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Managing the life cycle of a portfolio of open data resources at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

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Ethics in Research

Science is in revolution. The formidable scientific and technological developments of the last century have dramatically transformed the way in which we conduct scientific research. The knowledge and applications that science produces has profound conseque ...

2019

Unleashing the power of semantic text analysis: a complex systems approach

Andrea Martini

In the present information era, a huge amount of machine-readable data is available regarding scientific publications. Such unprecedented wealth of data offers the opportunity to investigate science itself as a complex interacting system by means of quanti ...

EPFL2018

Open science practices in geospatial education and research

Stéphane Joost

This presentation was part of Day 5 of the Open Science in Practice Summer School #osip2017. Additional information can be found on osip2017.epfl.ch. ...

2017

Brainhack: a collaborative workshop for the open neuroscience community

Sean Lewis Hill, Jonathan Raël Lurie, Ting Xu

Brainhack events offer a novel workshop format with participant-generated content that caters to the rapidly growing open neuroscience community. Including components from hackathons and unconferences, as well as parallel educational sessions, Brainhack fo ...

2016

From Data Quality to Big Data Quality

Gianluigi Viscusi

This article investigates the evolution of data quality issues from traditional structured data managed in relational databases to Big Data. In particular, the paper examines the nature of the relationship between Data Quality and several research coordina ...

2015

Managing Quality of Crowdsourced Data

Thành Tâm Nguyên

The Web is the central medium for discovering knowledge via various sources such as blogs, social media, and wikis. It facilitates access to contents provided by a large number of users, regardless of their geographical locations or cultural backgrounds. S ...

2015

Crowdsourcing Microdata for Cost-Effective and Reliable Lexicography

Martin Benjamin

Lexicography has long faced the challenge of having too few specialists to document too many words in too many languages with too many linguistic features. Great dictionaries are invariably the product of many person-years of labor, whether the lifetime wo ...

2015

Emerging trends in peer review - a survey

John Richard Walker

Classical peer review has been subject to intense criticism for slowing down the publication process, bias against specific categories of paper and author, unreliability, inability to detect errors and fraud, unethical practices, and the lack of recognitio ...

Frontiers Media Sa2015

Multilingual Lexicography with a Focus on Less-Resourced Languages: Data Mining, Expert Input, Crowdsourcing, and Gamification

Martin Benjamin

This paper looks at the challenges that the Kamusi Project faces for acquiring open lexical data for less-resourced languages (LRLs), of a range, depth, and quality that can be useful within Human Language Technology (HLT). These challenges include accessi ...

2014

Compliance with open government data policies: An empirical assessment of Italian local public administrations

Gianluigi Viscusi

Open government is emerging as a core issue for increasing, on the one hand, participation of citizens, and, on the other hand, accountability, transparency, and the capability of delivering digital services by Public Administrations, with a consequent int ...

2014