The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. includes Ancient, Medieval, and modern Sourcebooks, also: African History, East Asian History, Global History, Indian History, Islamic History, Jewish History, History of Science, Women's History, and An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans History.
concept definitions and subject overviews of scholarly and technical terms. Each synopsis provides a series of short, authoritative, excerpts from highly relevant book chapters written by subject matter experts in the field. These topic summaries are derived from Elsevier encyclopedias, reference works and books.
The Mary Ferrell Foundation Archive is the largest searchable electronic collection of materials related to the JFK assassination. It includes both primary and secondary sources.
Digitized books from many different libraries from the Google Book Search program. These digital files have been downloaded from the Google site and uploaded to the Internet Archive by users.
PublicData.eu will provide a single point of access to open, freely reusable datasets from numerous national, regional and local public bodies throughout Europe. PublicData.eu will harvest and federate European public datasets to enable users to search, query, process, cache and perform other automated tasks on the data from a single place.
Bay Area Rapid Transit. Raw feed of real time estimated arrivals for every station. BART has official schedules, fares and other data in the open Google Transit™ Feed Specification (GTFS). Service Advisories and more in the ubiquitous RSS format. more...
The Walt Whitman Archive is an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers. His many notebooks, manuscript fragments, prose essays, letters, and voluminous journalistic articles all offer key cultural and biographical contexts for his poetry. The Archive sets out to incorporate as much of this material as possible, drawing on the resources of libraries and collections from around the United States and around the world. The Archive is directed by Kenneth M. Price (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Ed Folsom (University of Iowa).
list of known directives with links where available. As discussed in NSPD 1, this new category of directives replaces both the Presidential Decision Directives and the Presidential Review Directives of the previous Administration.
iSolon.org is a policy institute committed to exploring and advancing opportunities for democratic reform brought about by new information technologies. It focuses on the most difficult areas of democratic reform─where elected officials have a conflict of interest in bringing about reforms that might reduce their own power. Home of Citizens Assembly News Digest.
UK Data Archive. This suite of web pages aims to provide data creators, data managers and data curators with best practice strategies and methods for creating, preparing and storing shareable datasets.
WashingtonWatch.com delivers the numbers behind proposed legislation and regulation. It is important to understand where these numbers come from and what they mean. WashingtonWatch.com starts with government predictions about the costs or savings from proposed changes to government spending, taxation, and regulation.
Linked Data is about using the Web to connect related data that wasn't previously linked, or using the Web to lower the barriers to linking data currently linked using other methods.
a blog on new media journalism run by Patrick Thornton, a new media journalist and Web developer. This blog will provide commentary, news and advice on the ever-changing face of journalism. It will also post original research and solicit comments and advice from industry experts.
a national study about early adults and their information-seeking behaviors, competencies, and the challenges they face when conducting research in the digital age. Based in University of Washington's iSchool, the large-scale research project investigates how early adults on different college campuses conduct research for course work and how they conduct "everyday research" for use in their daily lives.
On The 50th Anniversary Of The Publication Of C.P. Snow's Rede Lecture, "The Two Cultures." Edge columns from 1991-2009. The third culture consists of those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are.
media.org is a is a collective of artists/architects, netizens fueled by a passion for the potential of the Internet. Co-founded by Carl Malamud and webchick, their goal for the organization is to push the Internet to greater heights through public works and activism. They also collaborate as the Internet Multicasting Service (IMS), the nonprofit group that helped pioneer some important early content on the World Wide Web.
an experimental project focused on archiving and republishing public domain works. At this time, this service can take a book from any of the supported sites such as the the Internet Archive (books in public domain ONLY) and reprint it via print on demand techology. F
KIDS COUNT is a national and state-by-state project of the Casey Foundation to track the status of children in the United States. At the national level, the principal activity of the initiative is the publication of the annual KIDS COUNT Data Book, which uses the best available data to measure the educational, social, economic, and physical well-being of children state by state. The Foundation also funds a national network of state-level KIDS COUNT projects that provide a more detailed, county-by-county picture of the condition of children. The first national KIDS COUNT Data Book was published in 1990.
"the largest foreign exchange database on the Internet." You can obtain the historical exchange rates with the desired rate (cash, interbank, credit card), in ASCII, CSV or HTML format. y exchange rates from our exchange servers. max. 500 days per request.
OpenCongress brings together official government data with news coverage, blog posts, public comments, and more to give you the real story behind what's happening in Congress. OpenCongress is a free, open-source, not-for-profit, and non-partisan web resource with a mission to make Congress more transparent and to encourage civic engagement. OpenCongress is a joint project of the Participatory Politics Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation.
