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Habemus Papam!
📑 A new study by @ramyachandra.bsky.social explores legal hurdles in using #opendata for #AI training. Supported by @cis-cnrs.bsky.social, inno3 & @okfn.bsky.social, her research builds on the insights from 41 legal cases.
👉🏾 The report: buff.ly/MbrM3ra
#SustainableDataCommons
📸 J. Scott CC 2.0
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
Why Use RDF? Many reasons, some more than others. Thoughts on data representation in ... The Ontologist.
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
The info you need to understand your organization's #metadata is already there. You just need to discover and document it. @olesenbagneux.bsky.social 's Meta Grid offers a surprisingly manageable way to accomplish this seemingly daunting task.
Good news! Our Knowledge Graph Construction Workshop deadline has been extended to March 20, 2025. Don't miss out! :-) #Workshop #DeadlineExtended
New blog entry: Converting RDFS schemas to SHACL constraints — with SPARQL, of course. www.bobdc.com/blog/rdfs2sh...
A floating ancient city above an ocean
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT! Join us on Feb 28 from 12pm-1pm EST for a "lunch 'n learn" webinar:
"Digital Twinning Public Infrastructure: Using Linked Open Data, Federated Repositories and Machine Learning to Build Your First Digital Twin"
Registration and more info here: tinyurl.com/2h699kp6
Web page of the International Semantic Web Research summer school with a picture of picturesque Bertinoro in the heart of beautiful Emilia Romagna.
Applications are now open for the 2025 International Semantic Web Research Summer School - #ISWS2025
in Bertinoro, Italy, from June 8-14, 2025
Topic: Knowledge Graphs for Reliable AI
Application Deadline: 15.3.2025
Webpage: 2025.semanticwebschool.org
#semanticweb #knowledgegraphs #AI #generativeAI
There are many places where knowledge graphs are the perfect tool for an organization, and even when not, they can often provide valuable supplemental capabilities. A look at KGs in the latest … The Ontologist.
🦠 "Understanding ecological systems using knowledge graphs: An application to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza" explores how #knowledgegraphs can be used to integrate diverse #ecological data for HPAI research: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf016
[HTML] Mediating social and informational #serendipity
Blauwe achtergrond met in witte letters de hashtag #MakeSocialsSocialAgain
Waag Futurelab roept met de campagne #MakeSocialsSocialAgain alle culturele en maatschappelijke organisaties en gebruikers op om actief in te zetten op alternatieve sociale mediaplatformen die publieke waarden waarborgen.
Meer informatie vind je op www.makesocialssocialagain.nl
Teken nog voor morgen de petitie ‘Stop niet met VPRO’s Tegenlicht’. Een van de weinige crossmediale journalistieke programma’s met diepgravende geopolitieke analyses én serieus toekomstperspectief. petities.nl/petitions/st...
🌎 It’s time to reclaim social media.
Billionaires & venture capital shouldn’t control our digital lives.
#FreeOurFeeds is raising $4M to build a public-interest alternative.
Chip in today to make it happen freeourfeeds.com
De Nederlandse overheid moet per direct van sociale media platformen van Big Tech-bedrijven af. Dit roepen we samen met @waag.bsky.social, SETUP, PublicSpaces en De Goede Zaak op.
www.bitsoffreedom.nl/campagnes/op...
'The Legendary Soul Man' Sam Moore RIP
youtu.be/cAA_LUCb0QE?...
This track is from the album 'Rhythm, Country and Blues', produced by Tony Bown and Don Was in 1994.
Watching a documentary of the restauration of the Notre Dame on France 2. What a ‘tour de force’ and what a treat for all the craftsmen (and women) that could work on this project during the past 5 years (and also very good for their resume)
#notredame #restauration #craftsmenship #heritage #france
Wikidata Wizardry 101 tutorial at ISWC 2024
🎉 Recap from Wikidata Wizardry 101 tutorial with @NicolasFerranti & @AxelPolleres! #ISWC 2024 #Wikidata
Covered:
📊 Data model, 10x querying
🔄 Hands-on APIs, dumps & self-hosting
✅ Constraints!
🛠️ Advanced repair strategies
🌍 Wikidata & Wikibase
Check out tutorial resources: ww101.ai.wu.ac.at
I’ve permanently moved away from X, since it has become more and more a toxic social media platform, where my timeline was flooded with very childish and unnecessary provoking and polarizing messsages by Elon Musk #permanentXit #revivingblueskyactivities
#RDF is one of those standards that brings both autonomy and cohesion. It does so through standardizing identification, structure and semantics.
www.linkandth.ink/p/liberating...
My open letter marking the Web’s 35th birthday addresses the erosion of the web’s core values and resulting power imbalances that are influencing transformative technologies, reshaping geopolitics and driving economic shifts. The time to act is now.
👉 medium.com/@timberners_...
🥁 Here's our Annual Report for 2023! 🥁 It was a year of transition for @okfn.bsky.social in which we launched important initiatives and continued advancing #openknowledge globally.
Spoiler: 🗺️ Don't miss the timeline! okfn.org/en/newsroom/...
Now ready for a hands-on 2024!
New blog entry: Appreciating the SPARQL property path slash character more—querying for labels and more. www.bobdc.com/blog/slashno...
😍"design services with a test and learn approach that adapts as user needs [...] rather than making one big bet on an IT tender that tries to predict requirements years in advance.Inside government, put experienced operators rather than generalist policymakers in charge" www.ft.com/content/6b1f...
Today, the EU Data Act entered into force. It aims at harnessing the data surge from the #InternetOfThings. It promises to democratise data access, spur innovation and ensure fair use across Europe's digital landscape.
Read more 👉 europa.eu/!tjHJPp
#EUOpenData #EUDataAct
RDF Surfaces is a new realization of an old idea by Pat Hayes, to make the logic in RDF portable. It uses Surfaces (positive, negative, neutral, and query) and Graffiti (blank nodes on surfaces) to represent portable first-order logic in RDF.
Excellent work by P. Hochstenbach et al.
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But dropping the range might lead to confusion (what is expected?). You might explicitly want to state that you expect (preferably) a URI or a literal as range for dcat:keyword.