NFDI3d ago

Our last talk of the ELSA Webinar Series on Research Ethics before the summer break is coming up. ⚖️ 📣

Dr.-Ing. Björn Schembera, Universität Stuttgart, will present “Dark Data – when your data is lost and you don’t even know” on Wednesday, 1st July from 16:00 to 17:00 h.

➡️ No registration is required: https://www.nfdi.de/section-elsa/webinar-series-research-ethics/?lang=en

#rdm #fdm #researchdata #darkdata

Dark Data ProjectNov 30, 2025
"Because the supply chain is opaque... [companies] are unlikely to know the precise origins of the lead they use," writes Peter S Goodman, Will Fitzgibbon and Samuel Granados in @newyorktimes https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/18/world/africa/lead-poisoning-car-battery.html #darkdata
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The New York Times
Did You KnowSep 9, 2025
🔍 Did you know there's a hidden digital world lurking in plain sight? Enter #darkdata - the vast amount of unused digital info silently consuming storage and resources. From old emails to forgotten IoT sensor logs, up to 90% of org data never sees the light of day. 📈 This silent digital mountain isn't just a storage issue - it's a security risk 🚨 and environmental challenge 🌍 (1/3)
Dark Data ProjectJan 15, 2025
"Many organisms important to human health... haven't even been named, let alone studied," reports Ewen Callaway in @nature.com, citing Nicola Segata at University of Trento https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00038-x #darkdata
These are the 20 most-studied bacteria — the majority have been ignored

Model microbes such as Escherichia coli hog scientists’ attention, leaving most known bacteria with few publications devoted to them.

Kingsley Uyi IdehenFeb 19, 2015
Q: What is #DarkData about? A: See: (without inference & reasoning). #Nanotation #LinkedData #SemanticWeb #BigData
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Dark Data ProjectNov 18, 2024
Current climate data "don’t reflect recent changes such as newer pollution controls, volcanic eruptions or even the effects of Covid," writes @climateofgavin and @hausfath in @newyorktimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/opinion/climate-change-heat-planet.html #darkdata
Opinion | Climate Science Can’t Keep Up With the Warming Planet

We need more timely updates in response to the rapid changes to the climate.

The New York Times
Dark Data ProjectOct 15, 2024
Data on items transiting US ports is ostensibly public, but "it's not free, and it's unusable in the format that it comes in," according to Michael Kanko at ImportGenius, interviewed by Amanda Aronczyk on Planet Money https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/1210938268 #darkdata
Dark Data ProjectOct 4, 2024
"Hidden debts accumulate when economies are booming, and are more likely to be exposed when growth slows," reports the Economist, citing the World Bank, the University of Duisburg-Essen and the University of Notre Dame https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/10/03/a-tonne-of-public-debt-is-never-made-public #darkdata
A tonne of public debt is never made public

New research suggests governments routinely hide their borrowing

The Economist
Dark Data ProjectOct 2, 2024
"We cannot calculate with missing data, just as we can't divide by zero,” says Stef van Buuren and reported by Matt von Hippel in @quantarss https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-data-is-missing-scientists-guess-then-guess-again-20241002 #darkdata
When Data Is Missing, Scientists Guess. Then Guess Again. | Quanta Magazine

Across the social and biological sciences, statisticians use a technique that leverages randomness to deal with the unknown.

Quanta Magazine