The Stanford Center for Internet and Society's "Fair Use Project" ("the FUP") was founded in 2006 to provide legal support to a range of projects designed to clarify, and extend, the boundaries of "fair use" in order to enhance creative freedom.
YQL (Yahoo Query Language) works with arbitrary structured (XML or JSON) documents with repeating elements, such as a list of restaurants or search results. Different "known" collections of these items are presented as "tables" in the YQL syntax, and are notionally namespaced based on the service providing the data.
Monsieur Proust By Céleste Albaret. Translated from the French by Barbara Bray. Foreword by André Aciman. Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world to devote himself to In Search of Lost Time.
the best source for information on eBook reading -- software, hardware, you-name-it -- is MobileRead. Don't miss the forums, in particular the user-contributed eBooks with formatting, and make sure to bookmark the Wiki Knowledgebase (it's a great resource you can contribute to!).
blog oriented toward education and technology. "dedicated to bringing students, teachers, and self-directed learners the best educational resources online. "
free real-time and historical market data for trading systems and trading platforms. over ten terabytes of historical tick data for free. Market data is available from all US stock, futures and options exchanges, including regional exchanges and electronic communication networks (ECNs) via otFeed.
Steve Schultze, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. interested in how telecommunications policy changes in the context of the internet.
Understanding Government is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to improving the performance of the executive branch by helping journalists do a better job of covering it.
The Mind is a Metaphor, is an evolving work of reference, an ever more interactive, more solidly constructed collection of mental metaphorics. This collection of eighteenth-century metaphors of mind serves as the basis for a scholarly study of the metaphors and root-images appealed to by the novelists, poets, dramatists, essayists, philosophers, belle-lettrists, preachers, and pamphleteers of the long eighteenth century. While the database does include metaphors from classical sources, from Shakespeare and Milton, from the King James Bible, and from more recent texts, it does not pretend to any depth or density of coverage in literature other than that of the British eighteenth century. There are 8,768 metaphors in the database as of December 15, 2008. Created by Brad Pasanek, an assistant professor of English at the University of Virginia, is a searchable bank of phrases, verses, and lines from literature that encapsulate metaphors of the mind.
This blog-like site is composed of experiments and explications. Treated herein are select metaphors of mind from British eighteenth-century literature. A more complete collection of metaphors—some 8,700 metaphors—is taxonomized in a beta-version of the The Mind is a Metaphor database.
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) created the Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite with the intent of providing a common format in which publishers and archives can exchange journal content. The Suite provides a set of XML schema modules that define elements and attributes for describing the textual and graphical content of journal articles
ACM has a new Web site to complement its flagship print publication Communications of the ACM. The Web site offers exclusive news, opinion, research, information, extensive content from the current issue of Communications, the complete archived issues of the publication, access to searchable content from the ACM Digital Library and from other sources around the Web, and hosts a blog section.
managed by the California Digital Library (CDL), provides public access to primary source materials and freely available UC-created web sites. Calisphere offers more than 150,000 digitized items—including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts—selected from the libraries, archives and museums of the UC campuses, and from cultural heritage organizations across California.
The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.
E. Scott Adler. The data set includes a wide range of economic, social and geographic information for every U.S. congressional district, from 1943-1998.
The "The Ranking Web of World repositories" is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain. The aim of this Ranking is to support Open Access initiatives and therefore the free access to scientific publications in an electronic form and to other academic material. The web indicators are used here to measure the global visibility and impact of the scientific repositories. Using as basis the data from the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) and The Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpendOAR) we have compiled a list of repositories with an autonomous web domain or subdomain
An online news source featuring the latest discoveries in science, engineering, the environment, health, and more from North America's leading research universities.
The WDL makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures from around the world on one site, in a variety of ways. manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings. by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution. search. interactive geographic clusters, a timeline. The WDL was developed by a team at the U.S. Library of Congress, with contributions by partner institutions in many countries; the support of UNESCO.
"I decided that I would record as many conference talks as I could, in order to archive them for future generations. I now see that as a duty in conferences that I attend. Up until now, some 22 conferences comprising with some 400 presentations have been recorded by myself..."
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE (AP) Sept 16, 2009. Google Inc. is giving 2 million books in its digital library a chance to be reincarnated as paperbacks. The Harvard Book Store will be among the first already equipped an instant-publishing machine to have access to Google's digital library. For starters, Google is only allowing The Espresso Machine publish from the section of its digital library that consists of 2 million books no longer protected by copyright. Neller of On Demand Books is thrilled just to have the right to publish selections from Google's digital library of public domain books.
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N. Gray, T. Carozzi, und G. Woan. (2012)cite arxiv:1207.3923 Comment: Project final report, 45 pages: see http://purl.org/nxg/projects/mrd-gw for project details, and http://purl.org/nxg/projects/mrd-gw/report for other document versions.