Fostering Interdisciplinary Data Cultures through Early Career Development: The RDA/US Data Share Fellowship

Fostering Serendipity through Big Linked Data

The amount of bio-medical data available over the Web grows exponentially with time. The large volume of the currently available data makes it difficult to explore, while the velocity at which this data changes and the variety of formats in which bio-medical is published makes it difficult to access them in an integrated form. Moreover, the lack of an integrated vocabulary makes querying this d...

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A Method for Target Setting with Share Data

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a mathematical programming technique for evaluatingthe relative efficiency of a set of Decision Making Units (DMUs) and can also be utilized forsetting target. Target setting is one of the important subjects since according to its resultsefficiency can be increased. An important issue to be currently discussed, is to set targetwhile considering share data. The...

Data reduction through early grouping

SQL queries containing GROUP BY and aggre-gation occur frequently in decision support applications. Grouping with aggregation is typically done by rst sorting the input and then performing the aggregation as part of the output phase of the sort. The most widely used external sorting algorithm is merge sort, consisting of a run formation phase followed by a (single) merge pass. The amount of dat...

Open Government Data: Fostering Innovation

The provision of public information contributes to the enrichment and enhancement of the data produced by the government as part of its activities, and the transformation of heterogeneous data into information and knowledge. This process of opening changes the operational mode of public administrations, leveraging the data management, encouraging savings and especially in promoting the developm...