datalibre.ca » 2007 » July

The good folks at freeourdata.org.uk (one of the major inspirations for this blog) met with the UK’s Minister of Information, Michael Wills. The whole interview is interesting, of course, but j...

https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/07/27/freeourdatacouk-meets-the-minister/

I met with Wendy Watkins at the Carleton University Data Library Carleton University Data Library yesterday. She is one of the founders and current co-chair of DLI and CAPDU (Canadian Association...

https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/07/25/new-social-science-infrastructure-for-ontario-libraries/

More interesting stuff from Jon Udell, this time taking some climate data for his area, using the ManyEyes platform and trying to see what has been happening in New Hampshire in the last century....

https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/07/23/udell-on-climate/

The Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) releases all kinds of data related to sales.  It is also an organization that has quite a bit of power with the Canadian Government. Michael ...

https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/07/19/deconstructing-cria-numbers/

Quality Repositories, is a website that comes out of a stats (?) course at University of Maryland. It aims to evaluate the usefulness and availability of various sources of public data, from US G...

https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/07/18/quality-repositories/

One of the great data myths is that cost recovery policies are synonymous with higher data quality. Often the myth making stems from effective communications from nations with heavy cost recovery...

https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/07/17/cost-recovery-policies-are-not-synonymous-with-data-quality/

Boris leaves me excellent links from time to time in my del.icio.us account! I usually find them when i am in those in-between times, usually idling between jobs, that’s when i recall to go ove...

https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/07/15/making-data-tangible-and-accessible/

What is the cost to taxpayers of public institutions purchasing public data? As citizens we do not like to pay for the same thing many times. So here is a real scenario and an estimated best gues...

https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/07/13/fun-with-taxpayer-dollars-purchasing-census-data-many-times/

Says Jesse Robins: The Istanbul Declaration (see: pdf) signed at the calls for governments to make their statistical data freely available online as a “public good.” The declaration also cal...

https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/07/12/oecd-world-forum-data/

Looks like some of us are using less pesticides, purchasing a few more energy efficient and water conservation devices, composting only very slightly more than before, and it seems we dunno what ...

https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/07/12/canadians-growing-a-little-greener-statscan-survey-suggests/