Are we ready for the digital tsunami?
How do we prepare for and manage what's known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
Internet
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Open data help scientists to unravel Earth systems
Understanding nature and its processes has greatly benefited from open data. Open remotely sensed data make hard-to-reach wilderness areas more accessible—at least from above. These advances provide new opportunities for ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 21, 2018
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Open digital mapping for assessing carbon storage in tropical peatlands
Soil researchers from Sydney, Australia, and Bogor, Indonesia demonstrate that tropical peatland can be mapped accurately using freely-available remote sensing data using open source software.
Environment
Nov 8, 2017
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Ten questions you should ask before sharing data about your customers
In 2016, a group of University of Melbourne researchers managed to decrypt some data that should have been anonymous.
Internet
Oct 9, 2017
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Five questions about open science answered
What is "open science"?
Other
May 30, 2017
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Genome Analysis Toolkit 4 (GATK4) released as open source resource to accelerate research
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard will release version 4 of the industry-leading Genome Analysis Toolkit under an open source software license. The software package, designated GATK4, contains new tools and rebuilt architecture. ...
Biotechnology
May 25, 2017
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73% of academics say access to research data helps them in their work; 34% do not publish their data
Combining results from bibliometric analyses, a global sample of researcher opinions and case-study interviews, a new report reveals that although the benefits of open research data are well known, in practice, confusion ...
Other
Apr 5, 2017
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When data's deep, dark places need to be illuminated
Much of the data of the World Wide Web hides like an iceberg below the surface. The so-called 'deep web' has been estimated to be 500 times bigger than the 'surface web' seen through search engines like Google. For scientists ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 6, 2017
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The value of the open science movement
Research creates its own problems. Articles may be withdrawn because of irregularities, results can be impossible to reproduce, methods are often non-standardised, and publications may not be accessible (See 'Fixing science', ...
Other
Aug 29, 2016
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CERN CMS releases 300 terabytes of research data from LHC
Today, the CMS Collaboration at CERN has released more than 300 terabytes (TB) of high-quality open data. These include over 100 TB, or 2.5 inverse femtobarns (fb−1), of data from proton collisions at 7 TeV, making up half ...
General Physics
Apr 25, 2016
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