Presented at CASRAI 2013: Reconnect Big Data.
Appreciation to Amber Leahey, the metadata librarian at Scholars Portal, whose 2012 iASSIST slides were very useful in putting this together.
LIBER, Ligue Européenne des Bibliothèques de Recherche, launched its new strategy 2018-2022 in November 2017. This presentation gives an overview about LIBER's vision, strategic directions, steering committee and working groups - existing and to be created in the years to come.
What I wish I’d known at the start! What I wish I’d known at the start! Lessons learned the hard way when setting up RDM services;
Stephen Grace, London South Bank University, Sarah Jones, DCC; Research Data Network
The presenters will talk about their journey from a traditional library catalogue (Voyager) to an open source system (Koha). They will focus on how they ensured that the new system is clear and accessible – a key requirement as an arts institution with a high number of dyslexic students. They will highlight the opportunities and challenges of an open source system and report on where they stand seven months after implementation, including feedback from students who have been using the new system.
LIBER, Ligue Européenne des Bibliothèques de Recherche, launched its new strategy 2018-2022 in November 2017. This presentation gives an overview about LIBER's vision, strategic directions, steering committee and working groups - existing and to be created in the years to come.
What I wish I’d known at the start! What I wish I’d known at the start! Lessons learned the hard way when setting up RDM services;
Stephen Grace, London South Bank University, Sarah Jones, DCC; Research Data Network
The presenters will talk about their journey from a traditional library catalogue (Voyager) to an open source system (Koha). They will focus on how they ensured that the new system is clear and accessible – a key requirement as an arts institution with a high number of dyslexic students. They will highlight the opportunities and challenges of an open source system and report on where they stand seven months after implementation, including feedback from students who have been using the new system.
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.
A presentation by Rachel Bruce, director open science and research lifecycle, Jisc and Matthew Spitzer, community manager, Centre for Open Science (COS).
Libraries are increasingly being called upon to extend
access to their online resources to users beyond their
core constituencies. Every institution has its own unique
arrangements, but they all raise similar questions for the
library: are these users included under our existing licences
or are separate ones needed? Will we have to pay more, and
if so, how much? Where can I go for advice? Learn about the
guidelines Jisc Collections has developed, and hear from
two librarians who have successfully implemented their own
solutions: Anna Franca on KCL’s work with an NHS Trust
and Ruth Dale on Nottingham’s overseas campuses.
Incentives for sharing research data – Veerle Van den Eynden, UK Data Service
Incentives to innovate – Joe Marshall, NCUB
Incentives in university collaboration - Tim Lance, NYSERNET
Giving researchers credit for their data – Neil Jefferies, The Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services (BDLSS)
Jisc and CNI conference, 6 July 2016
The case for learning analytics - Jisc Digifest 2016Jisc
Jisc is developing a learning analytics service in consultation with universities and colleges, suppliers and key stakeholders. The rationale is to provide universities and colleges with a basic solution that can form the basis of a complete solution to all you learning analytics requirements.
We believe Jisc are uniquely placed to provide a national infrastructure that can support the future development of learning analytics within the UK.
This session will explore the case for learning analytics, does it work and do you need it?
Sitations are the way that researchers communicate how
their work builds on and relates to the work of others and
they can be used to trace how a discovery spreads and is
used by researchers in different disciplines and countries.
Creating a truly comprehensive map of scholarship,
however, relies on having a curated machine-readable
database of citation information, where the provenance of
every citation is clear and reusable. The Initiative for Open
Citations (I4OC), a campaign launched on 6 April 2017,
sought to make publisher members of Crossref aware that
they could open up the citation metadata they already give
to Crossref simply by asking them. With the support of
major publishers and the endorsement of funders and other
organisations, more than 50% of citation data in Crossref
is now freely available, up from less than 1% before the
campaign. This provides the foundation of a well-structured,
open database of literally millions of datapoints that anyone
can query, mine, consume and explore. The presenter will
discuss the aims of the campaign, the new innovative
services that are already using the data, what more still
needs to be done and how you can support the initiative.
