I personally think this Delicious failure is a bad thing--but it is useful at this particular transitional point because it reminds us that the cloud is not, intrinsically, our friend. The cloud is a highly commercialized entity that holds our data for as long as it finds it useful or profitable to do so and that means, like that country and western song, it can abandon us when our data no longer suits its own particular needs. and desires
You’ve never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called “developing world.”
. Thanks to Gabby for the link.
What is TED?
TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with the annual TED Conference in Long Beach, California, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK, TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Program, the new TEDx community program, this year’s TEDIndia Conference and the annual TED Prize (link)
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The new Australian National Data Service (ANDS) holds a number of workshops to promote the use of their numerous services. Members of VeRSI attended a workshop titled ‘Gumboots for the Data Deluge: defining and describing collections for the Australian Research Data Commons‘ on Friday.
The overarching aim of the workshop was to introduce those involved in data management, such as librarians, to the ‘Seeding the Commons‘ project. Through this ambitious national project, the ANDS plans to make all the research data produced by Australian researchers locatable and available for other researchers to use and cite. The ANDS works closely with various institutions around the country to harvest MetaData from their institutional repositories.
During the workshop we were given an overview of ANDS and its ambitions and also hands-on experience of entering a project into the Research Data Australia registry (or Metadata repository as ANDS doesn’t collect Data it collects Metadata!). The workshop covered the XML schema used to describe resources the RIF-CS which is based on an international draft standard, the ISO 2146 (Registry Services for Librarians and Related Organisations). See: http://globalregistries.org/rifcs.html The Research Data Australia collections registry supports a number of dynamic exchange and harvesting protocols so that researches in any part of the world can find data, compare and combine it, and perhaps even re-use it in their own work.
You can register your own data with the ANDS through their Register My Data service.