This guide is intended to serve as a helpful reference tool for the data sets available from the HUD USER Clearinghouse, and on our website at www.HUDUSER.org. We have provided a brief description of each data set along with its Web address, release data, format(s), and the time frame to which the data applies.
DataFirst is a Survey Data Archive and training facility at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. The Archive’s holdings include the datasets from all major South African surveys, as well as survey data from other African countries. Researchers can access the data and supporting documentation from the DataFirst Resource Centre. Researchers further afield can download data documentation and public access datasets via the DataFirst data catalogue. The website provides access to bibliographies of literature using the survey data. These bibliographies include links to the full-text articles where these are available.
compiled by the EBSS Reference Sources & Services Committee[1], a division of the Association of College and Research Libraries. We created this directory with the goal of creating a resource for librarians who regularly need to find statistics for their patrons. We welcome additions or comments. General United States Statistics, Education Statistics, Gerontology Statistics, Psychology Statistics, Social Work Statistics
Governments around the globe are opening up their data vaults – allowing you to check out the numbers for yourself. This is the Guardian’s gateway to that information. Search for government data here from the UK (including London), USA, Australia and New Zealand – and look out for new countries and places as we add them.
The National Data Catalog (NatDatCat) is an open platform for government data sets and APIs. NatDatCat makes it easy to find datasets by and about government, across all levels (federal, state, and local) and across all branches (executive, legislative, and judicial). The data here is imported from several sources and curated by our staff. Currently, we have importers setup for Data.Gov and the DC Data Catalog. NatDatCat is a project of the Sunlight Labs at the Sunlight Foundation. The platform consists of an API and a Web application.
OBIS-USA is a one-stop source for biogeographic data collected from U.S. waters and oceanic regions-the Arctic, the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Great Lakes. It provides access to highly distributed data sets from a multitude of partners DOCUMENTing where and when species were observed or collected. The site allows one to examine each data set to assess its applicability for a variety of uses. Current functionality allows the user to view the data and FGDC compliant metadata as well as to view geographic, temporal or spatial extent; the taxonomic depth and richness.
The objectives of this initiative are to establish easier access to scientific research data on the Internet, to increase acceptance of research data as legitimate, citable contributions to the scientific record, and to support data archiving that will permit results to be verified and re-purposed for future study. DataCite will promote data sharing, increased access, and better protection of research investment.
Data Sources on Older Americans (DSOA) highlights the contents of government-sponsored surveys and products containing statistical information about the older population. All Federal agencies are invited to contribute to this report and participate in the Forum. Starting in 2009, DSOA includes some non-federal data sources. T he Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics
a quick list of companies working to aggregate, distribute, and market data via the Internet. While there are definitely differences in their goals/business models, each of these organizations has an interest in warehousing semi-public data sources for general consumption.
REACTOME is a free, online, open-source, curated pathway database encompassing many areas of human biology. Information is authored by expert biological researchers, maintained by the Reactome editorial staff and cross-referenced to a wide range of standard biological databases.
The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS) is a broad-based partnership devoted to identifying, acquiring and preserving data at-risk of being lost to the social science research community. The partners coordinate identification, acquisition, and cataloging of data at risk; develop best practices for data archiving; and create a shared infrastructure and practices for cataloging and preservation. Data-PASS is led by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan, the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut, the Howard W. Odum Institute at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the Henry A. Murray Research Archive, a member of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, the National Archives and Records Administration, and the Harvard-MIT Data Center.
Our mission is to make data about San Diego freely available for everyone to use. Data about San Diego are any data that describe San Diego in any way. We don't care where the data comes from, whether it's from the city government, federal sources, or any other organization that gathers data. We also want to highlight the importance of knowing how to use data. The data science industry is growing rapidly, and San Diego's economy is well-positioned to benefit from this growth. One thing we want to do at Open San Diego is shine a spotlight on data scientists and show how important and exciting their work can be.
National Archives and Records Administration. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has 149 files of the Censuses of Manufactures, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, and 1992. You can find the series description, as well as the file descriptions, in NARA's Archival Research Catalog (ARC), www.archives.gov/research/arc. The ARC ID for the series description is 574852, and it can be used as the keyword to retrieve the description.
Zanran helps you to find ‘semi-structured’ data on the web. This is the numerical data that people have presented as graphs and tables and charts. For example, the data could be a graph in a PDF report, or a table in an Excel spreadsheet, or a barchart shown as an image in an HTML page. Put more simply: Zanran is Google for data. At present, we extract tables and images from HTML, PDF and Excel files and will be processing PowerPoint and Word documents in the near future.
DataCatalogs.org aims to be the most comprehensive list of open data catalogs in the world. It is curated by a group of leading open data experts from around the world - including representatives from local, regional and national governments, international organisations such as the World Bank, and numerous NGOs. see also The Data Hub, CKAN, and the Open Knowledge Foundation.
the Data Hub is a community-run catalogue of useful sets of data on the Internet. You can collect links here to data from around the web for yourself and others to use, or search for data that others have collected. Depending on the type of data (and its conditions of use), the Data Hub may also be able to store a copy of the data or host it in a database, and provide some basic visualisation tools. This site runs on the open-source data cataloguing software called CKAN, written and maintained by the Open Knowledge Foundation. Each 'dataset' record on CKAN contains a description of the data and other useful information, such as what formats it is available in, who owns it and whether it is freely available, and what subject areas the data is about. Other users can improve or add to this information (CKAN keeps a fully versioned history). CKAN powers a number of data catalogues on the Internet. The Data Hub is an openly editable open data catalogue in the style of Wikipedia.
Roughly the specification consists of 2 parts: 1. A schema (in essence DCAT) specifying a serialization of Dataset information, and 2. A protocol / API for getting this information from a compliant data catalogue site.
tool for helping people identify and locate online repositories of research data. Over 200 data repositories have been cataloged in Databib, with more being added every week. Users and bibliographers create and curate records that describe data repositories that users can browse and search.