NEW: ASTP/ONC is going back to just "ONC." The name change also comes with a re-organization.
More on what that means for the nation's health IT:
https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/31/hhs-reorganizes-health-it-regulation-office-astp-onc/
#health #healthcare #medicine #healthIT #ASTP #ONC #HIE #healthdata #interoperability
🎤 Keynote: Oliver Stegle (DKFZ / GHGA)
What does it take to make metadata actionable at scale?
Insights from large-scale infrastructures like #GHGA, focusing on #FAIRdata, #interoperability, and secure cross-institutional collaboration.
Join us at #HMCConference2026 and register by 10 April
➡️ https://events.geomar.de/e/HMC-Conference_2026
"The State is being ripped off and hollowed out."
Listen to ORG's Exec Director @jim discuss the need for UK digital sovereignty to break from our dependence on foreign-owned Big Tech and how to escape the enshittification of social media.
Check out the @openDemocracy podcast ⬇️
#digitalsovereignty #interoperability #enshittification #socialmedia #bigtech #digitalrights #fediverse
With geopolitics in dire straits, we need digital sovereignty.
This means protecting the communication, banking, energy, travel and healthcare systems that we all rely on.
It involves diversifying the businesses who provide systems and ensuring that they meet open standards.
Sign our petition for UK Digital Sovereignty ⬇️
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-trump-s-kill-switch-secure-our-digital-sovereignty
#digitalsovereignty #opensource #interoperability #palantir #NHS #ukpolitics #ukpol
Triggering a break clause with Palantir's NHS contract shows we can ditch Big Tech.
But when they go, they take the systems with them. That's what you get by contracting suppliers who exclusively own the product.
The UK government must back interoperable open source software, so we can switch suppliers without changing systems.
https://www.ft.com/content/2d2b1af1-edea-4fd0-a081-3811e34bc52e?syn-25a6b1a6=1
#digitalsovereignty #opensource #interoperability #palantir #NHS #ukpolitics #ukpol
Good News 🎉
Germany 🇩🇪 is taking an important step toward digital sovereignty: Open Document Format (#ODF) is set to become mandatory in public administration
A strong signal for #interoperability, #transparency, and #independence 💻
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New blog post: Demystifying #ResearchData #Interoperability
Ari Asmi shares the highlights from a workshop (co-organised by the three TDCCs) on "the ugly duckling of the [#FAIRdata] acronym": Interoperability.
> Why would anyone take the effort to find obscure terms from complex technical vocabularies for our metadata, if the reason for doing this is unknown?
> (…) interoperability information is crucial for finding and reusing research data(…)
https://www.digitalscholarshipleiden.nl/articles/demystifying-research-data-interoperability
Of the FAIR principles, the ones relating to interoperability are the most challenging. Ari Asmi of the Leiden University Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarship is an interoperability expert and organised a workshop in February 2026, the key highlights of which are illustrated in this blog.
Today "ActivityStreams: Where do you want to go to today?" might be a slogan we borrowed from Microsoft.
The question is whether #ActivityStreams should be used - besides all the things it is already being used for - to also map to file systems.
The #LinkedData nature of #ActivityPub is generally shunned in favor of plain #JSON. That in itself is fine, as long as:
a) information still represents valid #JSONLD.
b) information models still follow data modeling best practices.
c) information models are designed with #interoperability in mind.
Not saying your approach is good or bad, just observing that everyone mapping and overloading their own app-specific semantics to the poor AS vocab looks to me a worst-practice. We can get away with it, as we made post-facto interop the poor man's accepted practice, lacking more rigorous extension process and guidance.
There are likely existing standardized ontologies.
🚨 New feature alert!
You can now download BOLD data packages in Parquet format, making it easier to work with large datasets in R and for better interoperability with downstream analytics.
Visit boldsystems.org/data/data-packages to get started.
#Parquet #Interoperability #BOLDSystems
https://bsky.app/profile/boldsystems.bsky.social/post/3mi4s7zvfhr2k
🚨 New feature alert! You can now download BOLD data packages in Parquet format, making it easier to work with large datasets in R and for better interoperability with downstream analytics. Visit boldsystems.org/data/data-packages to get started.
RE: https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/116295265570757213
A good thread on #vibecoding and #theFediverse. Excerpt:
"i think this just tests the #protocol and what people want to do with it to the limits, we're seeing vibe coded AT Protocol #PDSes too!
Definitely highlights rough or under defined parts of specs & tests #interoperability."
@thisismissem.social
Brittany Trang
Helmholtz Metadata Collab.
Open Rights Group
ViOffice
Centre for Digital Scholarship
🫧 socialcoding..
Teresita Porter 🙋🏻♀️
Ecologia Digital