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#opendata

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Andreas Amsler (in English)

With the implementation of #OpenData at the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology @meteoschweiz, there are new roles to fill.

We call one #OGD or “Open Data” Steward.

Together with Joël Fisler, I have the honour of taking on this role prior to the launch of our new service.

The launch date and everything else will be officially communicated. Until then, there is still a lot to do - with anticipation 🙂.

Replied to Kompetenzzentrum Open Data
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tomkyle

@opendatabund Soso, CSV ist also ein modernes Dateiformat … 😁 Tatsächlich ist es das Format mit den größten technischen Schwächen und den größten technischen Hürden für Anwender, und man fragt sich, warum nicht stattdessen häufiger auch auf ODS aus der #OpenDocument-Familie gesetzt wird. Interessant wär in diesem Zusammenhang mal zu ermitteln, wieviele #OpenData-Anbieter ihre CSV- bzw. JSON-Formate sauber spezifizieren und dokumentieren.

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Prasanna | பிரசன்னா ⁂

I have two book recommendations for #FOSS & #Opendata enthusiasts especially to widen your perspective of it beyond technical aspects.

1. Think Like A Commoner by David Bollier
2. Knowledge as Commons by Prabir Purkayasta

As commoners we should think beyond the logic of Capitalism else we will / we have only become unpaid workers to all the capitalist enterprises big or small who appropriate the value from commons which we all collectively create.

Front cover of the book Think like a commoner
Front cover of the book Knowledge as Commons
#bookstodon
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Eric Kansa

Open Context has been getting overwhelmed by bots. Again. Huge range of IP addresses, many, many user-agent strings that look like human controlled browsers, but all accessing random pages of content.

If I'm blocking your IP address and you want #opendata in #archaeology I apologize.

If anyone knows mitigation strategies, please let me know. It's one more form of bullshit that makes the political and cultural calamities feel even more overwhelming.

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petersuber

Update. "The Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge. Can #librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from #DOGE.
newyorker.com/news/the-lede/th
(#paywalled)

"Lynda Kellam, a social scientist and data librarian,…who’s served in leadership positions at two Ivy League universities, described the vulnerable data as “irreplaceable.”…Kellam told me that she’d participated in a small data-preservation effort during Trump’s first term, but had never seen anything like the frenzy that ignited in late January, when the #CDC began removing information from its website. Kellam was encouraged, but worried about a lack of coördination. What if the backups languished on private hard drives? What if archivists duplicated one another’s work? She created a Google Doc to centralize information about preëxisting initiatives—an archive of archives, with detailed instructions on how to contribute to each…Kellam met with the heads of other data-librarian organizations, and together they founded the #DataRescueProject."

The New Yorker · The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s PurgeBy Julian Lucas
#Censorship#DefendResearch#OpenData
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petersuber

Update. "#APDU [Association of Public Data Users] Statement on #Education Research and #Data"
apdu.org/?p=5812775

"On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, over 1,000 staff from the Department of Education [#DOE] were laid off. This includes almost all staff from the Institute of Education Sciences (#IES), which housed the National Center for Education Statistics (#NCES)…NCES is mandated by law to report on the condition of education annually, collect and disseminate key education data, and support state and local education agencies…The [layoffs] make it unclear how NCES will meet its legal obligations under the Education Sciences Reform Act, Every Student Succeeds Act, the Information Quality Act, and other federal laws…Congress and policymakers must act to ensure NCES has the resources to meet its statutory obligations. Stakeholders—including researchers, educators, and state leaders—must demand transparency on how education data will be maintained."

#Censorship#DefendResearch#OpenData
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