scholarly journals Transitioning “Open Data” from a NOUN to a VERB

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aadinarayana varma D ◽  
Sheevendra Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Open Data ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Cultural Transition ◽  
Data Movement ◽  
Scientific Fraud ◽  
Unethical Practices ◽  
Citation Metrics ◽  
Open Data Movement ◽  
The Impact

Research assessment is the process or a metric which aims to assess the impact of the research study. The assessment may include the process that aims in evaluating the quality or intellect of a researcher given the notion that qualified scientists are more productive and may drive quality research in the process of Scholarly Communications. Over time, we have become used to equating the quality of the research with the quality or performance of the researcher. The emphasis over publications may encourage unethical practices, Which may be extrapolated to the evolution of problems like, Irreproducibility, Scientific fraud. Over the past century, a myriad of activities has been undertaken or are still being taken to improve the ways by which research can be assessed. Beginning with the first evolution of the Impact Factor and more recently other, Citation metrics, Altmetrics, etc. have resulted from this work. In this article, we discuss around the myriad of strategies that may play a significant role in the cultural transition of Science and Scientists that is still ongoing. And also highlight the reasons why we should not only look at research assessment but should also be keen on researcher evaluations and differentiate them from one another. Reflecting this, the title of the article signals how the strategies that researchers may need to consider might impact the way they interact with the Open Data movement.

scholarly journals Transitioning “Open Data” from a NOUN to a VERB

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aadinarayana varma D ◽  
Sheevendra Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Open Data ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Cultural Transition ◽  
Data Movement ◽  
Scientific Fraud ◽  
Unethical Practices ◽  
Citation Metrics ◽  
Open Data Movement ◽  
The Impact

Research assessment is the process or a metric which aims to assess the impact of the research study. The assessment may include the process that aims in evaluating the quality or intellect of a researcher given the notion that qualified scientists are more productive and may drive quality research in the process of Scholarly Communications. Over time, we have become used to equating the quality of the research with the quality or performance of the researcher. The emphasis over publications may encourage unethical practices, Which may be extrapolated to the evolution of problems like, Irreproducibility, Scientific fraud. Over the past century, a myriad of activities has been undertaken or are still being taken to improve the ways by which research can be assessed. Beginning with the first evolution of the Impact Factor and more recently other, Citation metrics, Altmetrics, etc. have resulted from this work. In this article, we discuss around the myriad of strategies that may play a significant role in the cultural transition of Science and Scientists that is still ongoing. And also highlight the reasons why we should not only look at research assessment but should also be keen on researcher evaluations and differentiate them from one another. Reflecting this, the title of the article signals how the strategies that researchers may need to consider might impact the way they interact with the Open Data movement.

scholarly journals The Challenges of Open Data Movement for Education: What is the Say of Young Employees and Students in Croatia?

2021 ◽  
pp. 374-383
Author(s):  
Branka Mraović
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Data Movement ◽  
Data Policy ◽  
Data Portal ◽  
Open Data Movement ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Shed Light

This paper aims to shed light on how students and young employees in Croatia assess their education for open data and what is their opinion on the compliance of the central Open Data Portal with the needs of young people as well as how they evaluate open data policy related to the young people in Croatia. This research highlights the lack of technical knowledge as a serious obstacle to the productive use of open data. As many as 56% of respondents from companies that have undergone digital transformation believe that they do not have enough knowledge to participate in open data projects, and the same scepticism is expressed by 59.6% of non-technical respondents and 45.7% of students. The data presented in this paper is part of a broader empirical research on the impact of digitalization on the transformation of the Croatian economy, carried out by the author in late 2018 on a sample of 51 young employees from 10 companies in the city of Zagreb and 70 students from 16 technical and non-technical Faculties of Zagreb University.

scholarly journals The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Davies ◽  
Stephen B. Walker ◽  
Mor Rubinstein ◽  
Fernando Luis Perini
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Open Data ◽  
The State ◽  
Data Movement ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
Open Data Movement ◽  
New Phase ◽  
Real World Problems

