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Upcoming ODaF meetings in Europe and US

By robin

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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DDI, institutional repositories, and numeric data mashups

By robin

February 1, 2008

Announcing new deliverables from the DISC-UK DataShare project: DISC-UK DataShare: Web 2.0 Data Visualisation Tools, by Stuart Macdonald. The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and Institutional Repositories, by Luis Martinez. Both briefing papers can be retrieved from http://www.disc-uk.org/deliverables.html . There is also a new “Collective Intelligence” page with a tag cloud to links from our social bookmarks of reports, websites, and blogs related to the project themes. http://www.disc-uk.org/collective.html A newsfeed of deliverables and new bookmarks is available from the project blog at http://jisc-datashare.

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More on polling cellphone users

By jajacobs

February 1, 2008

Cellphone Numbers Just Don’t Add Much To Political Polling, By Carl Bialik, Wall Street Journal, February 1, 2008.

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Should Americans Be Able to Complete the Census Online?

By jajacobs

January 31, 2008

Using examples from Canada, Norway, and Australia, this report recommends that the U.S Census Bureau provide an online data collection option for all major household surveys that allow a paper response including the Census and promote the Internet survey response option as a secure, low-cost, and time-saving option. e-Census Unplugged: Why Americans Should Be Able to Complete the Census Online by The Information Technology And Innovation Foundation, January 29, 2008. Given the increasingly digital world that we live in, most Americans will be surprised to learn that they will be unable to complete the 2010 Census online.

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Two new developments announced at the beginning of 2008 on which to keep an eye

By administrator

January 30, 2008

First, on January 18th, an announcement was made on blog.wired.comthat Google will be hosting terabytes of science data. Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com , will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets. The storage will be free to scientists and access to the data will be free for all. The project, known as Palimpsest and first previewed to the scientific community at the Science Foo camp at the Googleplex last August, missed its original launch date this week, but will debut soon.

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"Data files should contain data."

By San

January 29, 2008

For those tech-types who do their own data munging, here’s a rant from Mark Dominus, a Perl programming wizard who was briefly stymied by trying to process a large data file from Census. As we face these issues daily in my office, I thought I’d share the frustration! Of course, he doesn’t mention where he thinks metadata “should” go but I have a pretty good idea what he would suggest…. ;-)

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Connecting the Real to the Representational: Historical Demographic Data in the Town of Pullman, 1880-1940

By San

January 8, 2008

by Andrew H. Bullen The Pullman House History Project is a part of the Pullman State Historic Site’s virtual museum and web site (http://www.pullman-museum.org/) which links together census, city directory, and telephone directory information to describe the people who lived in the town of Pullman, Illinois between 1881 and 1940. This demographic data is linked through a database/XML record system to online maps and Perl programs that allow the data to be represented in various useful combinations.

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And we're off.... IASSIST 2008 gets ready to roll!

By San

December 20, 2007

Now I start to fulfill my previous promise to completely and totally abuse my roll as managing editor of the IASSIST Communique to assist me in my roll as Program Chair of IASSIST 2008! I just want to let everyone know that we are off to a booming start. The submission deadline, although a full month earlier than in previous years, has provided a bumper crop of proposals! It seems that we’re all technologists (geeks?

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Cellphones Challenge Poll Sampling

By jajacobs

December 11, 2007

A new report from the U.S. National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) reports preliminary results that have implications for surveys that rely on telephone interviews. (Wireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, January – June 2007, by Stephen J. Blumberg, Ph.D., and Julian V. Luke, Division of Health Interview Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics.) more than one out of every eight American homes (13.6%) had only wireless telephones during the first half of 2007 Adults living in poverty (21.

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Data Visualisation Websites and Sharing Data

By administrator

December 9, 2007

Jim sent me a message earlier today about a new data visualisation website that he had discovered: StatCrunch. When I took a look at this site, I encountered an appeal for people to upload and share their data, which struck a familiar chord. It seems that all of these web-based visualisation tools make a similar appeal. This certainly is true of Swivel, Data360 and Many Eyes. Thinking back to an earlier era, statistical package vendors always included some data with their software.

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Upcoming ODaF meetings in Europe and US

DDI, institutional repositories, and numeric data mashups

More on polling cellphone users

Should Americans Be Able to Complete the Census Online?

Two new developments announced at the beginning of 2008 on which to keep an eye

"Data files should contain data."

Connecting the Real to the Representational: Historical Demographic Data in the Town of Pullman, 1880-1940

And we're off.... IASSIST 2008 gets ready to roll!

Cellphones Challenge Poll Sampling

Data Visualisation Websites and Sharing Data

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