Catriona J MacCallum, Hindawi
Presentation at The Future World Heritage Digital Mathematics Library: Plans and Prospects, Washington DC, JUne 1-3, 2012. See:
http://ada00.math.uni-bielefeld.de/mediawiki-1.18.1/index.php/Anders_W%C3%A4ndahl:Talk
This was a presentation delivered at the 10th Northumbria Conference in York during July 2013. It provides a background, and introduction and overview to the Library Analytics and Metrics Project (LAMP) work that Jisc, Mimas (University of Manchester) and University of Huddersfield are collaborating on.
The project will develop a prototype shared library analytics service for UK universities and colleges.
How to get your institution ready for open access monographs - Ellen Collins ...Jisc
How ready is your institution for Open Access (OA) monographs? Although excluded from REF2020, there is no doubt that they will be included in the future, indeed you can already publish an OA monograph now. This session will first provide a brief introduction to the OA monograph landscape – what is happening, who is doing what, what models are being explored. It will then look at how institutions are responding to landscape and based on evidence collected through institutional case studies as part of the OAPEN-UK project, present tips for getting your institution ready for OA monographs.
The OAPEN-UK project, funded by AHRC and Jisc is exploring open access monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences. The institutional case studies included in-depth interviews with Pro-Vice Chancellors of Research, Directors of Research, Grant administrators, Finance Directors, Librarians and Repository Staff and researchers themselves. The session will be presented by Ellen Collins, Research Officer for OAPEN-UK.
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.
A presentation by Rachel Bruce, director open science and research lifecycle, Jisc and Matthew Spitzer, community manager, Centre for Open Science (COS).
Libraries are increasingly being called upon to extend
access to their online resources to users beyond their
core constituencies. Every institution has its own unique
arrangements, but they all raise similar questions for the
library: are these users included under our existing licences
or are separate ones needed? Will we have to pay more, and
if so, how much? Where can I go for advice? Learn about the
guidelines Jisc Collections has developed, and hear from
two librarians who have successfully implemented their own
solutions: Anna Franca on KCL’s work with an NHS Trust
and Ruth Dale on Nottingham’s overseas campuses.
Incentives for sharing research data – Veerle Van den Eynden, UK Data Service
Incentives to innovate – Joe Marshall, NCUB
Incentives in university collaboration - Tim Lance, NYSERNET
Giving researchers credit for their data – Neil Jefferies, The Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services (BDLSS)
Jisc and CNI conference, 6 July 2016
The case for learning analytics - Jisc Digifest 2016Jisc
Jisc is developing a learning analytics service in consultation with universities and colleges, suppliers and key stakeholders. The rationale is to provide universities and colleges with a basic solution that can form the basis of a complete solution to all you learning analytics requirements.
We believe Jisc are uniquely placed to provide a national infrastructure that can support the future development of learning analytics within the UK.
This session will explore the case for learning analytics, does it work and do you need it?
Sitations are the way that researchers communicate how
their work builds on and relates to the work of others and
they can be used to trace how a discovery spreads and is
used by researchers in different disciplines and countries.
Creating a truly comprehensive map of scholarship,
however, relies on having a curated machine-readable
database of citation information, where the provenance of
every citation is clear and reusable. The Initiative for Open
Citations (I4OC), a campaign launched on 6 April 2017,
sought to make publisher members of Crossref aware that
they could open up the citation metadata they already give
to Crossref simply by asking them. With the support of
major publishers and the endorsement of funders and other
organisations, more than 50% of citation data in Crossref
is now freely available, up from less than 1% before the
campaign. This provides the foundation of a well-structured,
open database of literally millions of datapoints that anyone
can query, mine, consume and explore. The presenter will
discuss the aims of the campaign, the new innovative
services that are already using the data, what more still
needs to be done and how you can support the initiative.
