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New searchable database from Honolulu Civil Beat with salary info (2011 and 2012 fiscal years) for 14,183 State of Hawaii employee. The database interface is embedded in an excellent article about the data and how it was gathered. We also learn: The document covers all state departments except the Hawaii Department of Education, University of Hawaii, […]
From the DOE/OSTI Web Site: Researchers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) can now make their scientific research data easier to cite and easier to find from worldwide sources. The DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) is now registering publicly available scientific research datasets created by DOE-funded researchers through DataCite. OSTI, […]
You can access the new web site at: http://www.opengovpartnership.org/ From Alex Howard (O’Reilly Radar): Open government is about to assume a higher profile in foreign affairs. On July 12, 2011, the State Department hosted an historic gathering in Washington to announce the (OGP) with Brazil and six other nations. Today in New York City, this […]
From the Development Seed Blog: This afternoon at Mashable’s Social Good Summit, USAID launched a new open data and information sharing initiative around the famine in the Horn of Africa. With this, USAID aims to take the lead in providing data to help in the response – and wants to release as much data as […]
Via the Social Science Research Network Title: “Evaluating the Impact of Open Data Websites” Author: Eleonore Fournier-Tombs Affiliation: Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Faculty of Information, http://kmdi.utoronto.ca/ Note: Paper prepared for submission at: A Decade of Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of Internet and Society, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University Abstract: Over the […]
Reference: Controlled Vocabularies "The Ethnographic Thesaurus (Beta Version) is Added to the Open Folklore Portal"
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|From the Open Folklore Blog: The AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus is now available in a beta version on the Open Folklore portal, a collaborative effort of the Society, the Indiana University-Bloomington Libraries, and the Indiana University Digital Library Program. [Clip] The AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus is a searchable online vocabulary that can be used to improve access […]
From the USDA Blog: Resources Mentioned Include: USDA National Farmers Market Directory Farmers Market Data and Ratings Comparisons API For the Farmers Market Directory Real Time Farms (Database) Eat Well Guide (Database) The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), the USDA agency responsible for the National Farmers Market Directory, will continue gathering and refining the data and […]
From the Open Knowledge Foundation Blog: Less than eight months ago, OpenCorporates : The Open Database Of The Corporate World launched with the rather ambitious goal of creating a URL for every company in the world. Five months later, it had already reached 10 million companies. And now, barely 3 months after that, it has doubled that […]
From BioMed Central: The European Commission (EC) has announced a consultation on ‘scientific information in the digital age.The consultation is running until 9th September 2011 so if you’re as interested in open access and open data as we are then the EC wants to hear your opinion on the following issues: – how scientific articles […]
Direct to DataBC Web Site From TechPresident: The province of British Columbia launched an open data portal today called DataBC that allows users to access information about schools, geology faults, and much more. British Columbia became the first provincial government to launch an open data portal with DataBC, which has made approximately 2,500 data sets […]