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.
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.
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.
AcaWiki is like a "Wikipedia for academic research" designed to increase the impact of scholars, students, and bloggers by enabling them to share summaries and discuss academic papers online. AcaWiki turns research hidden in academic journals into something more dynamic and accessible.
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.
openpub - Project Hosting on Google Code. an application of the Atom Syndication Format intended to enable content creators and distributors to distribute digital books via a simple catalog format. The mechanism through which compatible Reading Systems access the distributed catalog has three components: eBook content, XML catalog metadata, and an HTTP transport for the catalog. OPDS-compatible Reading Systems must support IDPF EPUB, and may optionally support additional formats.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
a torrent tracker for public datasets. If you are scientist, research developer or just interested in it, you can find and download some dataset or, if you are owner of dataset, you can publish this dataset (become a torrent seeder) at this site.
This catalog supplies many sets of public data produced by City agencies. The data sets are available in a variety of machine-readable formats and are updated often.
a service to archive shortened Universal Resource Locators (URLs). This will enable redirect services to incorporate these shortened URLs when a member company ceases business activities.
The Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) is poised to be the foundation of new innovative environmental science through a distributed framework and sustainable cyberinfrastructure that meets the needs of science and society for open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data. Supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, DataONE will ensure preservation and access to multi-scale, multi-discipline, and multi-national science data. DataONE will transcend domain boundaries and make biological data available from the genome to the ecosystem; make environmental data available from atmospheric, ecological, hydrological, and oceanographic sources; provide secure and long-term preservation and access; and engage scientists, land-managers, policy makers, students, educators, and the public through logical access and intuitive visualizations.
Wikipedia reference desk works like a library reference desk. Users leave questions on the reference desk and Wikipedia volunteers work to help you find the information you need.
ResourceSync will research, develop, prototype, test, and deploy mechanisms for the large-scale synchronization of web resources. ResourceSync is a joint cooperation between NISO and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) team. builds on the OAI-PMH strategies. As we move from a web of documents to a web of data, synchronization becomes even more important: decisions made based on unsynchronized or incoherent scientific or economic data can have serious deleterious impact.
Terrier is a highly flexible, efficient, and effective open source search engine, readily deployable on large-scale collections of documents. Terrier implements state-of-the-art indexing and retrieval functionalities, and provides an ideal platform for the rapid development and evaluation of large-scale retrieval applications. Terrier is written in Java, and is developed at the Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow.
350.org is an international campaign dedicated to building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis--the solutions that science and justice demand.
Offering a comprehensive, up-to-date, and easy-to-use collection of more than 16,000 resources from the many disciplines related to child care and early education.
UpLib is a digital “filing cabinet”, designed for personal use. It allows you to save Web pages, email, photos, scanned bills, receipts, and other documents — even music — for later retrieval. It uses a highly visual interface, presenting saved information as thumbnails of the actual document instead of lines of text.
The Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) was established at the National Academies in 1972 at the recommendation of the President’s Commission on Federal Statistics. Its original mandate was to provide an independent and objective resource for evaluating and improving the work of the highly decentralized U.S. federal statistical system. While it continues to fulfill this mandate, the work of CNSTAT has expanded to include undertaking studies from a broad range of research and program agencies of the federal government. The Committee’s mission is to improve the statistical methods and information on which public policy decisions are based. It works to improve the data collection and estimation methods for a wide range of federal statistical activities, to further the application of statistics to better implement and evaluate federal programs, and to improve statistical methods for application to public affairs and to social, economic, and other scientific research.
N. Gray, T. Carozzi, and 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.