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.
This site is intended to help library web developers decide how to label key resources and services in such a way that most users can understand them well enough to make productive choices. It compiles data from usability studies evaluating terminology on library websites, and suggests test methods and best practices for reducing cognitive barriers caused by terminology.
Univerisity of Indiana Dept of Computer Science and School of Informatics. This site provides access to an online database containing government documents originally publishied on CDROM. There are two interfaces, a Database interface that enables browsing the entire collection and a Search interface that allows searching for specific documents using CQL queries. Through either interface it is possible to access the original CDROM contents exported as WebDAV. These WebDAV directories can be directly "mounted" on some operating systems (OS X, Linux).
A list of digital preservation cost-models: Costing Digital Preservation, Digital Preservation Costing Initiatives, Significant Digital Preservation Costing Papers, General Costing Information
The DCC has developed a suite of tools to help UK HEI researchers and research support staff to better understand their particular data management and curation needs, assess current activity and infrastructure, and to plan for improvement.
Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) DataFinder is a custom, easy-to-use tool developed to provide select demographic information as well as administrative data on programs that affect low-income people and families. Users can create and download custom tables that present a national picture, a state picture or a comparative look at states and communities. The DataFinder currently includes state and national data on: child care assistance spending and participation; Head Start and Early Head Start participation; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) expenditures; young child demographics; and poverty. The tool also provides community-level statistics on education, demographics and youth violence. CLASP will add more data to this evolving tool over time.
The Digital Preservation Network is being created by research-intensive universities to ensure long-term preservation of the complete digital scholarly record. DPN is an approach that replicates the complete scholarly record across nodes with diverse architectures, geographies and organizations, preventing a common point of failure DPN is a federation that builds upon the higher education community’s collection and preservation efforts DPN is a community that develops, shares and enhances preservation practices and technologies
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has published a report, "Intellectual Property on the Internet: A Survey of Issues," that addresses the far-reaching impact that digital technologies ? the Internet in particular ? have had on intellectual property (IP) and the international IP system. After a brief introduction describing general trends affecting the evolution of the Internet, the Survey addresses the evolving digital economy and the migration of intellectual property to the Internet, as well as the broader questions raised for intellectual property by the impact of information and communications technologies in the digital environment. The Survey focuses on recent developments in the traditional fields of copyright, trademarks and patents, as well as domain names, and progress in private international law and alternative dispute resolution. It also explores the particular concerns that face developing countries in e-development, and outlines the ways in which WI
Whether you are looking to decide if open source software is right for your library or need help finding what open source software package meets your needs, this site has the content and the community to help you with those decisions.