[okfn-discuss] DataMarket latest: bringing (pretty) big data to campus

Sun Jun 30 06:45:39 UTC 2013

I am sure they are not free or Open. I think this is alerting us to the
problem of data supply to Universities becoming commoditised and
controlled.It is a serious problem. many universities would rather licence
in their own data (including theses) than produce it as Open output.

On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Gene Shackman <eval_gene at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Are these free, open, data? I couldn't really tell from the posting, but
> it looks like someone (the university?) will have to pay for this.
>
> On the other hand, there are tons of free data sets on the web, not the
> least of which are
>
> http://data.un.org
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> http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/informationGateway.php
>
> I list many others here
> http://gsociology.icaap.org/data.htm
>
> Gene
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> Gene Shackman, Ph.D.
> The Global Social Change Research Project
> http://gsociology.icaap.org
> Free Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research
> http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods
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>  *From:* Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org>
> *To:* OKF Discuss <okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org>
> *Sent:* Saturday, June 29, 2013 12:46 PM
> *Subject:* [okfn-discuss] Fwd: DataMarket latest: bringing (pretty) big
> data to campus
>
> Thought this might be of interest.
>
> Daniel
>
> Begin forwarded message:
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>  *From: *Edward Farmer <edward at datamarket.net>
>  *Subject: **DataMarket latest: bringing (pretty) big data to campus*
>  *Date: *28 June 2013 14:58:22 GMT+01:00
>  *To: Daniel Dietrich*
>
>
>  *DataMarket and ProQuest Announce Major New Global Data Portal*
> *Researchers, students and library users will be able to search, compare,
> visualize and share billions of key facts and figures about the world,
> their countries and communities*
>
>  REYKJAVIK, Iceland and BOSTON, Massachusetts, 28 June 2013 – DataMarket<http://www.datamarket.com/>
>  and ProQuest <http://www.proquest.com/> today announced the creation of
> ProQuest International DataSets, to be marketed by ProQuest to its
> thousands of college, university and library partners worldwide. It will be
> launched this fall and will be one of the largest collections of economic,
> demographic and social data in the world, accessible to millions of
> faculty, staff and students.
>
>  “Our goal is to give people one place where they can get the data they
> need to understand the world around them. We are thrilled to be bringing
> together our technology and data collections with those of ProQuest, which
> include US and international census and statistical abstracts and the
> Historical Newspapers archive, as well as unique resources from Oxford
> Economics <http://www.oxfordeconomics.com/>. This is only the start of a
> long-term partnership, and our shared ambition is to create a world-leading
> gateway to global data and information,” said Hjalmar Gislason, founder and
> CEO of DataMarket.
>
>  “Creating resources that can support in-depth data mining takes a unique
> skill set,” said Susan Bokern, ProQuest Vice-President, Information
> Solutions. “Matching the strengths of ProQuest’s team of statistical data
> experts with those of DataMarket and Oxford Economics is producing a
> particularly rich and expansive resource."
>
>  ProQuest International DataSets will bring complex and diverse data
> together from hundreds of sources in one place and one format, enabling
> data to be searched, compared, visualized and shared. The resource will
> combine the full content set and technology architecture from DataMarket
> along with content from both ProQuest and Oxford Economics’ renowned array
> of quantitative and qualitative research.  It will be fully interactive,
> allowing users to create their own charts and reports from diverse sources
> and also embed context and commentary with them. ProQuest International
> DataSets is the first product being launched under a seven-year agreement
> signed recently between DataMarket and ProQuest.
>
>  Contacts:
> Edward Farmer, communications director, edward at datamarket.com, +354 863
> 1923.
> Hjalmar Gislason, CEO, hg at datamarket.com, 617 803 0486
> *
> *
> *About DataMarket*
> DataMarket helps people find and understand data. We bring complex and
> diverse data together in one place and one format so it can be searched,
> compared, visualized and shared – between individuals, across groups and
> organizations, or with the world. DataMarket is licensed to enterprises and
> data publishers as a white-label SaaS solution and includes seamless access
> to our ever-expanding collection of facts and figures from leading global
> data providers. DataMarket is a private company with product development
> based in Reykjavik and its sales office in Boston, Massachusetts.
> www.datamarket.com.
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>  *About ProQuest *(www.proquest.com)
> ProQuest connects people with vetted, reliable information. Key to serious
> research, the company’s products are a gateway to the world’s knowledge
> including dissertations, governmental and cultural archives, news,
> historical collections and e-books. ProQuest technologies serve users
> across the critical points in research, helping them discover, access,
> share, create and manage information.
>
>  The company’s cloud-based technologies offer flexible solutions for
> librarians, students and researchers through the ProQuest®, Bowker®,
> Dialog®, ebrary®, EBL® and Serials Solutions®businesses – and notable
> research tools such as the Summon® discovery service, RefWorks® Flow,
> Pivot™ and Intota®, a new library services platform. The company is
> headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with offices around the world.
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