My Faves for Friday, November 16, 2007

Australian Research Data

Towards the Australian Data Commons - a proposal for an Australian National Data Service

[tags: research data, Australia]

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My Faves for Thursday, November 15, 2007

The DCC Blawg: Free the Postcode!

A blog item advocating the end of the commercialisation of the postcode databases which allow plotting of particular postcode units on a map through an XY grid reference, and combining with all sorts of geo-referenced data. Compares to the US situation of free zip code access. Also mentions the movement for building up IP-free maps from individuals using GPS in their areas.

[tags: blogs, intellectual property, geospatial data, open data]

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My Faves for Monday, November 12, 2007

Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog » Give Us the Data Raw, and Give it to Us Now

This item criticises the effort going into "shiny front-ends" for data projects, focusing on the point that "the data is primary, the interface secondary" and that raw data (ASCII, XML, SQL dumps) is the most desirable format.

[tags: blogs, research data, open data]

ICPSR OR Meeting Session Presentations

The ICPSR Official Representative (OR) meeting powerpoints from 18-20 October, 2007 are now available.Topics include:
- Managing Geographic Data: Formats, Versions, and Legal Issues
- Symposium: "The Present and Future of Federal Funding for Social Science Research"
- Thinking Big: Promoting Relationships That Promote Data
- Institutional Repositories and Data Archives: The Facts, the Fit, the Future
- Tinkering with Teaching: ICPSR Initiatives to Connect Data and Classroom
- Privacy in the Information Age
- The Politics of Political Polling - Social Science Computing and Technology on Campus
- New activities/projects at ICPSR
- Health Data: Comparative Issues
- New Frontiers in Information Retrieval and Resource Discovery
- International Data Issues: An International Perspective on Archiving and Data Sharing

ICPSR is the Inter-university consortium for political and social research,
an institutional membership-based social science data archive based at the University of Michigan.

[tags: data, data sharing, geospatial data, data librarians, libraries, data archives]

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My Faves for Friday, November 09, 2007

Banking on biodata: primary data sharing in the life sciences

"Data sharing is catching on with sites like Swivel and ManyEyes making it possible to display, remix, and compare a wide range of data. As the practise of sharing biodata in online banks becomes more common, what are the implications for intellectual property and patient confidentiality?" (links to a 3 page article from First Author)

[tags: blogs, data sharing, data publishing, articles]

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My Faves for Thursday, November 08, 2007

http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~repwkshop/papers/murray.html

Peter Murray-Rust paper entitled Data-driven Science - A scientist's view - presented at the NSF/JISC Repositories Workshop

[tags: open data, paper, repositories]

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My Faves for Tuesday, November 06, 2007

D-Lib Magazine (September/October 2007)

Cyberinfrastructure, Data and Libraries (from D-Lib Magazine) - sept/oct 2007 - in two parts

[tags: article, data]

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