Open data practices in African research institutions will be bolstered thanks to a new online course for librarians to coincide with International Open Access Week (21-27 October 2024). The Open Data ...

There are loads of file types swimming around our computers at any given time — most of which exist to supplement the programs we use or play (or allow them to function in the first place). The most ...

If you're having trouble opening a DAT file, I'll show you a simple and free way to do it. This method works on both Mac and PC. Just open your browser and go to winmaildat.com. It's a straightforward ...

What: A report from the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition initiative on the impact open data will have on agriculture, “How Can We Improve Agriculture, Food and Nutrition With Open Data?” ...

These days, the vast majority of state and local governments have implemented some kind of open data system to share government data resources with developers and the public at large. But what data ...

Making useful data public” is the thread that Joel Gurin sees running through his own otherwise varied career: serving as chief of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau at the Federal ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I decode analytics for business people. Today, with more 200,000 datasets, it’s a lot more popular. Still, real-life demands for ...

The “Open Data for Data Users” e-learning course is designed to provide a broad overview of Open Data from a user standpoint, and empower anyone to take full advantage of Open Data. Open Data is a ...

It is a movement building steady momentum: a call to make research data, software code and experimental methods publicly available and transparent. A spirit of openness is gaining traction in the ...