Catriona J MacCallum, Hindawi
Presentation at The Future World Heritage Digital Mathematics Library: Plans and Prospects, Washington DC, JUne 1-3, 2012. See:
http://ada00.math.uni-bielefeld.de/mediawiki-1.18.1/index.php/Anders_W%C3%A4ndahl:Talk
This was a presentation delivered at the 10th Northumbria Conference in York during July 2013. It provides a background, and introduction and overview to the Library Analytics and Metrics Project (LAMP) work that Jisc, Mimas (University of Manchester) and University of Huddersfield are collaborating on.
The project will develop a prototype shared library analytics service for UK universities and colleges.
How to get your institution ready for open access monographs - Ellen Collins ...Jisc
How ready is your institution for Open Access (OA) monographs? Although excluded from REF2020, there is no doubt that they will be included in the future, indeed you can already publish an OA monograph now. This session will first provide a brief introduction to the OA monograph landscape – what is happening, who is doing what, what models are being explored. It will then look at how institutions are responding to landscape and based on evidence collected through institutional case studies as part of the OAPEN-UK project, present tips for getting your institution ready for OA monographs.
The OAPEN-UK project, funded by AHRC and Jisc is exploring open access monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences. The institutional case studies included in-depth interviews with Pro-Vice Chancellors of Research, Directors of Research, Grant administrators, Finance Directors, Librarians and Repository Staff and researchers themselves. The session will be presented by Ellen Collins, Research Officer for OAPEN-UK.
Presentation of the 4-yeal long work on developing Go-Lab teachers communities. More than 6000 teachers from 1000 EU schools were involved. Here is the impact our work in the framework of this project.
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2. Приказом ФНС России от 14.10.2015 № ММВ-7-11/450@ утверждена новая форма расчета сумм НДФЛ (форма 6-НДФЛ), порядок ее заполнения и представления. Сам приказ вступает в силу с 16.11.2015г.
Начиная с 2016г. налоговые агенты обязаны будут ежеквартально представлять сведения о доходах (форма 6-НДФЛ), в отношении которых ими был исчислен и удержан НДФЛ (соответствующие поправки в НК РФ предусмотрены в Федеральном законе от 02.05.2015 № 113-ФЗ).
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За непредставление налоговым агентом в установленный срок расчета сумм налога на доходы физических лиц, исчисленных и удержанных налоговым агентом, в налоговый орган по месту учета п. 1.2. ст. 126 НК РФ предусмотрено взыскание штрафа с налогового агента в размере 1 000 рублей за каждый полный или неполный месяц со дня, установленного для его представления.
В случае непредставления формы 6-НДФЛ налоговый орган вправе принять решение о приостановлении операций по счетам в банке (п. 3.2 ст. 76 НК РФ).
За представление документов, содержащих недостоверные сведения, с 2016г. будет взыскиваться штраф в размере 500 рублей за каждый представленный документ, содержащий недостовер
Connecting in the Facebook Age: Development and Validation of a New Measure o...Jessica Vitak
Presentation of ICA paper, "Connecting in the Facebook Age: Development and Validation of a New Measure of Relationship Maintenance." This presentation includes details from additional validity and reliability testing using confirmatory factor analysis.
Link to paper: http://vitak.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/ica2014-relmaintenance-toshare.pdf
A call to librarians to use their library powers in the community beyond the walls of their institutions as the open data folks need their knowledge!
Title:
Open Sesame: Open Data, Data Liberation and New Opportunities for Libraries
Abstract:
Cities and data producers are quickly embracing Open Data, albeit unevenly. The Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) has been a pioneer in broadening access to data for nearly two decades. This session will examine the relevance of Data Liberation in terms of Open Data and explore how librarians can step up to the plate to make Open Data/Open Government as successful as DLI.
Speakers:
- Wendy Watkins, Data Librarian, Carleton University
- Ernie Boyko, Adjunct Data Librarian, Carleton University
- Tracey P. Lauriault, Post Doctoral Fellow, Carleton University (tlauriau@gmail.com)
- Margaret Haines, University Librarian, Carleton University
Presentation by Stuart Lewis of the University of Edinburgh. It was presented at the LSHTM Research Data Services workshop on June 30th 2015, an event organised to mark the end of LSHTM's Wellcome Trust funded RDM project.
