MORE 'OPEN-DATA' POSTS
Two New Reports From UK: The Benefits to the Private Sector of Open Access to Higher Education and Scholarly Research & Open Access Fees Report
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Open Access, Publishing, Reports, School Libraries, Video Recordings
|Title: The Benefits to the Private Sector of Open Access to Higher Education and Scholarly Research (52 pages; PDF) Authors: Dr. David Parsons, Dick Willis and Dr. Jane Holland and Title: Open Access Fees Report Commissioned by Open Access Implementation Group From a Summary: JISC welcomes the UK Open Access Implementation Group’s (OAIG) reports and […]
From the AP: A New Jersey university will be the new home for nearly 15,000 documents associated with Bruce Springsteen. Books, concert programs, magazines and newspaper articles formerly kept at the Asbury Park Public Library will be moved to Monmouth University in West Long Branch on Nov. 1. The material has outgrown the library, which […]
From the U.S. Census: We are pleased to announce the release of an updated Beta version of DataFerrett, which includes several new features designed to improve access to the 2005-2009 5-year ACS Summary File in DataFerrett. DataFerrett is a unique data analysis and extraction tool-with recoding capabilities-to customize federal, state, and local data to suit […]
Six Provocations for Big Data The era of Big Data has begun. Computer scientists, physicists, economists, mathematicians, political scientists, bio-informaticists, sociologists, and many others are clamoring for access to the massive quantities of information produced by and about people, things, and their interactions. Diverse groups argue about the potential benefits and costs of analyzing information […]
British Library Welcomes Europe’s National Librarians Support of Open Data Licensing
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News
|From the BL: The British Library welcomes the announcement made by the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) to support the open licensing of their data (28 September 2011). This will mean that datasets describing millions of books and texts published in Europe will become increasingly accessible for anyone to re-use for whatever purpose their […]
CIDOC Recommendations for Object Identifiers for Linked Open Data
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News
|Via Collections Link: As more museums, archives and libraries look ahead to the opportunities afforded by Linked Open Data, there is increasing interest in the issue of how to identify objects uniquely and persistently so that the identifiers can resolve to an original information source. [Clip] To help cultural professionals establish consistent systems for approaching […]
From the Cochrane Collaboration: An international non-profit organisation committed to providing the most reliable evidence of the benefits and harms of healthcare interventions has released a statement calling for free access to all data from all clinical trials in order to provide the best care for patients globally. In its statement, The Cochrane Collaboration argues […]
New Article from EDUCAUSE: "Digging into Archaeological Data"
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access
|From an EDUCAUSE Review Article by Elizabeth A. Waraksa: Among the various types of electronic resources for the study of the ancient world, open access collections of primary archaeological data—for example, the Archaeology Data Service (http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/) and the Archaeobotanical Database (http://www.cuminum.de/archaeobotany/)—are a particular boon for researchers, especially those for whom annual fieldwork may not always […]
From the Montreal Gazette: The city of Montreal contracts $1.5 billion in goods and services a year, so the public should be able to track where all that money goes. That’s what we here at The Gazette believe, so we built an online database of municipal contracts to provide the public with a gateway to […]
New From Archivist of the United States: NARA Celebrates the U.S. Entry into Open Government Partnership
Archives and Special Collections, Management and Leadership, News
|David Ferriero writes: Yesterday, President Barack Obama unveiled the U.S. National Action Plan during a meeting in New York of the member nations of the Open Government Partnership. Last Week, the White House also issued a Status Report on the Administration’s Commitment to Open Government. Over the past year and a half, I’ve written a […]