DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 21 2008 | open data, geospatial data, blogs, report
A short and sweet summary of the Cambridge report sizing up the UK Trading Funds (such as the Met Office, Land Registry and the Ordnance Survey) and their business models. Bottom line? Opening up the data vaults at these agencies "could benefit the economy to the tune of net £164m." Link through to the full report and on to the Guardian's Free Our Data Campaign.
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 15 2007 | blogs, intellectual property, geospatial data, open data
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.
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 12 2007 | research data, data sharing, geospatial data, data librarians, libraries, data archives
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 SharingICPSR is the Inter-university consortium for political and social research,
an institutional membership-based social science data archive based at the University of Michigan. - DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 30 2007 | web2.0, mashup, geospatial data, data publishing
GeoCommons is a place to explore, create and share intelligent maps and geographic data.
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 24 2007 | geospatial data, licensing, data sharing, data management, institutional repositories, data archives, project, report
The EDINA GRADE project deliverables, including a report on Geospatial data sharing behaviour in UKHE, Charlotte Waelde's groundbreaking report on licensing of geospatial databases (this challenged the Ordnance Survey view that their data is covered by copyright rather than simply the EU Database Directive), Pauline Simpson's survey or 'baseline audit' of geospatial data in IRs, and a compendium of derived geospatial data in UKHE.
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 26 2007 | geospatial data, web2.0, mashup
Free planetary modelling programs like Google Earth can display environmental data in spectacular and easy-to-access ways
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