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«Our project [#openstreetmap] is constantly under a threat from technical people, who see it as a database, or a fixed structure, or an API to work with – and not as a community of people with specific knowledge who make the map as a by-product of understanding the world.»

So we'll put by […]

Christian Gutknecht (member of the Opendata.ch board) and Michael Luggen (Federal Chancellery)

👉 New eCH expert group develops standard for political transactions

🔎 In an informative short video, the co-chairs of the eCH expert group, Christian Gutknecht (member of our board) and Michael Luggen (Federal Chancellery), explain how this came about, what […]

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Very nice preprint on the importance of #FAIR data resources in the life sciences, for AI and generally for science, by a great @SIB team led by @dessimoz. With @bgeedb inside ;)
https://zenodo.org/records/15724104

very excited ot have @jelabra here in Maastricht since Tuesday evening. Yesterday he was opponent in Ammar's PhD defense and he give presentation in the mini symposium in the afternoon, and right now we're looking into his new Rudof tool

#openscience #semweb

There should be a reality show where contestants have to complete challenges in as dignified a manner as possible, and are graded by a panel of wickedly sarcastic fashionistas and high-society snobs. I want to watch, I dunno, Miranda Priestly deliver vicious commentary on someone struggling to […]

yeah, Prague is a great city! it's been too long since I was there (first time somewhere in the nineties, after the fall of the iron curtain). I am seeing plenty of posts on other platforms, but I am hoping to see some good coverage of #MetSoc2025 here too

(mumbles to himself in his bubble)

the many ways AI is making humans less productive #1:

- I have to proof I am human when visiting website
- websites are generally slower because they need to check if my browser is an AI bot
- I spent time every week now, restarting services affected by AI scraping bots

And I am not even using […]

"Why would companies push generative AI into seemingly everything, even though customers don't like it and it doesn't really work?
They neither know nor care what the customer wants, how their businesses function, what their products do, and barely understand what their workers are doing […]

there is the UK Figshare and the EU Zenodo. What other internationally-oriented #openscience workhorses for sharing research output exist around the globe?

My partner and I are heading to NYC for a show in October, and I'd like to know if there's a comprehensive theatre calendar somewhere, where I can see everything on, off, off-off, or way the fuck off broadway on any given date.

Boosts for reach please?

Javi Millán Acosta's #ELIXIREurope BioHackathon Europe proposal "A shape-driven visual interface to integrate heterogeneous biomedical databases into knowledge graphs" has been approved https://biohackathon-europe.org/projects/

I'm looking for security consultant recommendations! I support a non-profit that’s building PII-storing open source software that integrates with government data storage systems, and they would like a third-party security assessment. This is *not* about compliance, this is straight-up wanting […]

A new #Jepsen report! We worked with TigerBeetle to find seven crashes, elevated latencies during single-node failures, and requests which were retried forever in version 0.16.11. We found only two safety issues: missing results for queries with multiple predicates, and incorrect timestamps in a […]

some phrases are just meaningless. Take for example:

"we can do it at a faction of the cost"

I think we all think we know what it means. Until you realize that 11/3 is also a fraction

Screenshot of Ammar's Snorql UI, here wrapped around the Wikidata SPARQL instance by the QLever team, federating with the IDSM SPARQL endpoint for substructure searching, and using CDK Depict to convert the SMILES into 2D depictions in the results tables

oolonek⁩ reminded me how cool IDSM is (see https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-021-00515-1) and works wonderfully in the rich chemistry SPARQL world (see https://doi.org/10.1186/1758-2946-3-15).

Here I mashed up @wikidata, IDSM, QLever, @cdk Depict, and Ammar […]

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A picture of a book case that opens into another library. Caption: Some dream of fame. Some dream of traveling to space. I dream of having a secret door in one library that leads to another hidden library.

Yes, I know I've posted this before, but I really want one 😊
Public libraries could make this the door to their reading areas, then I could try it, get sick of it, and not be bothered 😁

@libraries @librarians @bookbubble @bookstodon @humour

#Library […]

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Loving this: "The Copilot Delusion"

Quotes:
"Copilot isn’t that. It’s just the ghost of a thousand blog posts and cocky stack-overflow posts whispering, "Hey, I saw this once. With my eyes. Which means it's good code. Let’s deploy it." Then vanishing when the app hits production and the landing […]

Welp, I have just cancelled my Microsoft Office 365 recurring subscription.

Two reasons.

1. I only ever use it to check tracked changes to the copy edits on novels—once a year—which my publishers process in Word. As of this month, LibreOffice is good enough for the job (just tested at book […]

A large collection of bioinformatics question–query pairs over federated knowledge graphs: methodology and applications

Got a #knowledgegraph want some use cases and example queries and how to share them: Read our paper in GigaScience https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/doi/10.1093/gigascience/giaf045/8133871?searchresult=1 Join us in #SPARQLing your #SPARQL to improve your #SPARQL ;)

Adrian Schwend on another platform: "Super happy to see that RDF 1.2 and SPARQL 1.2 (formerly known as RDF-star) will land in a first, experimental version in Apache Jena."

The #ELIXIRMetabolomics community is tackling key challenges in standards adoption, high-quality metadata, and data integration. The new RCI-M project (“Next level of reproducible, comparable and integrable Metabolomics”)-just funded by ELIXIR-brings together 11 labs across 9 nodes together […]

The race is on

Ben je onderzoeker/ondersteuner bij een hogeschool en klinkt "leer hoe je data kunt ordenen en opschonen met behulp van spreadsheets en OpenRefine. Ook leer je de beginselen van statistiek met R" als iets waarmee je de 2 dagen tijdsbesteding snel weer ruimschoots terugverdient? Zet dan 11 en 12 […]

Thanks to AWS's Sergey Melnik, as well as HN commenters matashii and Ants Aasma, we now know that Long Fork in PostgreSQL clusters is caused by a disagreement between primaries and secondaries on the order in which transactions become visible […]

question, I am looking for a #Java fundtion/library that does String replacement, but that returns all variations with at least one replacement.

For example, if I start with "xxAxAxxA" and I would do a replace("A'", "B"), I would get all of these:

"xxAxAxxA" (optional)
"xxAxAxxB"
"xxAxBxxA" […]

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@cthoyt @Cmungall do you have any further plans for ChemRof or is it a dead project?

I've got a quick favour to ask. If you're reading this post on Mastodon (or the Fediverse), please click share.

How come?

I recently moved across to my own self-hosted single-user server (using GoToSocial.org). For a bunch of reasons, including visibility across the Fedi, it would really help out.

Many universities and research institutes have their own #Gitlab or #Gitea instances, which is a good thing. But are there any plans for these instances to be federated ? It's a bit cumbersome to open a new account on a new instance every time I want to collaborate on a project. #openscience

ISO 26324:2025 Information and documentation — Digital object identifier system

Looking for a copy of https://www.iso.org/standard/88862.html does anyone know if there are cheaper legal options to access these specifications or drafts thereof ?

It is maddening how stingy and bureaucratic societies and academic institutions are.

Many expect me to work for free, only offer economy flight tickets, and have me fill out forms for hours.

It is almost as if they do not value science integrity.

I am very thankful to my Patreon supporters!