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From DevInfo News The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has recently launched MDG 5b+ Info, an online database system designed to track global progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other related indicators of maternal health at the country level. Adapted from the UN-endorsed DevInfo database system, MDG 5b+ Info compiles the latest […]
From Information Age: The Bibliothèque nationale de France has revamped the search engine for its online library, Gallica. Founded in 1997, the site contains over 120,000 volumes and thousands of image and recordings. In a bid to improve the accessibility of Gallica, the institution selected search software from French vendor Exalead. According to the supplier, […]
From a WSJ Article: For consumers, the just-launched IHeartNYMuseums.com collects the sometimes elusive information on free-admission times at more than 100 museums in New York City in one location. The website also lists regular hours, fees and locations. For arts providers, on the other hand, there is Battery Dance Company’s Cultural Diplomacy Toolkit, a project […]
The USGS has made a color poster available (download online) with maps and other earthquake information from Friday’s disaster in Japan. It’s a free download. Some of the things you’ll find include: + Map showing earthquake maginitude and depth + Did You Feel It”‘ map (From reports made by the public) + A seismic region […]
Japan–Earthquake/Tsunami/Nuclear Energy Resources
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, Maps, News, Profiles, Reports
|We will continue to update this collection as new resource are discovered and/or events warrant. UPDATE (3/18/2011): Publications Nature Magazine Magazine Scientific American World Nuclear News Organizations Center for International Disaster Information USAID Business GE Reports (General Electric) UPDATE (3/15/2011): Japan: Earthquake and Tsunami – Mar 2011 From ReliefWeb, UN Nations Office for the Coordination […]
NOAA — New Website Tracks Coastal, Ocean Investments and Successes by State
Funding, Jobs, Management and Leadership, Maps, News, Patrons and Users
|New Website Tracks Coastal, Ocean Investments and Successes by State NOAA’s Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM) has launched a new interactive web page that shows the scope of coastal program investments and successes in NOAA’s 34 partner states and territories. Using the latest GIS/web technology, OCRM in Your State lets users click […]
Audio: Sarah Houghton-Jan and Andy Woodworth, Authors of the E-Book User's Bill of Rights, Interviewed on The Pod Delusion
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Interviews, Libraries, Maps, Podcasts, Preservation, Publishing
|Salim Fadhley from The Pod Delusion podcast talks with Sarah and Andy about the E-Book User’s Bill of Rights that they wrote and distributed for publication on February 28, 2010. (and we posted) here. You can read it here. Here’s the Program Blurb from The Pod Delusion Web Site: Last week the publisher harper-collins anounced […]
From an Ordnance Survey Announcement (via GISUser.com) 100 stunning aerial images which form part of an extraordinary outdoor exhibition can now be viewed on a new interactive map created using Ordnance Survey data. In September 2010 Michael Palin, President of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) officially opened the Britain from the Air street gallery […]
Internet Catches Updated Butterfly and Moth Website Why should we care about butterflies and moths? Thanks to butterflies, bees, birds, and other animal pollinators, the world’s flowering plants are able to reproduce and bear fruit. That very basic capability is at the root of many of the foods we eat. And, not least, pollination adds to […]
New street level crime website proves popular The latest set of street level crime and anti-social behaviour data, alongside updated local policing information, is now available to view. The new information gives the public the power to look back and see the crimes and incidents of anti-social behaviour that have happened on or near their […]