What the output of a personal API can look like. Open Humans has been expanding thanks to lots of new data sources that have gone live in the last couple of months. Thanks to our Outreachy interns we already have added support for sharing your Google Location History and your Spotify Listening History.
On November 8, 2018 the Camp Fire in Butte County started and wasn’t contained until November 25, 2018. With at least 88 dead, 62,053 ha covered by the fire and over 18,000 destroyed structures it was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California so far. Over 52,000 people had to evacuate their homes. Soon, the smoke of the fires reached down to the Bay Area, leading to an increase in air pollution.
Bibliotheken als öffentliche Einrichtungen sehen sich aktuell verstärkt in einer besonders widersprüchlichen Lage: Es scheinen sich einerseits ein “Neutralitätsgebot” und eine Verpflichtung zur “Informationsfreiheit” gegenüberzustehen mit einem bewusst eingeforderten Bekenntnis zu einer aktiv pluralistisch-demokratischen Rolle, die sich auch offen gegen alle Tendenzen aufstellt, die diese Grundausrichtung des politischen Systems der
Eine Notiz von Ben Kaden (@bkaden) Eine kleine überraschende Ergänzung unserer im LIBREAS.Tumblr – viel zu wenig – gepflegten Serie Berliner Bibliotheken fand sich unlängst in einem Ordner mit älteren Ansichtskarten und das ist naturgemäß zu schön, um nicht auch hier verzeichnet zu werden. Wie bei solchen Fundstücken üblich, sind die Wege, die sie über die Jahre – in diesem Fall immerhin schmale 111 davon – nahm, kaum rekonstruierbar.
Yesterday, the National Contact Point Open Access (Germany) sent a mail to several mailing lists in which it pointed to a list of highly cited Open Access journals. According to the mail, this list could be helpful in motivating scientists to publish in Open Access journals [translated by the author of this posting]: “From now on, an overview is available under the resources category with approx.
Mozfest is Mozilla ’s annual festival that brings together technologists, activists, scientists, artists and many more for a weekend in London’s Ravensbourne College. Unlike schedules of many other events, time for passive consumption of talks can barely be found. Instead, workshops make up the bulk of the schedule. And even the science fair & demo parts consist largely of lively discussions between participants.
Consider this yet another commitment to trying to write here a little more regularly. Lots of thinking has been going on but not much writing! At least not writing as I’m going… Three things colliding over the past few weeks have led me to want to try and get some ideas down.
On August 17, it was announced that the collaborative writing tool Authorea had been acquired by Atypon that is in turn a part of Wiley Publishing.
In a study published two days ago, Miriam Redi, Dario Taraborelli and Jake Orlowitz examined the proportion of scientific references in Wikipedia articles that were published in Open Access. For the survey, the authors checked data for works referenced in Wikipedia against data from unpaywall.org. According to Redi, Taraborell &
Publiziert als / zitieren als: Herb, U. (2018). Zwangsehen und Bastarde. Information – Wissenschaft & Praxis, 69(2-3), S. 81-88. DOI:10.1515/iwp-2018-0021 Zusammenfassung Taucht das Wort „Wissenschaft“ im Zusammenhang mit Big Data auf, denkt man zumeist an… Read more of Zwangsehen und Bastarde. Wohin steuert Big Data die Wissenschaft?