(24 November 2016) The ICSU World Data System (WDS) and the Data Seal of Approval (DSA) Board are pleased to announce the availability of their unified Requirements for Core Trustworthy Data Repository certification. A unified catalogue of requirements was developed through a DSA–WDS partnership Working Group within the Research Data Alliance (RDA). The group built…
(15 November 2016) Medical schools are setting the pace for wireless video technology applications in the classroom, hospital wards and operating theatres. And helping them to succeed is Binumi. Medical students at Nanyang Technological University’s Lee Kong Chian School Of Medicine are using Binumi in their workflow, capturing, editing, and archiving footage which once was…
On November 10 2016, the National Diet Library, Japan, made approximately 650 sound recordings of the Historical Recordings Collection (Rekion) available for streaming online. They include works composed by Kosaku Yamada, Kiyoshi Nobutoki and Gento Uehara. Their copyrights have expired this year. The full announcement is here.
This draft report was released on 3 November 2016. You are invited to examine the draft report and to make written submissions by Monday 12 December 2016. The final report is expected to be handed to the Australian Government in March 2017. Australia’s New Data Framework puts Consumers in Control The Productivity Commission is recommending…
(6 October 2016, Burlingame, CA and London, UK) From individualized medical treatment to targeted mobile ad buys, the burgeoning number of applications for machine driven data analytics solutions offer a revenue goldmine for the $1.5 trillion information industry, according to Outsell, Inc. Today, the research and advisory firm released its Information Industry Outlook 2017 report,…
(27 September 2016) cilip has collected some of the interesting, contentious and important library and information stories that were discussed around the world this September. They include data and the role of librarians; and copyright and hyperlinks. Click here to see all six with comments and links.
(9 September 2016, Heidelberg, Germany) EMBO and John Wiley and Sons, Inc. announced today the launch of the ‘SmartFigures Lab’, a prototype online publishing website with enhanced data presentation capabilities. The site results from the integration of SmartFigures, an open source application of the EMBO SourceData platform, with Wiley’s Content Enrichment Framework and research &…
(7 September 2016) figshare has announced a partnership with Royal Society to showcase the data from eleven of their publications. Aggregated under one URL rs.figshare.com, each journal will also have its own sub portal. These new portals will increase the discoverability of their data and give them a wider oversight of what is referenced in their journals. The Royal Society is a…
Public corpus of satellite imagery and training data will advance research in technology to automate mapping and image analysis (25 August 2016, Westminster, Colo) DigitalGlobe, Inc. the global leader in earth imagery and information about our changing planet, today announced the launch of SpaceNet, an online repository of satellite imagery and labeled training data that…
(5 August 2016) Do you have a raft of useful data you’re ready to open up for others to make use of, but don’t know where to start? Organisations like Arup and Thomson Reuters have discovered huge benefits in opening their data, but it can be a daunting task. ODI Associate Leigh Dodds has broken…
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