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DPLA Uploads Over 1.25 Million Media Files to Wikimedia Commons During First Year of Sloan Foundation Funded Project
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From a Digital Public Library of America Post: Early last year, DPLA embarked on a new project, supported by Sloan Foundation, to make images from DPLA’s aggregation of more than 40 million cultural heritage artifacts accessible to vast new audiences via Wikimedia. January 2021 marked the one-year anniversary of this project, and we wanted to […]
Research Tools: “NYU Professor Creates COVID-19 Dashboard to Compare Country and State Data”
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From New York University: A new online dashboard, created by NYU Professor Alexej Jerschow, brings together COVID-19 data from U.S. states and countries around the world to compare cases, deaths, vaccines, and testing in a visual, user-friendly format. The tool also integrates a range of policies governments have implemented to limit the spread of COVID-19—including […]
Report: “How a Torrent of COVID Science Changed Research Publishing — in Seven Charts
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From Nature: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted science in 2020 — and transformed research publishing, show data collated and analysed by Nature. Around 4% of the world’s research output was devoted to the coronavirus in 2020, according to one database. But 2020 also saw a sharp increase in articles on all subjects being submitted to scientific […]
A New Global Data Dashboard From The World Bank, “Evolution of the Pandemic Through the Lens of Google Searches”
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From The World Bank Data Blog: …a [new] global dashboard that compiles publicly available Google search data and can be used by policymakers and the general public to understand how internet search interest for different terms or phrases can be used to effectively assess the spread of the coronavirus in real-time for almost 200 countries […]
Next Gen Library Publishing (NGLP) Project Shares Technical Development Directions and Issues a Request for Participation
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From an Educopia Announcement by Kristen Ratan, Katherine Skinner, Catherine Mitchell: Following more than a year of research and engagement with library publishers, the Next Gen Library Publishing (NGLP) project is pleased to announce its technical development directions. We are now commissioning the build of two components: a cross-content web delivery/discovery platform and a cross-platform […]
New White Paper: Open For All: Exploring the Reach of Open Access Content to Non-Academic Audiences”
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From Springer Nature: The latest results of research carried out between Springer Nature, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) and the Dutch University Libraries and the National Library consortium (UKB), illustrates a substantial advantage for content published via the Gold OA route where research is immediately and freely accessible. Since the UN’s Sustainable […]
Live Tracker From Harvard and Microsoft Notes COVID Cases, Deaths by Congressional Districts
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From the Harvard Gazette: Researchers at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and Microsoft AI for Health have created a COVID-19 live tracker that monitors the current status of virus cases and deaths, as well as the reduction of new cases, […]
Research Tools: USGS Announces Launch of National Water Dashboard, Features Real-Time Water Levels, Flood Forecasts, & More
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From the U.S. Geological Survey: The U.S. Geological Survey announced Friday the completion of a new mobile tool that provides real-time information on water levels, weather and flood forecasts all in one place on a computer, smartphone or other mobile device. The new USGS National Water Dashboard, or NWD, provides critical information to decision-makers, emergency […]
Research/Journal Article: “Using Open Data to Inform Public Library Branch Services”
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Note: A full text preprint/open access version of the article linked below is available here (via OSF.io) Title Using Open Data to Inform Public Library Branch Services Authors Karalyn R OstlerInformation School, University of Washington Bree NorlanderInformation School, University of Washington Nicholas Weber Information School, University of Washington Source Public Library QuarterlyDOI: 10.1080/01616846.2020.1798206 Abstract This […]
“The Unsung Mapmakers: The Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Dashboard Requires an Array of Behind-the-Scenes Expertise From Staff at Multiple Divisions, Selflessly Working at All Hours. Here’s Their Story.”
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From Johns Hopkins University: In the early days of managing the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 dashboard, experts at the university and those at Esri, the company providing the mapping software for the real-time pandemic tracker, had a friendly rivalry. “They would tell us, ‘Oh, your COVID map is big, but not as big as our Pokémon […]