A review of ICPSR's 50 year history as a research data archive and an overview of the data services it currently offers as well as data services in development
PIDs, Data and Software: How Libraries Can Support Researchers in an Evolving...Sarah Anna Stewart
Presentation given at the M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries, CPD25 Event on 'The Role of the Library in Supporting Research'. Provides an introduction to data, software and PIDs and a brief look at how libraries can enable researchers to gain impact and credit for their research data and software.
The Sixty Minute (Data Dashboard) Makeover!Marieke Guy
Workshop run at the Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) 2017 at Univeristy of kent, Tuesday 11th July 2017. Facilitated with Jon Rathmill, University of kent
Capture All the URLs: First Steps in Web ArchivingKristen Yarmey
Presentation for a Society of American Archivists Web Archiving Roundtable professional development webinar.
Session Description:
Two co-authors, Alexis Antracoli, Records Management Archivist at Drexel University and Kristen Yarmey, Associate Professor and Digital Services Librarian at the University of
Scranton will share their experiences and engage in discussion about their web archiving projects. The work they will be talking about is covered in “Capture All the URLs: First Steps in Web Archiving” (http://palrap.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/palrap/article/view/67).
Kristen will discuss her and her colleagues’ first steps in web archiving at the University of Scranton, including making the case to campus stakeholders, finding funding, choosing Archive-It as well as selecting content and seeds to capture. Alexis will talk about establishing policies and implementing QA procedures. Both Alexis and Kristen will provide
insights on stumbling blocks, lessons learned, and future plans. Plenty of time will be allotted for questions and discussion.
Presentation given by Sarah Jones and Joy Davidson to a group of South African librarians at a webinar organised by LIASA HELIG. http://www.liasa.org.za/node/977
Charleston Conference 2017 - What's Past is Still Messing With Our Workflows Jacqueline Whyte Appleby
Scholars Portal has been aggregating locally loaded ebooks for Ontario universities on an eBrary-backed platform since 2009— eons ago in the world of library technology! Over the last year, Scholars Portal Books has received a rewrite from the ground up, and this time the focus is on building a platform that anticipates the future of ebook access and usage. After extensive community consultation, we knew we wanted a front-end that was accessible beyond legal requirements, a back-end where metadata was harmonized using the BITS standard, and an admin module where local eresource staff could generate usage stats, MARCs, and KBART title lists on the fly. Finally, we needed all of it set up to move through a Trustworthy Digital Repository.
No surprise, there have been many challenges along the way, and none of them are unique to consortia: How do we handle corrections to old PDFs? What do we do with six ISBNs? More broadly, how do we support local scholarship at scale, and how can we make space for the open educational resources increasingly being integrated into higher education?
This session will look at the complex ebook landscape through a consortial lense — from licensing and entitlements management, to wrangling a dozen XML schemas and implementing ever-changing DRM restrictions, towards the ultimate goal of preserving Ontario university’s books content for the long term
How to talk to your users about why eBooks are terrible.
In 2013, the OCUL consortium purchased scholarly eBook collections with much stricter DRM. This session will explore the implications of this new model on technological support and infrastructure within the consortium, and will examine usage data and user feedback to illustrate how library users are accessing (or not accessing) borrowable eBooks.
Presented at ER&L 2014
Austin, Texas
Jacqueline Whyte Appleby & Meghan Ecclestone
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
Normal Labour/ Stages of Labour/ Mechanism of LabourWasim Ak
Normal labor is also termed spontaneous labor, defined as the natural physiological process through which the fetus, placenta, and membranes are expelled from the uterus through the birth canal at term (37 to 42 weeks
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
How to Build a Module in Odoo 17 Using the Scaffold MethodCeline George
Odoo provides an option for creating a module by using a single line command. By using this command the user can make a whole structure of a module. It is very easy for a beginner to make a module. There is no need to make each file manually. This slide will show how to create a module using the scaffold method.
How to Add Chatter in the odoo 17 ERP ModuleCeline George
In Odoo, the chatter is like a chat tool that helps you work together on records. You can leave notes and track things, making it easier to talk with your team and partners. Inside chatter, all communication history, activity, and changes will be displayed.
