If data is freed into the open, but no one uses it, can we consider it open data? This is one of the questions we need to ask ourselves is we want to promote data use. And what better day to promote data use than Open Data Day (ODD)?
So what is Open Data Day?
Maria Bareli-Gaglia: Our story begins in 2006, during my fieldwork at the Greek island of Ikaria in the Aegean sea, when I picked up a hitchhiker, a woman named Frosini. As we began to talk, we realized that we were both anthropologists riding in the same car. This encounter was the start of a discussion on the commons, which still continues. It also marked the beginning of a collaborative endeavor to understand how commons are tied to land and local culture. What do the commons mean to people? What happens when people lose access to their commons?
Michael Latzer @ Techniksoziologie TU Dortmund
Alex Foti, General Theory of the Precariat—Great Recession, Revolution, Reaction, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2017. (Free download)
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Das Universitätsorchester der HHU feiert in diesem Jahr sein 30-jähriges Bestehen. Unter der Leitung der Akademischen Musikdirektorin Silke Löhr bringt es zu diesem Anlass an zwei Terminen ein musikalisches Feuerwerk zu Gehör: Im Programm "Hexensabbat" drehen sich die verschiedenen märchenhaften, tänzerischen und mystischen Kompositionen alle um das Thema Hexen.
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Nithin Coca: Loconomics is a platform cooperative that allows service professionals working in areas like dog walking, home care, child care, massage therapy, and tutoring to connect and offer their services on a platform that they own.
Article on the European JRC Open Day Experiment by Gioia Ciro; Tarchi Dario; Vespe Michele and Sermi Francesco: “The research pointed out the feasibility of crowd monitoring through WiFi data. A methodology has been developed and tested using real data. The data were collected during the JRC Open Day 2016 by 20 WiFi access points deployed on the Ispra site.
Paper by Rhys Jones and Mark Whitehead There has been a growing academic recognition of the increasing significance of psychologically – and behaviourally – informed modes of governance in recent years in a variety of different states.
A few things you might not know about Holo’s ICO strategy.
Introduction by Leye Wang, Vincent Gauthier, Guanling Chen and Luis Moreira-Matias of Special Issue of the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing: “With the prevalence of ubiquitous computing devices (smartphones, wearable devices, etc.) and social network services (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), humans are generating massive digital traces continuously in their daily life.
Merlin Stone and Eleni Aravopoulou in The Bottom Line: “This case study describes how one of the world’s largest public transport operations, Transport for London (TfL), transformed the real-time availability of information for its customers and staff through the open data approach, and what the results of this transformation were.
On January 17, the Minnesota Supreme Court issued its opinion in State v. Diamond. It affirmed the appellate court’s holding that compelling a defendant to provide a fingerprint to unlock a seized cellphone (for which police had a warrant) did not violate the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
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Ursprünglich entstanden ist der Medizinerchor Düsseldorf (auch: Studierendenchor der Medizinischen Fakultät Düsseldorf e.V.) im Jahr 2012 anlässlich eines kurzen Auftritts bei der traditionellen Gedenkfeier für Angehörige von Körperspendern in der Medizinischen Fakultät. Aus dem einmaligen Auftritt ist aufgrund der gemeinsamen Begeisterung für das Singen ein Chor mit festen Probezeiten und Auftritten geworden. Heute fasst er unter der musikalischen Leitung von Maurus Hagemeister und Otto Lin etwa 100 Mitglieder.
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The topic of this panel was cross-border issues in the online enforcement of intellectual property rights. The speakers brought a range of perspectives from the movie industry (Ben Sheffner), the public interest sector (Corynne McSherry), academia (Annemarie Bridy), and the tech industry (Alex Feerst).
Los nuevos seleccionados para matricularse en la U. de Chile podrán visitar y realizar trámites que son parte de este proceso, como la toma de la fotografía para la TNE, en las dependencias del edificio patrimonial de la institución, entre el 19 y el 21 de enero, en lo que será el primer periodo de matrículas. Esta actividad se suma a la modalidad on-line a través de la cual los estudiantes pueden realizar este proceso en cualquier punto del país.Emblemático y representativo de la U. de Chile: un símbolo de la institución de educación superior más antigua del país.