June 30, 2008
The June 23, 2008 issue of WIRED MAGAZINE (issue 16.07) has several stories about large datasets. The Petabyte Age: Because More Isn’t Just More – More Is Different Sensors everywhere. Infinite storage. Clouds of processors. Our ability to capture, warehouse, and understand massive amounts of data is changing science, medicine, business, and technology. As our collection of facts and figures grows, so will the opportunity to find answers to fundamental questions.
June 19, 2008
Like everyone else, I’ve managed to catch up after being out of the office. But IASSIST was worth every minute! It was a pretty jampacked week, so I’m just getting around to blogging a few observations. I allocated too few moments to visiting the poster sessions. One that intrigued me was the Digital Library Federation’s American Social History Online project, or Aquifer. (Maybe it’s the fact that I was a history major.
June 2, 2008
And another conference has passed. It’s so sad to think that it will be another year before we get together again but at least we can play virtually on our lists, this blog and maybe even in SecondLife! I’m still trying to round up more conference reports but in the meantime, here’s the official conference song lyrics. Sing to the tune of The Band’s song “The Weight” In case the tune doesn’t come to mind immediately, here’s a clip on YouTube from the movie “The Last Waltz”.
May 29, 2008
So I had the best intentions to blog the conference but alas I was distracted - creating my SecondLife avatar to be able to participate virtually as well as in reality was far more interesting than I want to admit! My teenagers were appalled when they found out I was on Facebook - what will they say when I tell them about SusieQue! As a technology-oriented association hosting a technology-themed conference, it is maybe not surprising that we should experiment a bit.
May 26, 2008
May 21, 2008 – The Alliance for the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is pleased to announce the official release of Version 3.0 of the DDI XML specification for documenting social science data. This long awaited version of the DDI represents a major advance by fully incorporating XML Schemas and moving to a data life cycle approach. We thank all the members of the DDI working groups as well as DDI users who have volunteered their time and efforts over the past years to make this specification a reality.
April 22, 2008
Happy Earth Day to everyone!! Hope your day is filled with loads of celebratory reducing, renewing, and recycling. Registration for this year’s IASSIST Conference (May 27-30): “Technology of Data: Collection, Communication, Access and Preservation” is proceeding at a rumbling pace, and the five conference hotels have been filling with eager California-bound IASSISTers. However, if you still have not made your arrangements for this year’s conference, please consider doing so. Early registration ends soon (May 2), and of more immediate concern, the conference hotels will begin dropping our room blocks (and guaranteed conference rates) beginning this Friday, April 25.
March 11, 2008
[copied from a post to the IASSIST membership list by Terrence Bennett.] I’m sure that this announcement will show up on a lot of lists, but in case you haven’t yet seen it elsewhere, here it is. The Census Bureau is enhancing “American FactFinder,” the Internet gateway for downloading data from the Census, the American Community Survey, and other selected Census Bureau resources. If you would like to suggest enhancements to AFF (or just to learn about the enhancements that are already planned), you can do so at: https://questionweb.
February 28, 2008
I took a long look at UNData the other day and came away thinking “pretty; looks functional; how does it relate to other UN products, esp. the ones we’re paying for”. I sent those questions to the feedback address and Mr. Zoltan Nagy responded with the following helpful information. Thought I’d share in case others had the same questions… I took a long look at UNData the other day and came away thinking “pretty; looks functional; how does it relate to other UN products, esp.
February 22, 2008
Luis Martinez-Uribe, Digital Repositories Research Co-ordinator, is based at the Oxford e-Research Centre and will be conducting a scoping study to capture researcher’s needs for repository services to manage, curate, preserve and disseminate research data generated in Oxford. A new blog (http://oxdrrc.blogspot.com/) has been set-up to record the progress of the project while disseminating outputs and information about relevant activities. If you are interested in following the progress of this project you can subscribe to the RSS feed (http://oxdrrc.
February 22, 2008
The Open Data Foundation is pleased to announce that an ODaF Europe 2008 meeting will take place at the UK Data Archive on April 14-15. This regional event is open to all members as well as individuals and agencies interested to learn more about ODaF or to share ideas. For further information and registration, see http://www.opendatafoundation.org/events/odaf_europe_2008.php Looking into the future, we currently anticipate holding a US regional meeting on Oct 2-3 at the Sun Microsystems headquarters in Manhattan, NY and our Annual Meeting in Washington DC in December.
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