendwas? Sowas wie #opentrafficdata für #osm?

Our last PUDL data release of 2025 is out. It updates EIA-860M, includes more EIA-176 natural gas disposition data, and provides FERC's XBRL data in @duckdb format for the first time.

https://github.com/orgs/catalyst-cooperative/discussions/4840

#OpenData #Energy #Electricity #NaturalGas

Looking forward to the end of our year celebrations with many of our community, at the OpenUK Christmas party in London and Christmas lunch in Edinburgh.
#opensource #opensourcesoftware #openhardware #opendata #openuk