A few months ago, I started the #DontLeaveItToGoogle campaign on Twitter to protest Google Dataset Search and to urge funders to provide the means for creating open alternatives. The original tweet has since been retweeted and liked hundreds of times and reached 50K impressions. As I had hoped, it also started a widespread discussion about …
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#DontLeaveItToGoogle
As you may have heard, Google is building a search engine for datasets. This will mean yet another proprietary index on top of our own data that nobody can reuse – and another inferior list-based interface that will be pushed onto scientists by Google’s sheer market dominance. At the same time, there is no funding …
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