Search for the web of data is still in the portal era, but portals do not meet all user needs. Imagine a world where you could search for, find, understand, trust and use data as easily as you can for…
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
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We need to learn how to search the web of data
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Comment: What would a locked-down data future look like?
This is the second in a blog series discussing potential data futures and how they affect data infrastructure. The first in the series outlines why we are considering three potential data futures In this blog we consider a locked-down future,…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Posts from feeds Tagged with: closed data, data infrastructure, data literacy, data spectrum, locked-down, obstacles, ODI, open data, Peter Wells, Transparency, trust
Aim to be boring: lessons for data infrastructure
“Anything you think is infrastructure probably isn’t – infrastructure that is useful is invisible” Image: The M1 motorway, UK by kevinofsydney, CC-BY 2.0 Recently we met up with Geoff Bilder, Director of Strategic Initiatives at CrossRef. We discussed data infrastructure,…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Resilience Tagged with: CrossRef, data infrastructure, DataCite, Geoff Bilder, linkrot, ODI, open data, ORCID, Peter Wells
How will the future affect our data infrastructure?
At the ODI we’ve been thinking about our data infrastructure and how different future scenarios will affect it As billions more people come online, what will our data future look like? CC BY 2.0, uploaded by Japanexperterna.se. It can be…
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Comment: Addresses are part of Ireland’s national data infrastructure
ODI Associate Peter Wells shares his thoughts on why putting the right data infrastructure in place will help Ireland’s new postcode system, Eircode, meet Ireland’s needs in the future Addresses are a core and fundamental asset for any country. CC…
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