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From the New Jersey State Courts: A searchable index of more than 80,000 attorneys licensed to practice in New Jersey is now available on the Judiciary website, njcourts.com. The database includes the date of admission to the bar, the status to practice law in New Jersey, and the county and municipality of the business office […]
Transportation: New Global Database on Bus Rapid Transit Launched
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|From Embarq (World Resources Institute): Three global organizations have teamed up to launch the most comprehensive, public database of bus rapid transit (BRT) systems around the world. The new site, BRTdata.org, was created by EMBARQ, the World Resources Institute’s center for sustainable transport, and the Across Latitudes and Cultures – Bus Rapid Transit Centre of […]
Paper — The Metadata Coverage Index (MCI): A Standardized Metric for Quantifying Database Annotation Richness
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|The Metadata Coverage Index (MCI): A Standardized Metric for Quantifying Database Annotation Richness Variability in the extent of the descriptions of data (metadata) held in public repositories forces users to assess the quality of records individually, which rapidly becomes impractical. The automatic scoring of records on the richness of their description enables sorting by quality. […]
From a Company Announcement: Springer Science+Business Media has launched a new corporate platform, Springer for R & D, which provides access to over 5.6 million research documents, all optimized for specific corporate markets. Springer for R & D aims to become the primary resource destination for all new corporate and medical customers. All articles in […]
From an OCLC Announcement: The ArchiveGrid Blog is part of OCLC Research’s beta ArchiveGrid discovery system, now freely available and providing access to primary source materials held in archives throughout the world. ArchiveGrid helps researchers contact archives to request information, arrange a visit, and order copies—all from one simple, intuitive search. The OCLC Research version […]
From the FMCSA: The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) [has] unveiled its SaferBus iPhone/iPad application – a first-of-its-kind app that gives bus riders a quick and free way to review a bus company’s safety record before buying a ticket or booking group travel. [Clip] SaferBus provides access to safety records […]
Via Art Daily: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [has released] its first online catalogue, Paintings of the Americas. The free digital publication, available here, will feature a selection of more than 400 paintings from its collection of nearly 2,000 (including new acquisitions) created by artists from the 17th through the 20th centuries. The online […]
From The Boston Globe: Locked away in town vaults and basements for years, the historical records date to 1620 and include the scribblings of town clerks from days of yore and the names of Clara Barton, Paul Revere, John Hancock, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin. The old public records are slated to go online Tuesday, […]
From The New Orleans Times-Picayune: The Historic New Orleans Collection has unveiled a new online tool for researching information on all French Quarter properties. The Collins C. Diboll Vieux Carré Digital Survey, available at www.hnoc.org/vcs/, is an electronic version of the Vieux Carré Survey, which has information on every block of the French Quarter, including […]
Access to this database is free. From Yale University Library News: The Silk Road, an interconnected web of trade routes linking the ancient societies of Asia with those of the Subcontinent and the Near East, has contributed to the development of most of the world’s great civilizations. The Yale Silk Road Database presents over 11,000 […]