Delivering Micro-Credentials in Technical and Vocational Education and TrainingAG2 Design
Explore how micro-credentials are transforming Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) with this comprehensive slide deck. Discover what micro-credentials are, their importance in TVET, the advantages they offer, and the insights from industry experts. Additionally, learn about the top software applications available for creating and managing micro-credentials. This presentation also includes valuable resources and a discussion on the future of these specialised certifications.
For more detailed information on delivering micro-credentials in TVET, visit this https://tvettrainer.com/delivering-micro-credentials-in-tvet/
it describes the bony anatomy including the femoral head , acetabulum, labrum . also discusses the capsule , ligaments . muscle that act on the hip joint and the range of motion are outlined. factors affecting hip joint stability and weight transmission through the joint are summarized.
Thinking of getting a dog? Be aware that breeds like Pit Bulls, Rottweilers, and German Shepherds can be loyal and dangerous. Proper training and socialization are crucial to preventing aggressive behaviors. Ensure safety by understanding their needs and always supervising interactions. Stay safe, and enjoy your furry friends!
3. <odesi>
• An online data research tool developed between
2007 and 2009
• Jointly funded by the Ontario Council of
University Libraries (OCUL) and OntarioBuys
• Developed to serve the Ontario university
community, now expanding beyond the province
4. <odesi> in context
is managed by
which is a service of
which is governed by
21 Ontario
university
libraries
5. <odesi> goals
• Facilitate discovery, downloading, and analysis of
data products
• Create a tool that is useful to both experienced
and new researchers
6. <odesi>: where does the content
come from?
Confidential Microdata
available through the RDC
Statistics Canada
(data producers)
Public Use Microdata Files
(PUMFs)
available through the DLI
Other public products
available through
statcan.gc.ca
7. <odesi> : where does the content
come from?
ICPSR metadata
Public Use Microdata Files
(PUMFs)
Available through the DLI
Canadian Gallup Polls data
Other public products
Available through
statcan.gc.ca
Canadian Opinion Research
Archive (CORA) data
10. <odesi> in use
Broad questions:
•
“I want to write a paper on women in the workforce…”
11. <odesi> in use
Broad questions:
•
“I’m interested in exploring on-reserve housing issues.”
12. <odesi> in use
Testing a hypothesis
•
“How many Ontarians smoke today compared with 10 years ago?”
13. <odesi> in use
Testing a hypothesis
•
“How many Ontarians smoke today compared with 50 years ago?”
14. <odesi> highlights
• Metadata is bilingual and DDI-compliant
• Don’t need statistical software to run many
analyses
• Surveys also include all supplementary material
• New surveys added daily
15. MarkIt! program
• OCUL members (usually data librarians) apply for
funding
• Funds pay for student employees, who are
trained to mark up surveys using DDI 2 standards
• 2013-2014: Carleton, U of Ottawa, Queen’s and
McMaster are participating, as well as Scholars
Portal
17. MarkIt! program best practices
• Be flexible; always be ready to shift priorities
• Establish best practices and adhere to them
• Make QA and editing each others’ work the
norm (35% of datasets are marked up at more
than one school)
Good afternoon, my name is Jacqueline Whyte Appleby and I’m the Client Services Librarian, as well as the interim data and geospatial librarian, which means I both manage Odesi and work in teaching and research support, helping libraries and end users with Odesi implementation and useTalk about Odesi – a platform for finding and working with Data that is used by Ontario universitiesSpecial thanks to Amber Leahey whose presentation at iASSIST 2013 informed some of this presentation
Odesi is a too developed between 2007 and 2009….and I also want to acknowledge Jeff Moon, who was with this project from the beginning. Odesi was jointly funded by OCUL, which is the parent organization of Scholars Portal, and Ontario Buys, which is a government program we’ve had a lot of success withOdesi was developed specifically to support the Ontario university community, but we’ve now expanded beyond Ontario and there are schools in other provinces using the service.
