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Those Who Publish Research Behind Paywalls Are Victims Not Perpetrators
Labelling scientists who publish in traditional journals as 'immoral' only hinders the cause of open access publishing Read More »
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Todd Park calls for new panel to help liberate government data
Federal Chief Technology Officer Todd Park called on the White House’s team of science and technology advisers Friday to create a special subcommittee to advise his office on projects to disseminate government data to private sector developers and entrepreneurs.
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Todd Park: President Obama's Tech 'Entrepreneur-In-Residence'
Congress created the Office of Science and Technology Policy in 1976, but Barack Obama was the first president to appoint a White House chief technology officer. In 2012, Todd Park became the second person to hold the position. Read More »
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Toolkit Designed To Make Biomedical Data Exploration Easier
Researchers have developed an open-source platform for creating software applications that make complex data understandable and accessible to those without sophisticated informatics expertise. Read More »
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Top 7 Open Source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools
In this article, I review some of the top open source business intelligence (BI) and reporting tools. In economies where the role of big data and open data are ever-increasing, where do we turn in order to have our data analysed and presented in a precise and readable format? This list covers tools which help to solve this problem. Two years ago I wrote about the top three. In this article, I will expand that list with a few more tools that were suggested by our readers. Note that this list is not exhaustive, and it is a mix of both business intelligence and reporting tools...
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tranSMART Foundation Announces Full Agenda for 2016 Annual Conference
The tranSMART Foundation, a non-profit organization providing a global, open-source, open-data knowledge management platform for scientists to share pre-competitive translational research data, today announced the full agenda for its 2016 tranSMART Annual Meeting at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in La Jolla, Calif., October 25-27, 2016...
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tranSMART Foundation Announces Keynotes for 2016 Annual Conference
The tranSMART Foundation, a non-profit organization providing a global, open-source, open-data knowledge management platform for scientists to share pre-competitive translational research data, today announced its keynote speakers for its 2016 tranSMART Annual Meeting at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in La Jolla, Calif., October 25-27, 2016. The keynotes for this year's conference include industry experts in various areas of translational medicine, including...
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tranSMART Foundation Announces Version 16.2 - A Collaborative Effort of the tranSMART Community
The tranSMART Foundation, a non-profit organization providing a global, open-source, open-data knowledge management platform for scientists to share pre-competitive translational research data, today announced the newest release of its tranSMART platform, version 16.2. This version includes significant contributions from numerous members of the tranSMART community and provides users with more advanced functionality to enhance their translational research studies...
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Transportation Next on the Big Data Button List?
Could the transportation sector be the next to get its own big data button?
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Turning Government Data into Private Sector Products Is Complicated Business
The government launched its massive data set trove Data.gov in 2009 with a clear mission: to put information the government was gathering anyway into the hands of private sector and nonprofit Web and mobile app developers. Read More »
Two Sides to Open Development
Ever since Robert Zoelick’s speech on “democratizing development” there has been a lot of buzz around the idea of open development and lots of discussion about what it really means... Read More »
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U.K. Government to create and fund Open Data Institute
The [U.K.] government has fleshed out its plans to create an Open Data Institute (ODI), which will cost £10m over the next five years, and promote the use of public data to help drive economic growth. Read More »
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U.S. CTO seeks to scale Agile Thinking and Open Data across the Federal Government
In the 21st century, federal government must go mobile, putting government services and information at the fingertips of citizens, said United States Chief Technology Officer Todd Park in a recent wide-ranging interview. "That's the first digital government result, outcome, and objective that's desired." Read More »
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U.S. CTO Todd Park: 3 Ingredients For A Private-Sector Mentality In Government
There has been much discussion in government recently about the concept of bringing a private-sector mentality to government, an idea that conceivably could foster more innovation and flexibility than in the past. Read More »
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U.S. government using open data tools created in Ireland
The open data movement is in full swing and tools and standards created in Ireland are to prove pivotal to open data employed by the U.S. government. It emerged today that agencies in the US Government have adopted a set of web tools and standards developed in Ireland by researchers at NUI Galway’s Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI). Read More »
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