(18 June 2013) The Open Data Institute is today launching Open Data Certificates to help everyone find, understand and use open data that is being released. The new certificates are being announced by CEO Gavin Starks at a G8 Summit event: Open for Growth. The certificates have been created in response to business, government, and citizen…
(5 June 2013) Today the European Parliament formally adopted the updated EU rules on the re-use of public sector information, thereby completing the formal EU approval process. The Council already agreed to the new rules at the Telecoms Council last week. The agreement on the new text has been reached in only 16 months, showing…
That question was recently discussed at a workshop, Dealing With Data, organised by LIBER and OpenAIRE. The workshop included presentations and discussions from nearly 20 speakers. Key learning points from the session included: the existence of a perceived lack of confidence about dealing with data in research libraries; a need for libraries to consider working collaboratively with other…
World’s health researchers join together to share and use ‘big data’ (5 June 2013) More than 60 leading health care, research and disease advocacy organisations from across the world are joining together to form an international alliance dedicated to enabling secure sharing of genomic and clinical data. Each of these organisations has signed a ‘Letter…
(3 June 2013) Harvard recently joined DataCite, a not-for-profit organization that aims to establish easier access to research data on the internet, increase acceptance of research data as legitimate, citable contributions to the scholarly record and support data archiving that will permit results to be verified and repurposed for future study. Other members of DataCite…
(15 May 2013) DataConnect, managed by the University Library, University of Adelaide, is the University’s online system for capturing information about research data collections. This new video provides a short introduction. There’s also a guide.
Research Data Australia, the flagship service of the Australian National Data Service (ANDS), provides a comprehensive window into the Australian Research Data Commons. Research Data Australia is an internet-based discovery service designed to provide rich connections between data, projects, researchers and institutions, and promote visibility of Australian research data collections in search engines. ANDS is…
Data.One is a portal to facilitate the wider dissemination of Public Sector Information (PSI) for value-added re-use. All datasets are free-of-charge for commercial or non-commercial re-use. Data includes water quality, weather, population census, public transport and more. All data on this portal are freely downloadable and re-usable and some are in XML format for convenient…
(9 May 2013) President Obama signed an Executive Order directing historic steps to make government-held data more accessible to the public and to entrepreneurs and others as fuel for innovation and economic growth. The Executive Order declares that information is a valuable resource and strategic asset for the Nation. Under the terms of the Executive…
LIBER, its library members and the researchers they support are advocating for a more flexible copyright system that will allow text and data mining to be used to its full potential. That is why LIBER has created a factsheet on Text and Data Mining (TDM). Download it and learn more about how TDM can increase…
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