For the last few years, federal data leadership has been moving in an “open” direction. Federal policies and legislation have directed agencies to make their data more open, to use open source ...

I just read Glyn Moody's post on the importance of open data and, increasingly, open source, in science. Good science requires good data--data available to any who want to replicate another's results ...

Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and other tech media. Asay has also held a variety of executive roles with leading mobile and big data software ...

While not new, the use of “open data” is on the rise as teams everywhere look for existing low-cost datasets to facilitate their projects without the need to personally incur the time, expense and ...

Rochester Institute of Technology is establishing Open@RIT, an initiative dedicated to supporting all kinds of “open work,” including — but not limited to — open source software, open data, open ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. OpenUK is the open technology advocate organisation for open data, open source hardware and open source software ...

Open source is at a crossroads. For the past few years, venture capital has directly or indirectly paid for many of the contributors and much of the infrastructure it needed to keep going. That was ...

French open-source data-integration vendor Talend SA today unveiled its data profiling application, which will allow companies to assess their data quality as a key part of data integration projects.

Open-source software startups building data products are having a moment. In just the last few months, we've seen startups such as Airbyte, ClickHouse, PostHog and RudderStack quickly grow strong ...

Directus, the developer of an open-source data management platform for the enterprise, today announced that it has raised $7 million in new funding to focus on growing its no-code app that can be ...

Local advocates pushing for rent control and eviction protections hang up a sign in the courtyard of an apartment complex in Southern California. Housing and local gov advocates are calling for the ...