(11 September 2015) Belinda Weaver writes on the many benefits of open data. Including: Open data makes things more efficient; Open data helps join things up; Open data democratises access; Open data enables new businesses; and Open data saves lives. The Australian Open Access Support Group has the story.
(8 September 2015, Los Angeles, CA) SAGE has released a collection of more than 4,000 statistical data series for students and researchers working on business plan projects and market research assignments. Titled SAGE Business Stats, it offers historic, current, and projected demographic and industry data points down to the zip-code level. SAGE Business Stats is…
(26 August 2015) Antonio Acuna, Head of Data.gov.uk; Michael Canares, Regional Research Manager, Open Data Lab Jakarta; Tricia Yeoh, Chief Operating Officer, Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS), discuss open data on BFM 89.9, Malaysia’s business radio station. Listen to the podcast.
(19 August 2015) DataCite has launched a new blog designed to extend DataCite’s conversation to the broader community. The blog provides a venue for DataCite to share ideas, discuss technical details, gather feedback and foster engagement. Martin Fenner, DataCite’s Technical Director, will be the primary contributor to the blog. The blog will connect to datacite.org and posts will be integrated via…
(17 August 2015) Research Councils UK (RCUK), on behalf of the UK Open Research Data Forum, has today (17 August 2015) published a draft Concordat on Open Research Data, which sets out expectations of good practice in publishing research data openly. The Concordat aims to help ensure that research data gathered and generated by members…
Business intelligence and big data analysis is seen as a big opportunity, but the scope too for information companies is to scale content creation efficiently. (13 August 2015, Burlingame, CA and London, UK) Outsell, Inc., the world’s only research and advisory firm focused on media, information, and technology, today announced publication of a new CEO…
(13 August 2015) figshare has launched its next generation research data management platform, Figshare for Institutions, developed to address the specific needs of academic institutions to store research data securely. The pioneering platform has piloted at institutions in the U.K., Australasia, and mainland Europe, and supports their needs for better storage, preservation, accessibility and publication…
(13 July 2015) Today Jisc welcomes a new policy briefing from innovation charity Nesta and Universities UK (UUK), which is designed to develop data analytics skills and improve the supply of analytical talent to support the UK economy. Drawing from two research reports – ‘Skills of the Datavores: Talent and the data revolution’ from Nesta, and…
(3 July 2015) ‘Enabling Complex Analysis of Large Scale Digital Collections’, a project funded by the Jisc Research Data Spring, empowers researchers to turn their research questions into computational queries and gathers social and technical requirements for infrastructures and services that allow computational exploration of big humanities data. Melissa Terras, Professor of Digital Humanities at…
(30 June 2015, Hoboken, NJ) John Wiley & Sons, Inc. today announced their partnership with London- based data repository organization, Figshare. To support authors who wish to openly share their data, Wiley have embarked on this partnership with Figshare to integrate data sharing within existing journal workflows and article publication. The new data sharing service…
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