Open data
Openly accessible data
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| March 26 2025 | Open Energy Modelling Initiative workshop hosted by KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, with 60 attendees |
| March 25 2025 | Open Energy Modelling Initiative workshop hosted by KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, with 60 attendees |
| April 2024 | Overture Maps Foundation released its first dataset version during a beta test, making the data available in GeoParquet format through Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud platforms. |
| March 26 2024 | Open Energy Modelling Initiative workshop hosted by CRESYM and OTE in Grenoble, France, limited to 100 attendees |
| March 20 2024 |
PACER
Judge Paul L. Friedman approved a settlement to refund $100 million to PACER users and pay $25 million for attorneys fees and settlement administration.
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| 2023 | The Open Energy Modelling Initiative gains recognition with increasing adoption by regulators in the European Union and North America, with the Canada Energy Regulator specifically using the PyPSA framework for systems analysis. |
| November 13 2023 | Open Energy Modelling Initiative workshop at Stanford University in San Francisco Bay Area, United States, limited to 80 attendees |
| June 2023 | Projected start of Phase-1 clinical trials for the COVID Moonshot antiviral drug candidate targeting the Mpro protein of coronaviruses. |
| March 22 2023 | Open Energy Modelling Initiative workshop hosted by International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Vienna, Austria, limited to 65 attendees |
| 2022 |
Open scientific data
The French Open Science Monitor began publishing an experimental survey of research data publications using text mining tools, revealing that mentions of data sharing nearly doubled from 13% in 2013 to 22% in 2021.
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| 2022 |
Open scientific data
Pujol Priego, Wareham, and Romasanta conducted research highlighting incentives and barriers to scientific data sharing, emphasizing collective benefits like reproducibility and scientific efficiency, as well as individual benefits such as increased visibility and personal credit.
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| 2022 |
Open scientific data
Pujol Priego, Wareham, and Romasanta developed accommodation strategies to address tensions in open data sharing, including data modularity and time-delay mechanisms for commercial research contributions.
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| 2022 |
Open scientific data
A study of 1,792 data sharing statements from BioMed Central finds that less than 7% of authors (123) actually provided data upon request.
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| December 2022 | Overture Maps Foundation was launched under the Linux Foundation, with founding members Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom establishing an open data mapping collaboration project. |
| March 2022 | COVID Moonshot aims to select three pre-clinical candidates for potential antiviral treatments against COVID-19. |
| March 2022 |
Research Organization Registry
ROR published its first release after separating from GRID, establishing itself as an independent community-led research organization registry.
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| February 17 2022 | Online miniworkshop during COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2021 |
PACER
Open Courts Act of 2021 was introduced in the 117th Congress, proposing a system with free downloads by temporarily increasing fees for high-volume users.
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| 2021 | Participants made two written submissions on the proposed Data Act, focusing on information transfers and highlighting restrictive public disclosure practices by the European Energy Exchange (EEX). |
| 2021 |
Open scientific data
By 2021, public services and research infrastructures had largely endorsed open science as an integral part of their activity and identity, with most Research Infrastructures on the ESFRI Roadmap at the forefront of the Open Science movement.
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| 2021 |
Open scientific data
An empirical study of 531,889 PLOS articles revealed that soft incentives and encouragements have limited impact on data sharing, with journal policies that encourage (rather than mandate) Data Availability Statements having only a small effect on scientific data sharing practices.
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| 2021 |
Open scientific data
A study of 50,000 data availability statements in PLOS One demonstrated that 80% of datasets could be retrieved automatically, and 98% of datasets with a data DOI could be retrieved automatically or manually, showing improvements in data accessibility and preservation.
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| 2021 |
Open scientific data
A PLOS study of 531,889 articles revealed a 25.36% relative gain in citation counts for articles with data linked to public repositories.
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| 2021 |
Open scientific data
Colavizza et al. identified and categorized three levels of data accessibility statements (DAS): DAS 1 (data available on request), DAS 2 (data available with paper and supplementary files), and DAS 3 (data available in a repository).
