Category: Information Studies

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History Information Studies

Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland

African American Transatlantic Abolitionism. Here you will find information on formerly enslaved African Americans who made radical and politicized journeys to the British Isles during the c19th to educate British audiences about slavery, racism, and lynching. They spoke in large cities and small fishing villages across the length and breadth of the British Isles, published thousands of copies of their slave narratives and spoke to millions of people. The maps of their speaking locations are designed to be visual monuments of their courageous and inspiring activism, and how Britons walk past sites rich in Black activism on a daily basis.

You’ll find links to abolitionist biographies (with their own separate maps) and info on Frederick Douglass’ 3 journeys to Britain and Ireland. In the navigational bar, you’ll find three pages dedicated to mapping African American lecturing tours: one is entirely focused on Douglass, the second represents nearly 5,000 lectures from Douglass and 25 other African Americans, and the third shows a chronology of visits over time.

http://frederickdouglassinbritain.com/

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Computer Science Information Studies

Stanford Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis

CESTA is an internationally renowned digital humanities center based in Wallenberg Hall at Stanford University. We are a diverse community of faculty, students, researchers, and practitioners. Through collaboration with partners across campus, across the Americas, and across the world, our research investigates pressing questions about human history, experience and endeavor.

We explore places, global spaces, texts, textual artefacts, data visualization, digital curation, preservation and display, linked data and interoperability, and sustainability. As a scholarly community CESTA supports and encourages cutting-edge work across the humanities and the interpretative social sciences.

https://cesta.stanford.edu/projects-labs

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Computer Science Information Studies

Data.Gov.ie Ireland’s Open Data Portal

The Open Data listed in data.gov.ie is published by Government Departments and Public Bodies. Many datasets are individually published and updated by public organisations. Other datasets are harvested daily from existing, domain-specific data catalogues. Data.gov.ie currently harvests data from:

The Irish Spatial Data Exchange
Dublinked
Central Statistics Office’s StatCentral.ie
Ordnance Survey Ireland
Health Service Executive
Cork City
Galway City Council
Galway County Council
Roscommon County Council
Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government

https://data.gov.ie/pages/aboutdata-gov-ie

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Information Studies

The Digital Curation Centre

The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is a world-leading centre of expertise in digital information curation with a focus on building capacity, capability and skills for research data management.

The DCC provides expert advice and practical help on how to store, manage, protect and share digital research data. We provide a broad range of resources including online tools, guidance and training. We also provides consultancy services on issues such as policy development and data management planning.

Services are targeted primarily at the higher education community, both in the UK and internationally, but our resources are of benefit to the commercial sector too.

https://www.dcc.ac.uk/projects

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Information Studies

Central Statistics Office

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) is Ireland’s national statistical office and our purpose is to impartially collect, analyse and make available statistics about Ireland’s people, society and economy.

Specifically, our mandate under the Statistics Act 1993 is “”The collection, compilation, extraction and dissemination for statistical purposes of information relating to economic, social and general activities and conditions in the State.

At national level, CSO official statistics inform decision making across a range of areas including construction, health, welfare, the environment and the economy. At European level they provide an accurate picture of Ireland’s economic and social performance and enable comparisons between Ireland and other countries.

The CSO is also responsible for coordinating the official statistics of other public authorities.

https://www.cso.ie/en/

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Computer Science Information Studies

US Government’s Open Data – Data.Gov

The home of the U.S. Government’s open data

Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.

https://www.data.gov/about

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Information Studies Open Library

Digital Commons Network

The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

http://network.bepress.com/

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Computer Science Information Studies

EU Open Data Portal: Access to European Union Open Data

The European Union Open Data Portal (EU ODP) provides access to an expanding range of data from the European Union (EU) institutions and other EU bodies. You can use and reuse these data for commercial or non-commercial purposes. By providing easy access to data — free of charge — we aim to help you put them to innovative use and unlock their economic potential. The portal is also designed to make the EU institutions and other bodies more open and accountable.

The data concerned include:

geographic, geopolitical and financial data
statistics, election results
legal acts
data on crime, health, the environment, transport and scientific research.

All these data are freely available. They can be reused in databases, reports or projects. A variety of digital formats are available from the EU institutions and other EU bodies.

Generally speaking you can reuse data free of charge, provided that you acknowledge the source (see legal notice). A small number of data are subject to specific conditions on reuse, most of which have to do with protecting third-party intellectual property rights. You will find a link to these conditions on the relevant data pages.

https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/data

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Information Studies

CESSDA: Consorium of European Social Science Data Archives

The mission of CESSDA is to provide a full scale sustainable research infrastructure enabling the research community to conduct high-quality research in the social sciences contributing to the production of effective solutions to the major challenges facing society today and to facilitate teaching and learning in the social sciences. Member countries seek to increase the scientific excellence and efficacy of European research in the social sciences, as well as to expand easy access to data and metadata regardless of borders. They want to provide a research infrastructure for their researchers, and join forces among their (national) data service providers.

https://www.cessda.eu/

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Computer Science Information Studies

UK Data Archive

Home to the UK’s largest collection of social, economic and population data for over 50 years, we provide researchers with training, support and data access as lead partner of the UK Data Service.

https://www.data-archive.ac.uk/

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