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open-source intelligence

Summary

open-source intelligence is a community[1]. It ranks in the top 0.55% of community entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,003 views/month, #2 of 365).[2]

Key Facts

  • open-source intelligence's instance of is recorded as community[3].
  • open-source intelligence's instance of is recorded as intelligence assessment[4].
  • open-source intelligence's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2006001992[5].
  • open-source intelligence's subclass of is recorded as data collection[6].
  • open-source intelligence's subclass of is recorded as military intelligence[7].
  • open-source intelligence's subclass of is recorded as tradecraft[8].
  • open-source intelligence's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/022c5r[9].
  • open-source intelligence's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Open-source intelligence[10].
  • open-source intelligence's described at URL is recorded as https://restofworld.org/2022/osint-viral-ukraine/[11].
  • open-source intelligence's described at URL is recorded as https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/magazine/03intelligence.html[12].
  • open-source intelligence's described at URL is recorded as https://osintfr.com[13].
  • open-source intelligence's described at URL is recorded as https://osintframework.com/[14].
  • open-source intelligence's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'OSINT'}[15].
  • open-source intelligence's FAST ID is recorded as 1739916[16].
  • open-source intelligence's uses is recorded as digital investigation[17].
  • open-source intelligence's name is recorded as {'lang': 'syl', 'text': 'ꠈꠥꠟꠣꠝꠦꠟꠣ ꠉꠥꠄꠘ꠆ꠖꠣ ꠔꠁꠔ꠆ꠔ'}[18].
  • open-source intelligence's practiced by is recorded as OSINT analyst[19].
  • open-source intelligence's Quora topic ID is recorded as Open-Source-Intelligence[20].
  • open-source intelligence's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776329517[21].
  • open-source intelligence's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007547115705171[22].
  • open-source intelligence's Lex ID is recorded as OSINT_-_Open_source_intelligence[23].
  • open-source intelligence's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 공개출처정보[24].
  • open-source intelligence's GitHub topic is recorded as osint[25].
  • open-source intelligence's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 323852[26].
  • open-source intelligence's WikiKids ID is recorded as Open_source_intelligence[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for open-source intelligence include OSINT Unit of the Year Award[28], an award[29], in United States[30].

Why It Matters

open-source intelligence ranks in the top 0.55% of community entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,003 views/month, #2 of 365).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for it include OSINT Unit of the Year Award[28], an award[29], in United States[30].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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