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Open Access to Scholarly Literature and How to Achieve It
Andrew Adams is a Professor of Information Ethics in the Graduate School of Business Administration and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics at Meiji University in Tokyo. This...
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Today is Data Innovation Day!
The Information and Technology Innovation Foundation is sponsoring Data Innovation Day today, with events around the US. From the site: The purpose of Data Innovation Day is to raise awareness about...
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Applauding the White House Memorandum on Open Access
Originally posted on the Google Research Blog by Alfred Spector, Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives Last week the Obama Administration issued a Memorandum that could vastly increase the...
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Open Data in the News and On Air
In case you missed it, International Open Data Day was greeted across Canada with events and hackathons – even a little speed dating between local developers and government officials, including...
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Hanging out with the Department of Energy
Back on February 21, the Department of Energy hosted a Google+ Hangout to talk about open data in conjunction with an early launch of energy.gov/data. Moderated by Presidential Innovation Fellow Ian...
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Public Alerts for Google Now, Google Search and Google Maps available in Canada
With floods and spring showers in the forecast, Canadians can now receive warnings of drastic weather changes directly to their mobile device or desktop. Today we’re launching official severe weather...
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Here comes the collaborative economy
When travelling, have you rented somebody’s flat as an alternative to booking a room in a hotel? Or prefered the car-sharing option to taking the train? These new ways of sharing resources are...
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International Broadband Pricing Study: Updated Dataset
Derek Slater is a Policy Manager at Google. Last year, we hired a respected consultancy, Communications Chambers, to produce an international dataset of retail broadband Internet connectivity prices....
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Civic Information API: now connecting US users with their representatives
By Jonathan Tomer, Software Engineer Cross-posted from the Google Politics & Elections Blog Many applications track and map governmental data, but few help their users identify the relevant local...
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Student applications now open for Google Summer of Code!
Posted by Mary Radomile, Google Open Source team Are you a university student looking to learn more about open source software development? Look no further than Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and spend...
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GitHub on BigQuery: Analyze all the code
Posted by Felipe Hoffa, Google Developer AdvocateGoogle, in collaboration with GitHub, is releasing an incredible new open dataset on Google BigQuery. So far you've been able to monitor and analyze...
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Which languages convey the most information in the least space? Introducing...
Several years ago a science journalist asked me which languages could pack the most information into a 140-character Tweet. Because Twitter defines a character roughly as a single Unicode code point,...
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Introducing the Open Images Dataset
Originally posted on the Google Research BlogIn the last few years, advances in machine learning have enabled Computer Vision to progress rapidly, allowing for systems that can automatically caption...
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