WAIS Seminar: Research Discussion: Open Data at the Hampshire Hub

This is a research discussion about the Hampshire Hub - see http://protohub.net/. The aim is to find out more about the project, and discuss future collaboration and sharing of ideas. Mark Braggins (Hampshire Hub Partnership) will introduce the Hampshire Hub programme, setting out its main objectives, work done to-date, next steps including the Hampshire data store (which will use the PublishMyData linked data platform), and opportunities for University of Southampton to engage with the programme , including the forthcoming Hampshire Hackathons Bill Roberts (Swirrl) will give an overview of the PublishMyData platform, and how it will help deliver the objectives of the Hampshire Hub. He will detail some of the new functionality being added to the platform Steve Peters (DCLG Open Data Communities) will focus on developing a web of data that blends and combines local and national data sources around localities, and common topics/themes. This will include observations on the potential employing emerging new, big data sources to help deliver more effective, better targeted public services. Steve will illustrate this with practical examples of DCLG’s work to publish its own data in a SPARQL end-point, so that it can be used over the web alongside related 3rd party sources. He will share examples of some of the practical challenges, particularly around querying and re-using geographic LinkedData in a federated world of SPARQL end-point.

User-Centred Methods for Measuring the Value of Open Data

A project to identify metrics for assessing the quality of open data based on the needs of small voluntary sector organisations in the UK and India. For this project we assumed the purpose of open data metrics is to determine the value of a group of open datasets to a defined community of users. We adopted a much more user-centred approach than most open data research using small structured workshops to identify users’ key problems and then working from those problems to understand how open data can help address them and the key attributes of the data if it is to be successful. We then piloted different metrics that might be used to measure the presence of those attributes. The result was six metrics that we assessed for validity, reliability, discrimination, transferability and comparability. This user-centred approach to open data research highlighted some fundamental issues with expanding the use of open data from its enthusiast base.

The CELADE data bank. Data available and procedures to obtain tapes and tabulations

El presente documento incluye una lista de los micro-datos existentes en cintas magneticas en el Banco de Datos de CELADE a la vez que explica los procedimientos para la obtencion de los datos y tabulaciones estandarizadas disponibles en el Banco. Como parte del Programa de Informacion en Poblacion para America Latina (INFOPAL) la funcion del Banco es adquirir y hacer disponible para el procesamiento computarizado, micro-datos tales como las muestras de los censos de poblacion de 1960 y 1970 de los paises de la region, estudios comparativos de migracion interna e internacional, de fecundidad y aborto y otros estudios

Boletín del Banco de Datos, junio de 1982 = Bulletin of the Data Bank, June 1982

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Boletín del Banco de Datos, suplemento, enero 1984 = Bulletin of the Data Bank, supplement, January 1984

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Boletín del Banco de Datos, abril de 1986 = Bulletin of the Data Bank, April 1986

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Boletín del Banco de Datos, diciembre 1989 = Bulletin of the Data Bank, December 1989

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Propuesta para el establecimiento de un banco de datos estadísticos = Proposal for the establishment of a statistical data bank

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