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Cost of ownership - CKAN for city/local government or small federal agency
What is average cost/effort to launch CKAN instance and what are operational expenses to maintain it going forward? (Assuming small size government with limited IT resources)
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Is the data used to calculate national CPI public?
What data is used to calculate the CPI (Consumer Price Index) and if it is open, where can I find it?
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Speech audio databases with phonemes labelled
Can anyone point me to opensource databases of speech audio with phonemes labelled,
.wav or the like + label files, e.g.
# time, phoneme
0.31200 ao
0.41200 th
0.54200 er
...
I'd prefer English, several speakers, and various noise levels,
but let's…
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Where can I find a repository of open data stories?
Stories that highlight the impact of open data and connect data to the individual. They can be small and regional.
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Can you use data if no data license is explicitly stated?
There are quite some datasets out there that simply doesn't contain an explicit license (e.g. CC-BY). At best a one-line statement is given that the data is "open data".
Can I simply state that when the data is available without an explicit license…
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USA 2016 election demographic data
I am looking for demographic data (age, income, race, location) for individuals who voted in the 2016 US presidential election. The resolution that I am looking for can be at the state, county, or census block level. The data format is not…
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What is the difference between US Census definitions of "Urbanized Areas" and "Urban Clusters"?
I am trying to classify US Census tracts as urban, suburban, or rural. The Census Bureau provides a table with counts of people, and classifies them as either urban: urbanized area, urban: urban cluster, or rural.
According to the US Census…
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Historical weather forecast compared to actual weather?
I am searching for a resource showing historical weather forecasts compared to actual weather data.
I'm mainly interested in seeing how accurate various forecast services have been in the past, when you compare their predictions to actual weather…
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How to include sub-classes in a Wikidata SPARQL query? (example: when querying "bands", include "rock bands")
Here is my naive query for bridges:
SELECT ?item WHERE {
?item wdt:P31 wd:Q12280. # Item's type is: bridge
}
Problem: It only returns a small fraction of all bridges, because railway bridges (and all other subclasses of "bridge") are not…
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Where can I download those bible verses in JSON or XML or SQL formatted file?
I need to make a site that has Chinese bible verses as well as English bible verses.
Where can I download those in MySQL, XML or JSON format? Can I download them for free? I need NIV version and 和合本 version.
UPDATES:
here are examples of site, data…
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How to publish open data on my website? (Or: from CSV to RDFa)
I already spent some time importing data in a tabular form from a PDF published by an official institution. I would like to publish this table on my website. The data is nicely formatted in CSV.
Is there any simple way to compile it in a ready-to-go…
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Preservation of blog posts, articles and essays
I am curious if there is there any good way to guarantee that my articles (posted on personal sites and other blogs) will last? Is there a reliable repository for articles, post and essays? Or are there any good practices of self-archiving?
Even…
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5-star Open Data rating scheme, are there URIs for the ratings?
I'm in the process of constructing a DCAT catalogue and we want to show how each dataset conforms to the 5-star open data rating scheme. I assumed that someone would have coined URIs for each rating but have been unable to find them.
Do such URIs…
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Resources to create CC0/ CC BY cartography?
Cartography and map-based mashups are often based on Google Maps/ Google Earth (all rights reserved) or Open StreetMap (ODbL/CC BY-SA), neither of which are compatible with publishing the results under CC BY (default license for open-access…
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How to get the name of a Wikidata item
Let's say I have a Wikidata item QID Q19675, and want to get the name of that item in Spanish.
While getting a property like P281 postal code is easy, how to get the name, which for some reason is not a normal property? Preferably via the REST API.
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