MORE 'DATA-FILES' POSTS
Authors from University of Illinois and Stanford Univerysity: Siddharth Taduri, Hang Yu, Gloria Lau, Kincho Law and Jay P. Kesan From the Abstract (via SSRN): In recent years, there has been a massive growth of regulatory and related information available online. This information is distributed across many different domains creating a problem for accessing and […]
History + Geography: A New Online Resource Will Launch Next Week at National Library of Scotland
Data Files, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Maps, National Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|From the Visualising Urban Geographies Project Web Site: The new online resources [set to debut next week] were created by the Visualising Urban Geographies project. This collaborative project between the University of Edinburgh and National Library of Scotland has brought together sets of historical maps, census and address-based information to allow new ways of understanding […]
From a Public Lending Rights News Release (2 pages; PDF): Seven British children’s writers are among the Top 10 Most Borrowed Authors in UK libraries [Mid 2009 – Mid 2010], according to the latest annual data released today by Public Lending Right (PLR). They are Daisy Meadows, the brand behind the “Rainbow Magic” series (2nd); […]
From an NTIA Announcement: The National Broadband Map — the first public, searchable nationwide map of broadband Internet availability — and the results of a new nationwide survey on broadband adoption [was released on February 17, 2011]. The National Broadband Map…is an unprecedented searchable database of information on high-speed Internet access. NTIA created the National […]
Matt McGee from Search Engine Land Writes: Your friends’ activity on Twitter, Flickr and elsewhere — but for now, not Facebook — will soon be a lot more visible in Google’s search results, including having an impact on how pages rank. Google has announced an expansion of its Google Social Search results that’s beginning to […]
From The Bookseller: More people aged over 55 own e-readers than the younger generation, according to a new study on digital reading habits. Data released by research company OnePoll shows 6% of readers in the over-55 category–equivalent to 500,000 people–own a digital device to consume literature in comparison to just 5% of those aged 18–24. […]
"DataMarket.com Launches with 100 Million Open Data Time Series – Remains Firmly Commited to Open Data"
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Patrons and Users, Resources
|From a Guest Post on the Open Knowledge Foundation Blog by Hjalmar Gislason, founder of DataMarket.com, and member of the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Working Group on EU Open Data: We‘ve just launched an offering of statistics from some of the world’s most important sources of open data on DataMarket.com. This enables users to find, compare, visualize and download statistics […]
By Michael J. Kurtz, Johan Bollen From the arXchive Abstract: Scholarly usage data provides unique opportunities to address the known shortcomings of citation analysis. However, the collection, processing and analysis of usage data remains an area of active research. This article provides a review of the state-of-the-art in usage-based informetric, i.e. the use of usage data […]
From a Scientific American Article: Data are the common currency that unites all fields of science. As science progresses data proliferate, providing points of reference, revealing trends, and offering evidence to substantiate hypotheses. Decades into the digitization of science, however, data proliferate exponentially, at times threatening to drown knowledge and information in a sea of […]
From O’Reilly Radar: Citizens have a new tool to visualize data and map it onto their own communities. Geospatial startup FortiusOne and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have teamed up to launch IssueMap.org. IssueMap is squarely aimed at addressing one of the biggest challenges that government agencies, municipalities and other public entities have in 2011: converting […]