Why do organisation identifiers matter? Lessons from the healthcare sector

he's talking about his last blog, mtl3p, which he took down, saved to a USB key, and turned the USB key into jewelery. self-important much?

it is the coolest. you're right guy,

oh god kill me now.

Powered by Data wrote 4 of the resources on this page. "Measuring Outcomes" is about admin data. "Understanding the Philanthropic Landscape" is about open data - sp. open grants data. "Effective Giving" is an intro. And "Emerging Data Practices" is a tech backgrounder from June 2015.

A Vision for Scholarly Communication

pretty great intro to knowledge graphs

Instead of encouraging more “data-sharing”, the focus should be the cultivation of “data infrastructure”,¹⁴ maintained for the public good by institutions with clear responsibilities and lines of accountability.

blog post with feature requirements and story for improved wikibase interface. Talks about reasonator

Seized with the desire to improve the visibility of Canadian music in the world, a ragtag band of librarians led by Stacy Allison-Cassin set out to host Wikipedia edit-a-thons in the style of Art+Feminism, but with a focus on addressing Canadian music instead. Along the way, they recognized that Wikidata offered a low-barrier, high-result method of making that data not only visible but reusable as linked open data, and consequently incorporated Wikidata into their edit-a-thons. This is their story.

an article I like - maybe

all the data

Engaging the Public Through Wikipedia: Strategies and Tools

There is a serious crisis of discoverability. To overcome it, we have to tear down the walls of dark knowledge and invest in the open discovery infrastructure, esp. user interfaces.

Mithering about the unmodellable. "Sometime late last year I went to the Euro IA conference with Anya and Silver to give a talk on the domain modelling work we've been doing in UK Parliament."

to consider applying for this for Admin Data Coalition work.

Psychological safety is an organizational climate in which individuals feel they can speak truthfully and openly about problems without fear of reprisal.

An emerging body of evidence featuring the social side of evidence use—infrastructure, capacity, relationships, and trust—points the way toward a more nuanced understanding of evidence use.

Super cool. The difference between annotating the web, and annotating academic scholarship / science.

It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.