Open Data
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It’s Go Time for the Presidential Innovation Fellows
Excitement is building as we prepare for Thursday’s launch of the Presidential Innovation Fellows program. This new initiative is bringing in top innovators from outside government to work with top innovators inside government to create real and substantial changes that will in a very short time frame benefit the American people, save taxpayers money, and help create new jobs. Read More »
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It’s Time for Open Citations
Today, Mozilla is announcing support for the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), an effort to make citation data from scholarly publications open and freely accessible. We’re proud to stand alongside the Wikimedia Foundation, the Public Library of Science and a network of other like-minded institutions, publishers and researchers who believe knowledge should be free from restrictions. We want to create a global, public web of citation data — one that empowers teaching, learning, innovation and progress. Read More »
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J&J Sets Drug Data Free In ‘YODA’ Collaboration With Yale
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) will give academics access to data on clinical trials, a move that may prompt more companies to do the same. Read More »
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Kaiser Permanente Invites Software Developers To Build Apps
Health care giant Kaiser Permanente took small steps today allowing developers to access code to public information residing on its website, through an application programming interface (API). Read More »
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Kitware Supports MICCAI 2010
Kitware was omnipresent at the 2010 Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) conference held in Beijing China, September 20-24. This blog highlights some of our involvement in that event: Read More »
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KPMG Healthcare Report, Open Data & Consumer Comparison Shopping
KPMG’s recently released report "Something to Teach, Something to Learn" revealed that while nearly all healthcare leaders accept that the way the industry works will change over the next five years, only a quarter of them are preparing to overhaul their business models. Read More »
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Lawmakers Vote to Create VA Burn Pit Registry
Over objections from the Veterans Affairs Department, a House panel voted Friday to create a registry of people exposed to toxic fumes and chemicals from open burn pits while deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Read More »
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LERU Launches Statements On Open Access And Open Data
The League of European Research Universities (LERU) has launched two statements on the importance of Open Scholarship: ‘Open Access to Research Publications’ and ‘Open Research Data’. Read More »
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Lessons from the Use of Open Source and Open Data in Nepal's Earthquake Relief
The power of an open source project like OpenStreetMap during a crisis like Nepal's earthquake is undeniable, and I had the opportunity to see it up close and personal. I worked with the Kathmandu Living Labs team, where I observed thousands of local and international volunteers collaborating to create data and tools. Responding agencies used the team's work to plan and execute their operations. The philosophy of Kathmandu Living Labs is that by collaboratively building upon existing work, we will reach much further and have a far greater impact than working on problems individually and from scratch...
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Let's all start examining & using available 'Open Data' sources
'Big Data' or 'Open Data' is garnering a lot of attention lately. This is a short followup to a previous blog entitled "Open Data & Healthcare" published last month.
The Office of Women's Health in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has provided access to the Women's Health Assessment Toolkit (WHAT) and associated 'open' database on their web site at http://www.healthstatus2020.com/owh/what/OWH_FIPS__search.asp
- COSI 'Open' Health
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Make Data Liquid! McCollister-Slipp tells Health Informaticists a AMIA
Galileo Analytics Co-Founder Anna McCollister-Slipp today called on medical informaticists to prioritize “data liquidity” and the free flow of health data and to do so with a sense of urgency that the issue deserves. Her remarks were made during a panel discussion on the opening day of this year’s American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) meeting in Washington, DC...
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Making Dollars And Sense Of The Open Data Economy
Is the push to free up government data resulting in economic activity and startup creation?
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MapBox Continues To Innovate, Improve With OpenStreetMap
MapBox has a straightforward business model: take a good, open source solution; mix in open data and make a better map. It uses OpenStreetMap as a foundation to build open source mapping services that companies like Foursquare and USA Today find very appealing. Read More »
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McKinsey Global Institute Report on Unlocking the Value of 'Open Data'
The McKinsey Global Institute has just release a new report entitled, "Open data: Unlocking innovation and performance with liquid information." According to the report, 'Open Data' has great potential to empower citizens, change how government works, and improve the delivery of public services. It may also generate significant economic value, according to a new McKinsey report. Their report suggests that 'Open Data' can help unlock $3 trillion to $5 trillion in economic value annually across seven sectors of the global economy. Read More »
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Mendeley's 'open platform' provides access to scientific articles, data, & apps
Mendeley, a scientific-data aggregation platform sometimes described as a cross between Twitter and Facebook for scientists, started life as a simple tool for researchers, but has transformed itself into an open platform, allowing developers to build apps using that rich scientific metadata. Read More »
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