Advancing Strategic Science: A Spatial Data Infrastructure Roadmap for the U.S. Geological Survey, October 2012 “Science is increasingly driven by data, and spatial data underpin the science directions laid out in the 2007 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Science Strategy. A robust framework of spatial data, metadata, tools, and a user community that is interactively connected… Continue Reading
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ACLU Launches Torture Database in Recognition of International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
ACLU: “On June 26, 1987, exactly twenty-five years ago, the Convention Against Torture became binding upon the nations that had ratified it. The United Nations later designated the anniversary of that day the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. You can read our statement, about the importance of the Convention and the steps… Continue Reading
Beta version Directory of Open access Books
“The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. [Currently there are 1098 Academic peer-reviewed books from 27 publishers.] Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in… Continue Reading
Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want
Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want – An OCLC Report: “In 2008, OCLC conducted focus groups, administered a pop-up survey on WorldCat.org (OCLCs freely available end user interface on the Web) and conducted a Web-based survey of librarians worldwide. The Online Catalogs report presents findings from these research efforts. The findings indicate, among other… Continue Reading
Millions of Harvard Library Catalog Records Publicly Available
News release: “The Harvard Library announced it is making more than 12 million catalog records from Harvards 73 libraries publicly available. The records contain bibliographic information about books, videos, audio recordings, images, manuscripts, maps, and more. The Harvard Library is making these records available in accordance with its Open Metadata Policy and under a Creative… Continue Reading
Directory of Open Access Books – DOAB
“The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into… Continue Reading
Top 10 Law School Home Pages of 2011
Top 10 Law School Home Pages of 2011, Roger Skalbeck, Georgetown University Law Center, 2 J.L. (1 J. Legal Metrics) 25-52 (2012) “For the third consecutive year, the website home pages for all ABA-accredited law schools are evaluated and ranked based on objective criteria. For 2011, law school home pages advanced in some areas. For… Continue Reading
Commentary – Online Archives Disappear Along With Unique Collections
Print libraries, book collections, book shops – targets of fiscal austerity, the growing impact and power of e-books, social media, pay walls, e-commerce structures, and changing values about print media itself – are increasing disappearing. Regardless of the application of specific determining factors, the results are increased thresholds to open access to “knowledge.” There is… Continue Reading
Mining Data From Social Media for Marketing, Trend Spotting and More?
The Economist: “The beauty of Twitter, the popular microblogging service, is that users have to keep it short: messages can only be 140 characters long. But companies that mine the stream of tweets for marketing and other purposes (see article in this week’s issue of The Economist) get much more information. [Here is a map]… Continue Reading
Paper – Extracting, Transforming and Archiving Scientific Data
Extracting, Transforming and Archiving Scientific Data – Daniel Lemire1 and Andre Vellino, National Research Council of Canada, August 23, 2011. Fourth Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries, 2011 “It is becoming common to archive research datasets that are not only large but also numerous. In addition, their corresponding metadata and the software required to analyse… Continue Reading
Library of Congress taps LII for Expertise in Legislative Information
News release: “The US Library of Congress chose the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University (LII) to help develop new methods to preserve, analyze, organize, and present Congressional legislative information and materials digitally. The project is headed by LII Director Thomas R. Bruce. Dave Shetland, Sara Frug, and Wayne Weibel will make up the rest… Continue Reading
Law.gov announces 2 yr plan to release opinions of appellate and supreme courts of 50 states and federal government
News release: “Public.Resource.Org will begin providing in 2011 a weekly release of the Report of Current Opinions (RECOP). The Report will initially consist of HTML of all slip and final opinions of the appellate and supreme courts of the 50 states and the federal government. The feed will be available for reuse without restriction under… Continue Reading