Its been ten years since open data first broke onto the global stage. Over the past decade, thousands of programmes and projects around the world have worked to open data and use it to address a myriad of social and economic challenges. Meanwhile, issues related to data rights and privacy have moved to the centre of public and political discourse. As the open data movement enters a new phase in its evolution, shifting to target real-world problems and embed open data thinking into other existing or emerging communities of practice, big questions still remain. How will open data initiatives respond to new concerns about privacy, inclusion, and artificial intelligence? And what can we learn from the last decade in order to deliver impact where it is most needed? The State of Open Data brings together over 60 authors from around the world to address these questions and to take stock of the real progress made to date across sectors and around the world, uncovering the issues that will shape the future of open data in the years to come.

Armchair Auditors: Crowdsourcing Analysis of Government Expenditures

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel E. O'Leary
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Government Expenditures ◽  
Data Movement ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Open Data Movement

ABSTRACT Increasingly, there is interest in using information and communications technology (ICT) to help build a “better world.” As an example, the United Kingdom has initiated an “open data” movement to disclose financial information about federal and local governments and other organizations. This has led to the use of a wide range of technologies (Internet, Databases, Web 2.0, etc.) to facilitate disclosure. However, since there is a huge cost of generating and maintaining open data, there also is a concern: “will anyone do anything with the data?” In a speech in 2009, David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, used the term “armchair auditor” to describe crowdsourcing analysis of that data. In that speech, Cameron (2009) noted: “Just imagine the effect that an army of armchair auditors is going to have on those expense claims.” Accordingly, as more and more countries and organizations generate open data, those “armchair auditors” could play an increasingly important role: to help crowdsource monitoring of government expenditures. This paper investigates a number of potential benefits and a number of emerging concerns associated with armchair auditors.

Corpus Phonetics

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Y. Liberman
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Data Movement ◽  
Limited Access ◽  
Speech Patterns ◽  
Open Data Movement

Semiautomatic analysis of digital speech collections is transforming the science of phonetics. Convenient search and analysis of large published bodies of recordings, transcripts, metadata, and annotations—up to three or four orders of magnitude larger than a few decades ago—have created a trend towards “corpus phonetics,” whose benefits include greatly increased researcher productivity, better coverage of variation in speech patterns, and crucial support for reproducibility. The results of this work include insights into theoretical questions at all levels of linguistic analysis, along with applications in fields as diverse as psychology, medicine, and poetics, as well as within phonetics itself. Remaining challenges include still-limited access to the necessary skills and a lack of consistent standards. These changes coincide with the broader Open Data movement, but future solutions will also need to include more constrained forms of publication motivated by valid concerns for privacy, confidentiality, and intellectual property.

Open data movement in Greece

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charalampos Alexopoulos ◽  
Lefkothea Spiliotopoulou ◽  
Yannis Charalabidis
Keyword(s):  
Open Data ◽  
Data Movement ◽  
Open Data Movement

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TEXTS IN CONTEXT. TOWARDS A CONCEPTUAL DATA MODEL (THE THOT DATA MODEL - TDM)

2016 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-41
Author(s):  
STÉPHANE POLIS ◽  
VINCENT RAZANAJAO
Keyword(s):  
Data Model ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Linked Open Data ◽  
Data Movement ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Online Implementation ◽  
Conceptual Data ◽  
Open Data Movement

Abstract In this paper, we propose a conceptual data model which could be the basis for future implementations of databases and digital corpuses of Ancient Egyptian texts that fully integrate the material dimensions of writing. The types of metadata that can be used for documenting the elements and relationships of this model are discussed and the resources (URIs) available for its online implementation (in the perspective of the ‘linked open data’ movement) are examined.

scholarly journals Civil Society and the Open Data Movement

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Church
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Nongovernmental Organization ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Data Movement ◽  
Library Users ◽  
Open Data Movement

The GODORT International Documents Task Force held a pre-conference at the 2013 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago titled “International Statistics: Helping Library Users Understand the Global Community,”1 with which I was only marginally involved. But I was asked by the committee if it was worth presenting on Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) data, to which I replied it was not: most civil society organizations were not yet in the business of repurposing publicly available data or publishing their own.

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