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UNdata, UN Common Database and UN COMTRADE

By robin

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.

Data curation, institutional repositories and e-Research

By robin

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.

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.

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.

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.

IASSIST 2008 - Call for Papers!

By robin

October 29, 2007

Technology of Data: Collection, Communication, Access and Preservation The 34th International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) annual conference will be held at the Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA, May 27-30, 2008. This year’s conference, Technology of Data: Collection, Communication, Access and Preservation, examines the role of technology and tools in various aspects of the data life cycle. The theme of this conference addresses how technology can affect aspects of data stewardship throughout the data lifecycle.

It is official!

By robin

July 27, 2007

For those not familiar with the Web 2.0 numeric data utility Swivel - their mission “is to liberate the world’s data and make it useful so new insights can be discovered and shared”. However, it looks like Swivel are going official! Some NGOs are directly uploading their data into Swivel while in other cases Swivel are gathering data directly from ‘official’ Web sites such as OECD, ILO, UNESCO, WHO - see http://www.

New IQ issue - intro from the editor

By robin

June 15, 2007

The IASSIST Quarterly (IQ Vol. 30 issue 2 - 2006) is now available on the web: http://iassistdata.org/publications/iq/iqvol30.html Winter came late in Denmark, but suddenly the situation was normal: snow came and traffic stopped. And now 14 days after spring was here in March. I sat outside in the sun reading articles. Still it’s more difficult to write articles outside, we are waiting for the improvements of the computer screens. However, some people have stayed inside to write articles for the IASSIST Quarterly.

Ontario University Libraries Launch New Data Service

By robin

June 15, 2007

The following press release was posted to the IASSIST listserv by Bo Wandschneider on 11 June: Ottawa: June 11, 2007 The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) is pleased to announce the launch of the Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure Initiative (ODESI), which will provide university researchers with unprecedented access to a significant number of datasets in a web-based data extraction system that will be delivered through the highly successful Scholars’ Portal model.

A really secure data center

By walterg

May 22, 2007

The May 21 issue of Boing Boing describes the InfoBunker, a “Cold War era government command bunker converted into a data center”. I realize that they’re not referring to the same kind of data center we mean, but it was kind of fun to read about a data center that has “a self-sufficient power systems (six days’ worth of diesel fuel; 17,000 gallons of water (for drinking and fire suppression); military-grade NBC air filtration).

UNdata, UN Common Database and UN COMTRADE

Data curation, institutional repositories and e-Research

DDI, institutional repositories, and numeric data mashups

More on polling cellphone users

Cellphones Challenge Poll Sampling

IASSIST 2008 - Call for Papers!

It is official!

New IQ issue - intro from the editor

Ontario University Libraries Launch New Data Service

A really secure data center

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