Around the web in week 34, 2012

Fundstücke published this week:

Cyso sponsort Partijgedrag22 Aug 2012Op woensdag 12 september zijn er verkiezingen voor de Tweede Kamer. Om de kiezer te helpen bij het m…

Around the web in week 31, 2012

Fundstücke published this week:

New CKAN data portals31 Jul 2012, Mark Wainwright

The last few months have seen a lot of activity in Open Data round the world, and a corresponding …

BBC Internet Blog: Building the Olympic Data Services

BBC Internet Blog: Building the Olympic Data Services: The Olympic achievement behind the scenes: building a linked data architecture to deal with XML message streams, a complex domain ontology, near-real-time video on demand linked with additional inf…

DFID Open and Enhanced Access Policy Published at Long Last

DFID Open and Enhanced Access Policy Published at Long Last:
From November 1st, all recipients of DFID funded research must make their findings freely available.

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Under the new policy, researchers will be required to make peer-reviewed journal …

Marc Goodman: A vision of crimes in the future

Marc Goodman: A vision of crimes in the future (by TEDtalksDirector)
What can (also) be expected with drones, 3D printing, the internet of things and DNA sequencing…

Free access to British scientific research within two years (The Guardian)

Free access to British scientific research within two years (The Guardian): An important move for open access, but probably not the right one:

[…] research papers that describe work paid for by the British taxpayer will be free online for universiti…

EU Opens Up Drug Data Secrets

EU Opens Up Drug Data Secrets: via the European Public Sector Information Platform and Reuters:

Europe’s medicines regulator is opening its data vaults to systematic scrutiny in a move that will let independent researchers trawl through millions of …

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