Questions tagged [best-practice]

Best-practice questions generally involve a short guide or tutorial related to an outstanding example of the use or implementation of Open Data principles or practices.

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What type of software is used by the Open Data community?

I am a newcomer to the world of Open Data and I would like to know what type of tools/software one could be confronted with. Not for a specific task, but mostly in general. For example: Which tools are often used regardless of the task ? Which…
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How avoid duplication in a data lifecycle?

I will put an example. I have a 1 TB CSV file, I need to conserve the raw file and sanitize then. After the sanitization near 10% of entries has changed. Both files need to be stored for years. So, what's the best way to handle the two files? I need…
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To whom does "author" refer when using schema.org's "MusicAlbum" schema?

I am trying to encode reviews of music albums. If I understand the "MusicAlbum" schema correctly, the =reviewer= is the "author" of the "review" content? Can anyone point me to examples of well-constructed reviews (MusicAlbum" or otherwise)?…
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How can I sufficiently rigorously create a list from news reports?

For a research paper I'm currently working on, I need to compile a dataset based on various news reports. Obviously, there's no way I can be sure that my list is exhaustive, but how can I compile data based on scattered news reports I find on the…
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