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We present our open-source pipeline for quickly enhancing open data sets with research-focused expansions and show its effectiveness on a cornerstone open data set released by the Cook County government in Illinois. The City of Chicago and Cook County were both early adopters of open data portals and have made a wide variety of data available to the public; we focus on the medical examiner case archive which provides information about deaths recorded by Cook County’s Office of the Medical Examiner, including overdoses invaluable to substance use disorder research. Our pipeline derives key variables from open data and links to other publicly available data sets in support of accelerating translational research on substance use disorders. Our methods apply to location-based analyses of overdoses in general and, as an example, we highlight their impact on opioid research. We provide our pipeline as open-source software to act as open infrastructure for open data to help fill the gap between data release and data use.

In any industrial organization, the management of spare parts is very important because of functional and economic reasons. In order to have a good level of availability of the machine it is necessary to have a stock level of spare parts. On the other hand the efficacy and efficiency of maintenance policies depend on the ability to optimize the management of such supplies. Moreover, stock of spare parts represents for a company an elevated voice of cost, since it means to immobilize capital.