MORE 'NEW-RESOURCES' POSTS
From the National Science Foundation: Centuries of discovery document the diversity of life on Earth. Records of that biodiversity are, for the most part, in varied and distinct natural history collections, making assessing the information a difficult task. Now, the National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections program, is responding to the need […]
Internet Archive Canada Must Let 75% of Its Workforce Go
Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|Some unfortunate news to begin the weekend. Let’s hope new funding for IA Canada will allow the program to cancel the need to let workers go or if the staff decrease does happen proper funding returns ASAP. From a Toronto Star Article: If they had a million dollars, they’d buy more time. But a vast […]
The NLI Blog from the National Library of Ireland Debuts
Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, National Libraries
|Congrats to everyone at the National Library of Ireland on the debut of your new blog. The first post was written by by Fiona Ross, the Director of the NLI. She writes: The National Library of Ireland was established in 1877 and the doors of our magnificent building on Kildare Street were first opened to […]
From The Guardian’s Data Blog: On 9 July the Republic of South Sudan becomes the earth’s newest country – instantly making the world’s atlases completely out of date. So here’s your new guide to the globe to download and explore. Just click ‘play’ and use Prezi’s pan and zoom buttons by mousing over the right […]
"Visualising China" Launches; Access More Than 8,000 Digitised Historical Photos of China (1850-1950)
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Resources, Video Recordings
|New from Bristol University (Funded by JISC) From the Visualising China Blog The site now allows users to explore more than 8000 digitised images of historical photographs of China taken between 1850 and 1950. It cross-searches metadata from Historical Photographs of China, the Sir Robert Hart Collection and Joseph Needham’s Photographs of Wartime China. [Our […]
1. Wellbeing Toronto (Beta) Wellbeing Toronto is a new web-based measurement and visualization tool that helps evaluate community wellbeing across the city’s 140 neighbourhoods. Using geographic information software, Wellbeing Toronto allows you to select, combine and weight the significance of a number of indicators that monitor neighbourhood wellness. 2. Virginia: VPharma-Calc VPharma-Calc is a database […]
Digitization Projects: "Google, Kenya Digitise Parliament Records"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, News, Open Access, Resources
|From IT News Africa: Kenyans now have free online access to debates from the Hansards, a collection of debates that date back to the pre-independence Legislative Council. The earliest edition of the Hansard indexed is the Report of the Fourth Session of the Debates for the Legislative Council, dated November 24, 1959. Until currently, these […]
International Business Research: Wolfram|Alpha Adds Data From World Bank's "Doing Business In" Dbase
|Wolfram|Alpha (an essential research tool that grows more essential just about each week) has added data from the World Bank’s “Doing Business” in database. From the W|A Blog: This data covers a wide range of issues, including import/export costs, business tax rates, and the time required to complete various business-related activities. Try the following examples […]
The infographic comes was designed by Nathan Yau at Flowing Data. Direct to Largest Data Breaches of All Time” infographic The data for the infographic comes via the DataLossDB from the Open Security Foundation. This is an EXCELLENT resource tracking data losses around the globe. Plus, stats, links to other databases, a daily update, monthly reports, […]
Access a full text paper from the Stanford Info Lab that has been accepted for publication in the Communications of the ACM Title: Information Seeking: Convergence of Search, Recommendations and Advertising (2011) Authors: Hector Garcia-Molina, Georgia Koutrika, and Aditya Parameswara From the Introduction: All of us are faced with a deluge of data”, in our […]