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Open Data: SAP/Microsoft/Adobe Team for Open Data Alliance

By Dick Weisinger

Recently, Adobe, Microsoft and SAP announced the Open Data Initiative, a plan where the three vendors work together to create better data interoperability between their software products. Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO , said that “together with Adobe and SAP, we

Open Data: AI Defends Open Data Against Malicious Graffiti, but is not yet Foolproof

By Dick Weisinger

Open Data projects like Wikipedia provide useful repositories of information.  But open data repositories are often targets of malicious edit attacks. Data is changed in ways to alter or deface information. Three years ago, Wikipedia deployed AI to try to

Open Data: Microsoft Bing Contributes Building Footprint Data to OpenStreetMap

By Dick Weisinger

OpenStreetMap recently released 125 million US building footprints, contributed by Microsoft,  as part of their open available geo-data set.  The work at Microsoft was done as part of the Bing search engine.  OpenStreetMap is a free and editable map of

Open Data: Making Cities Smarter, More Innovative, and More Proactive

By Dick Weisinger

Open Data is the idea that data, particularly data collected by local, state and federal governments, should be made freely available for people to use and republish without any control or copyright restrictions. In the US, cities like Austin and

Open Data and Research: Building a Culture that Encourages Sharing

By Dick Weisinger

More than ever, researchers are sharing their data with others. That’s good news, but sharing data is a tricky proposition. Many businesses that perform research consider their work proprietary and keep their data private in order to gain an edge