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Pieter van Everdingen
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Data Architect at the Dutch National Police (NP), Community & Innovation Lead at Platform Linked Data Netherlands (PLDN).
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📑 A new study by @ramyachandra.bsky.social explores legal hurdles in using #opendata for #AI training. Supported by @cis-cnrs.bsky.social, inno3 & @okfn.bsky.social, her research builds on the insights from 41 legal cases.

👉🏾 The report: buff.ly/MbrM3ra

#SustainableDataCommons

📸 J. Scott CC 2.0
April 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
April 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Why Use RDF? Many reasons, some more than others. Thoughts on data representation in ... The Ontologist.
Why Use RDF
Copyright 2025 Kurt Cagle / The Ontologist
ontologist.substack.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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The info you need to understand your organization's #metadata is already there. You just need to discover and document it. @olesenbagneux.bsky.social 's Meta Grid offers a surprisingly manageable way to accomplish this seemingly daunting task.
Ole Olesen-Bagneux: enterprise metadata and the Meta Grid
Ole Olesen-Bagneux's Meta Grid is a system for understanding and sharing information about an enterprise's metadata.
buff.ly
March 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Good news! Our Knowledge Graph Construction Workshop deadline has been extended to March 20, 2025. Don't miss out! :-) #Workshop #DeadlineExtended
March 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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New blog entry: Converting RDFS schemas to SHACL constraints — with SPARQL, of course. www.bobdc.com/blog/rdfs2sh...
Converting RDFS schemas to SHACL constraints
With SPARQL, of course.
www.bobdc.com
March 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT! Join us on Feb 28 from 12pm-1pm EST for a "lunch 'n learn" webinar:
"Digital Twinning Public Infrastructure: Using Linked Open Data, Federated Repositories and Machine Learning to Build Your First Digital Twin"
Registration and more info here: tinyurl.com/2h699kp6
February 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Applications are now open for the 2025 International Semantic Web Research Summer School - #ISWS2025
in Bertinoro, Italy, from June 8-14, 2025
Topic: Knowledge Graphs for Reliable AI
Application Deadline: 15.3.2025
Webpage: 2025.semanticwebschool.org
#semanticweb #knowledgegraphs #AI #generativeAI
February 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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There are many places where knowledge graphs are the perfect tool for an organization, and even when not, they can often provide valuable supplemental capabilities. A look at KGs in the latest … The Ontologist.
When Do You Need A Knowledge Graph?
A Quick Guide to KGs
open.substack.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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🦠 "Understanding ecological systems using knowledge graphs: An application to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza" explores how #knowledgegraphs can be used to integrate diverse #ecological data for HPAI research: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf016
February 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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[HTML] Mediating social and informational #serendipity
www.sciencedirect.com
January 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Waag Futurelab roept met de campagne #MakeSocialsSocialAgain alle culturele en maatschappelijke organisaties en gebruikers op om actief in te zetten op alternatieve sociale mediaplatformen die publieke waarden waarborgen.

Meer informatie vind je op www.makesocialssocialagain.nl
January 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Teken nog voor morgen de petitie ‘Stop niet met VPRO’s Tegenlicht’. Een van de weinige crossmediale journalistieke programma’s met diepgravende geopolitieke analyses én serieus toekomstperspectief. petities.nl/petitions/st...
Stop niet met VPRO Tegenlicht
De community van VPRO Tegenlicht vindt het besluit van de hoofdredactie van VPRO om in 2025 te stoppen met dit programma onbegrijpelijk. Als achterban willen we een krachtig signaal afgeven dat Tegenl...
petities.nl
January 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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🌎 It’s time to reclaim social media.
Billionaires & venture capital shouldn’t control our digital lives.

#FreeOurFeeds is raising $4M to build a public-interest alternative.

Chip in today to make it happen freeourfeeds.com
Free Our Feeds
Let's take social media away from billionaire capture.
freeourfeeds.com
January 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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De Nederlandse overheid moet per direct van sociale media platformen van Big Tech-bedrijven af. Dit roepen we samen met @waag.bsky.social, SETUP, PublicSpaces en De Goede Zaak op.

www.bitsoffreedom.nl/campagnes/op...
Oproep aan de Nederlandse overheid: vertrek van de sociale media van Big Tech!
Bits of Freedom komt op voor internetvrijheid door de online grondrechten op communicatievrijheid en privacy te beschermen.
www.bitsoffreedom.nl
January 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
'The Legendary Soul Man' Sam Moore RIP

youtu.be/cAA_LUCb0QE?...

This track is from the album 'Rhythm, Country and Blues', produced by Tony Bown and Don Was in 1994.
Conway Twitty ft. Sam Moore - Rainy Night In Georgia (Official Video)
YouTube video by ConwayTwittyVEVO
youtu.be
January 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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New W3C SHACL Working Group: www.w3.org/2024/12/data...
Data Shapes WG Group Charter
www.w3.org
December 24, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Watching a documentary of the restauration of the Notre Dame on France 2. What a ‘tour de force’ and what a treat for all the craftsmen (and women) that could work on this project during the past 5 years (and also very good for their resume)

#notredame #restauration #craftsmenship #heritage #france
December 7, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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🎉 Recap from Wikidata Wizardry 101 tutorial with @NicolasFerranti & @AxelPolleres! #ISWC 2024 #Wikidata

Covered:
📊 Data model, 10x querying
🔄 Hands-on APIs, dumps & self-hosting
✅ Constraints!
🛠️ Advanced repair strategies
🌍 Wikidata & Wikibase

Check out tutorial resources: ww101.ai.wu.ac.at
December 5, 2024 at 4:27 PM
I’ve permanently moved away from X, since it has become more and more a toxic social media platform, where my timeline was flooded with very childish and unnecessary provoking and polarizing messsages by Elon Musk #permanentXit #revivingblueskyactivities
November 22, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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#RDF is one of those standards that brings both autonomy and cohesion. It does so through standardizing identification, structure and semantics.

www.linkandth.ink/p/liberating...
Liberating Cohesion via RDF
RDF combines universal ways to name, structure and give meaning to data using only open standards. Naming is done with URIs; the structure is always the subject-predicate-object triple, and the meanin...
www.linkandth.ink
June 5, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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My open letter marking the Web’s 35th birthday addresses the erosion of the web’s core values and resulting power imbalances that are influencing transformative technologies, reshaping geopolitics and driving economic shifts. The time to act is now.

👉 medium.com/@timberners_...
Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter
Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s open letter to mark the occasion of the Web’s 35th Birthday.
medium.com
March 12, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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🥁 Here's our Annual Report for 2023! 🥁 It was a year of transition for @okfn.bsky.social in which we launched important initiatives and continued advancing #openknowledge globally.

Spoiler: 🗺️ Don't miss the timeline! okfn.org/en/newsroom/...

Now ready for a hands-on 2024!
Annual Report, 2023 – Open Knowledge Foundation
We ended 2023 hopeful that our contributions can be key to creating “a fair, sustainable and open future”.
okfn.org
January 22, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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New blog entry: Appreciating the SPARQL property path slash character more—querying for labels and more. www.bobdc.com/blog/slashno...
Appreciating the SPARQL property path slash character more
Querying for labels and more.
www.bobdc.com
January 21, 2024 at 3:38 PM