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| 2021 |
Global Research Identifier Database
Public releases of GRID were discontinued in favor of the Research Organization Registry (ROR) as the leading open organization identifier.
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| November 2021 |
Open scientific data
UNESCO approved a recommendation on Open Science, defining open science infrastructures as 'shared research infrastructures that are needed to support open science and serve the needs of different communities'.
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| May 5 2021 | Online miniworkshop during COVID-19 pandemic |
| January 2021 | Unique compound design submissions reached 14,000, prompting the project to transition from a spontaneous virtual collaboration to a more organized network of specialized partners. |
| 2020 |
Linguistic Linked Open Data
Antonio Pareja-Lora, Barbara Lust, Maria Blume, and Christian Chiarcos published a collected volume summarizing LLOD developments from 2015 to 2019 titled 'Development of Linguistic Linked Open Data Resources for Collaborative Data-Intensive Research in the Language Sciences' through The MIT Press.
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| 2020 |
Linguistic Linked Open Data
A comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of LLOD vocabularies was published by Cimiano et al.
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| 2020 |
Linguistic Linked Open Data
Comprehensive review and state-of-the-art description published: 'Linguistic Linked Data: Representation, Generation and Applications' by Cimiano, Chiarcos, McCrae, and Gracia.
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| 2020 |
Linguistic Linked Open Data
W3C Community Group Linked Data for Language Technology begins working towards consolidating multiple incompatible standards for linguistic annotations.
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| December 2020 |
Open energy system databases
Second funding phase of the OPSD project concludes.
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| December 4 2020 | Held an online workshop on climate forecasting for energy, jointly organized with the S2S4E project. |
| August 2020 |
PACER
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court's judgment about improper PACER fee allocation.
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| June 2020 |
Linguistic Linked Open Data
As of mid-2020, most Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) community standards were actively being developed and maintained.
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| June 2020 |
Linguistic Linked Open Data
As of June 2020, a 'Licensed Linguistic Linked Data' cloud containing non-open resources did not exist.
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| May 2020 | Over 4,600 design submissions for potential inhibitors received, significantly exceeding the project's initial expectations. |
| May 2020 | Open Energy Modelling Initiative participants submitted a response on the European strategy for data. |
| March 2020 | COVID-19 pandemic miniworkshop series held online, consisting of 3 events throughout the year |
| March 7 2020 | COVID Moonshot project launched with open data release and Twitter announcement, challenging chemists worldwide to design potential antiviral drug candidates. |
| January 26 2020 | Zihe Rao and Haitao Yang submitted a structure of SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro) bound to an inhibitor to the Protein Data Bank, providing crucial early X-ray crystallography insights into the virus's key protein. |
| January 15 2020 | Open Energy Modelling Initiative workshop hosted by Hertie School in Berlin, Germany with approximately 190 attendees |
| January 11 2020 | Edward C. Holmes of the University of Sydney publicly releases the virus genome with Zhang's permission. |
| January 5 2020 | Zhang and his team successfully sequence the virus from the sample and deposit its genome on GenBank, an international research database. |
| January 3 2020 | Chinese virologist Yong-Zhen Zhang of Fudan University receives a test sample from Wuhan, China containing patients with a pneumonia-like illness. |
| 2019 | Organized the second Redecentralize conference, continuing the group's mission of promoting decentralized web technologies and bringing together key figures from various tech and advocacy organizations. |
| 2019 |
Linguistic Linked Open Data
NexusLinguarum COST Action network established, involving 35 COST countries, 2 neighboring countries, and one international partner country
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| 2019 |
Linguistic Linked Open Data
Pret-a-LLOD research project launched, involving 5 EU countries
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This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles COVID Moonshot, Research Organization Registry, Open energy system databases, Irina Bolychevsky, Open scientific data, Overture Maps Foundation, Open Energy Modelling Initiative, Global Research Identifier Database, Linguistic Linked Open Data & PACER (law), which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.