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By aligning with community standards and providing rich metadata and documentation, we can improve data longevity and reproducibility—key factors in high-impact research. Investing in open formats today means your data remains valuable for decades, supporting future scientists and AI-driven discoveries.

Let’s make data work for science, not against it. Standardize, document, and share openly to accelerate research and innovation!

literally who hurt genomics to make you all encode one specific kind of number as the ASCII characters from ! to ~ as an integer input to some logarithm function, but then others of you changed the function but kept encoding it as a single ASCII character ranging from -5 to 62 (???), and then later they decided that -5 to 62 was silly and so they changed that to 0-62 and throwing away half the original range for no reason, except actually it's 0-40 by convention.

did anyone consider "encoding it as a number"

doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp1137

#AI #GenerativeAI #Law #DataStandards: "The aim is to create the legal equivalent of an electronic healthcare patient record, that any computer system can understand and exchange. And that, argue Sali supporters, will improve lawyers’ productivity and, therefore, benefit their clients.

Established in 2017, Sali comprises legal industry professionals from large law firms, in-house corporate legal teams, legal operations, big tech companies including Microsoft, and specialist legal software providers. 

The standard is supported by industry groups such as the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium and International Legal Technology Association.

Prominent legal tech suppliers are already starting to incorporate the standard into their products, the organisation says. But it remains unclear how long this will take."

ft.com/content/9304f61a-72a2-4

Financial Times · Wanted: a data standard to underpin lawyers’ use of generative AIBy Nick Huber

👋 #introduction time.

I’m Tim. I spent much of last decade building, #facilitating & #maintaining #datastandards, #research projects & communities around #opendata and #opengovernment. Formerly Web Foundation, Open Data Services Co-op & Global Data Barometer.

Now at #ConnectedByData focussing on #participation, power & community voice in #DataGovernance

Freelance work w/ #LandPortal, #GlobalVoices & #opendatacoop

Also #stroud, #greenpolitics. #adoptive #parent & primary #schoolgovernor.

#introduction for all the new folks here :) Welcome to the #Fediverse!

I'm Dylan Van Assche, Semantic Expert at Digitaal Vlaanderen working on #DataStandards and #KnowledgeGraphs. In my free time I'm a huge fan of #trains in various scales and a @postmarketOS Trusted Contributor working on the #mainline #Linux on #mobile and #FOSS.
Unfortunately, I still have a Twitter account for work reasons, but all my own content is posted here, on #Mastodon.