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@informapirata@mastodon.uno  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
#OpenData e appalti pubblici, perché i dati sono leva di trasparenza

Stimolare la diffusione e l’uso degli open data significa puntare a ricucire il legame di fiducia tra cittadini e istituzioni attraverso trasparenza e partecipazione. I dati aperti sugli appalti comunali italiani sono oggi ricchi, ma la soglia di accesso tecnico per il cittadino in termini di monitoraggio civico rimane elevata

https://www.agendadigitale.eu/procurement/open-data-e-appalti-pubblici-perche-i-dati-sono-leva-di-trasparenza/

@eticadigitale

Grazie a @piersoft2 per la segnalazione

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Wikidata
@wikidata@wikis.world  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

What does it take to maintain one of the world's largest repositories of free, structured knowledge?

Read this interview about the challenges Wikidata faces and how the team handles massive scale and constant updates, all while remaining open source:
https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/07/10/scaling-the-knowledge-graph-behind-wikipedia/#OpenData #KnowledgeGraphs#BigData#SemanticWeb

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Grassroots Economic Organizing
@GEO_Collective@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
TwinPines Catalyst Cooperative is a tech worker co-op that curates the free, open-source Public Utilities Data Liberation project (PUDL). Listen to @ZaneSelvans and three of his co-owners talk about the whys and wherefores or being a worker cooperative in the tech sector.
#Cooperatives#WorkerCoops#OpenData

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBjjAyeEEvU
Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭
@seav@en.osm.town  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

There’s a new #OpenStreetMap website feature related to #Wikidata!

When viewing objects in OSM that have a Wikidata tag, you can now click the Wikidata icon to turn the opaque QID values into human-readable info (plus a link to Wikipedia if any).

https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/6127

This integrates the functionality that @ZeLonewolf’s browser extension provided directly into the OSM website.

h/t: @mxn

#OpenData#LinkedOpenData @wikidata

Screenshot from the OpenStreetMap website showing the following tag table: addr:city = Manila addr:district = Intramuros addr:street = Padre Burgos Avenue artist:wikidata = Q94660322 Solomon Saprid Filipino sculptor artist_name = Solomon Saprid artwork_type = sculpture historic = memorial memorial = sculpture name = Gomburza tourism = artwork wikidata = Q105594630 Gomburza Monument monument and sculpture in honor of Gomburza wikimedia_commons = Category:Gomburza National Monument
Screenshot from the OpenStreetMap website showing the following tag table: addr:city = Manila addr:district = Intramuros addr:street = Padre Burgos Avenue artist:wikidata = Q94660322 Solomon Saprid Filipino sculptor artist_name = Solomon Saprid artwork_type = sculpture historic = memorial memorial = sculpture name = Gomburza tourism = artwork wikidata = Q105594630 Gomburza Monument monument and sculpture in honor of Gomburza wikimedia_commons = Category:Gomburza National Monument
Screenshot from the OpenStreetMap website showing the following tag table: addr:city = Manila addr:district = Intramuros addr:street = Padre Burgos Avenue artist:wikidata = Q94660322 Solomon Saprid Filipino sculptor artist_name = Solomon Saprid artwork_type = sculpture historic = memorial memorial = sculpture name = Gomburza tourism = artwork wikidata = Q105594630 Gomburza Monument monument and sculpture in honor of Gomburza wikimedia_commons = Category:Gomburza National Monument
Screenshot from the OpenStreetMap website showing the following tag table: addr:city = Las Pifias addr:housename = SM Southmall addr:street = Alabang-Zapote Road brand = Uniqlo brand:wikidata = Q26070 UNIQLO (Wikipedia) Japanese casual wear designer, manufacturer and retailer brand:wikipedia = en:Uniqlo level = 1 name = Uniqlo shop = clothes
Screenshot from the OpenStreetMap website showing the following tag table: addr:city = Las Pifias addr:housename = SM Southmall addr:street = Alabang-Zapote Road brand = Uniqlo brand:wikidata = Q26070 UNIQLO (Wikipedia) Japanese casual wear designer, manufacturer and retailer brand:wikipedia = en:Uniqlo level = 1 name = Uniqlo shop = clothes
Screenshot from the OpenStreetMap website showing the following tag table: addr:city = Las Pifias addr:housename = SM Southmall addr:street = Alabang-Zapote Road brand = Uniqlo brand:wikidata = Q26070 UNIQLO (Wikipedia) Japanese casual wear designer, manufacturer and retailer brand:wikipedia = en:Uniqlo level = 1 name = Uniqlo shop = clothes
petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"Why are data nerds racing to save US government statistics?"
https://archive.is/7gF5f

"After watching data sets be altered or disappear from U.S. government websites in unprecedented ways after President Donald Trump began his second term, an army of outside statisticians, demographers and computer scientists have joined forces to capture, preserve and share data sets, sometimes clandestinely. Their goal is to make sure they are available in the future, believing that democracy suffers when policymakers don’t have reliable data and that national statistics should be above partisan politics."

#Censorship#Data#DefendResearch#OpenData#Preservation#Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics
petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"Why are data nerds racing to save US government statistics?"
https://archive.is/7gF5f

"After watching data sets be altered or disappear from U.S. government websites in unprecedented ways after President Donald Trump began his second term, an army of outside statisticians, demographers and computer scientists have joined forces to capture, preserve and share data sets, sometimes clandestinely. Their goal is to make sure they are available in the future, believing that democracy suffers when policymakers don’t have reliable data and that national statistics should be above partisan politics."

#Censorship#Data#DefendResearch#OpenData#Preservation#Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics
Andrew Millar
@A_J_Millar@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

What a difference a research field makes! 📢 new paper on high rates of #OpenData sharing in #Biology at #EdinburghUni, led by Haya Deeb from our BioRDM team with 5 student researchers 👩‍🎓.

Previously on her #Metascience2025 poster. 🧵 1/3

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328065

@toothFAIRy @fresseng
petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#AI tools seem to be generating a large swath of low-quality, formulaic biomedical articles drawn from #OpenAccess biomedical databases. For example, since the rise of #LLMs about three years ago, the number of new biomedical articles is about 5k larger than previous moving average would have predicted. The researchers who noticed this trend argue for the "adoption of controlled data-access mechanisms" -- that is, pulling back from #OpenData.

* Primary source (a preprint)
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.07.25331008v1

* Summary (in Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02241-2

PS: The conclusion doesn't follow from the premises. This is like arguing that we should restrict clean air, clean air, and crowbars because criminals take advantage of them to commit crimes.

#Medicine #PaperMills#ScholComm
petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#AI tools seem to be generating a large swath of low-quality, formulaic biomedical articles drawn from #OpenAccess biomedical databases. For example, since the rise of #LLMs about three years ago, the number of new biomedical articles is about 5k larger than previous moving average would have predicted. The researchers who noticed this trend argue for the "adoption of controlled data-access mechanisms" -- that is, pulling back from #OpenData.

* Primary source (a preprint)
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.07.25331008v1

* Summary (in Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02241-2

PS: The conclusion doesn't follow from the premises. This is like arguing that we should restrict clean air, clean air, and crowbars because criminals take advantage of them to commit crimes.

#Medicine #PaperMills#ScholComm