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USAID/Tanzania project: designing and collecting more accurate and reliable agricultural data

20/06/2013

USAID/Tanzania started in 2011 a partnership with the Tanzanian National Bureau of Statistics to strengthen agricultural statistics in the country. The project provided a $1.1 million grant to support conducting a Feed the Future baseline survey, and an additional grant to help finance a U.S. study tour for 11 statisticians to ...

DMix : a rig for the Data DJ

19/06/2013

Interesting article presented at CHI 2013: Changing Perspectives (Paris, France) in April 2013  by Paul Groth (VU University Amsterdam) and David A. Shamma (Yahoo! Research) with the title Spinning Data: Remixing Live Data Like a Music DJ. The conference paper presents a demonstration on data visualization as a performance through the use ...

Certify your Open Data

19/06/2013

The Open Data Institute (ODI) is today launching Open Data Certificates to help everyone find, understand and use open data that is being released.   The certificates have been created in response to business, government, and citizen needs to bring rigour to the publication, dissemination and usage of open data. Over ...

COAR Report on Sustainable Practices for Populating Repositories

18/06/2013

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has published the report, Incentives, Integration, and Mediation: Sustainable Practices for Populating Repositories with a variety of successful practices for populating repositories collected from around the world.  There is an active, thriving community of open access repositories worldwide and their visibility is rising ...

AGROVOC and TESEO met to discuss VocBench

18/06/2013

The management boards of AGROVOC and TESEO (TEsauro SEnato per l'Organizzazione dei documenti parlamentari) met in Rome last week to compare their experience with thesaurus management in a world of open electronic data. TESEO is a classification system maintained by the Italian Senate, to organize and retrieve legal data produced ...