So, just so the structure is clear here….Odesi is managed, on a day-to-day basis by Scholars Portal, by myself, by our programmers and metadata staffScholars Portal is a service of the Ontario Council of University Libraries, which is governed by the 21 Ontario university libraries.So staff at all of these universities work to make Scholars Portal services what they are, and it’s really the data librarians at many of these schools that pushed Odesi to realization, and who continue to build it
Odesi was created with the goal of facilitating discovery, downloading, and analysis of a range of data products To do this, it was important that Odesi was useful to both experienced and new researchers – so it needed to be sophisticated enough to allow for advanced searching and analysis, but it also needed to be friendly enough that an undergraduate with a question could play around with it and get something useful.
As I’ve alluded to, Odesi has a lot of content, and much of it comes from Statistics CanadaAs Jeff discussed, the RDC needs to be visited in person, it’s for people with very specific research needsAs Sylvie discussed, PUMFs are available through the DLI,This is data that you don’t need to go to the RDC to get, but it’s not available to everyone – you need to have signed the DLI license So we include many of the PUMFs, as well as a lot of supporting and related documentation that StatsCan publishes – that includes the codebooks, sometimes copies of the actual surveys themselves, reports based on the survey results. So we have about 3000 survey from this source
We also have data from other sources.The ICPSR – the interuniversity consortium for political and social research – houses a lot of excellent data, and most of our universities actually subscribe to it separately. So we’ve set up a script to run monthly and pull all metadata for ICPSR so that these surveys are also searchable in Odesi – the students will then be directed to the ICPSR website. We also host a large number of Canadian Gallup polls and the Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA) data – this is based at Queen’s – and these are really rich sources of social data, for students wondering what people thought about smoking, or the middle east, or the prime minister over time…they go back to the 70s (confirm).
Odesi has two pieces, and the first piece is the catalogue. You can search or browse for data in the catalogue, and you can do so at the series (Census of Canada) or study level (Census of Canada 2006), and using keywords. What’s really great about Odesi is that you can also search at the variable level – you can find particular questions and answers to questionsThe Odesi catalogue was built in-house using MarkLogic (about)
Once you’ve found data you want to explore, you’ll move into the repository. The repository is run on a platform called Nesstar (about) and it has this front end for users, and it also has a publisher’s backend, which is how we get all of this great metadata in there. It’s DDI compliantYou’re looking at a question fro the 2006 census on field of study…and you can see there’s the literal question asked and the breakdown of responses. And this is available for every question in almost every survey we have in Odesi. Users can run a cross tabulation on any variables that interest them right in the interface, or they can download a whole data set, or just part of one, in a number of formats, including SPSS, SAS, Stata, and CSV In other words it’s very easy to say: give me a file with the responses to every question by women who are over 50 (so cases), or I want to see everyone’s response to the question of how much exercise they get, and which province they live in, so I can compare across provinces.
DDI – data documentation Have 3300 data sets, many more recordsICPSR are pulled in as a script Stats Can is adding new data all the time – how to stay on top of that?
Metadata markup is used in our ML database to allow for searching at granular levels, for example if you wanted to know how many surveys had variables that asked about smoking you can search for this using odesi. The markup provided by the individuals doing the markup assist in performing better and more accurate searching.
-students grab the file off the Stats Can FTP server -markup the variables, and study level metadata (i.e. weighting, abstract, sampling procedures etc.)-means we can get data sets up quite quickly
Dataverse – one time deposits of legacy data, but also studies in process, with geographically dispersed researchers contributing to marking up data.We may also be in a good position to develop some guidelines for researchers doing all of their own depositing, or for librarians working to support them.
Dataverse – one time deposits of legacy data, but also studies in process, with geographically dispersed researchers contributing to marking up data.We may also be in a good position to develop some guidelines for researchers doing all of their own depositing, or for librarians working to support them.
Dataverse – one time deposits of legacy data, but also studies in process, with geographically dispersed researchers contributing to marking up data.We may also be in a good position to develop some guidelines for researchers doing all of their own depositing, or for librarians working to support them.