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@HannsKK Cheers, didn't know AIIM ran a Ning network! Atm looking 4 resources on the mgmt of data throughout its lifecycle in #e20 environm.
SMartens83 (Stefan Martens) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:43:50 -0000
@HannsKK Cheers, didn't know AIIM ran a Ning network! Atm looking 4 resources on the mgmt of data throughout its lifecycle in #e20 environm.
http://en.openei.org/wiki/Main_Page Department of Energy is launching Open Energy Information - DOE resources and energy data for public.
hichamoreo (hicham oudghiri) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:34:14 -0000
http://en.openei.org/wiki/Main_Page Department of Energy is launching Open Energy Information - DOE resources and energy data for public.
ROLE » Supporting e-learning with language resources and semantic data http://bit.ly/6Ei5xu
soslab (SosLab) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:26:10 -0000
ROLE » Supporting e-learning with language resources and semantic data http://bit.ly/6Ei5xu
any nice resources on web2.0 "art", also data visualisation? #web20 reading information aesthetics but looking for more..
shisza (Magda Wust) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:01:08 -0000
any nice resources on web2.0 "art", also data visualisation? #web20 reading information aesthetics but looking for more..
@lucamarrocco #mysql tree example http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/hierarchical-data.html
desmax74 (Massimiliano Dessì) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:00:14 -0000
@lucamarrocco #mysql tree example http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/hierarchical-data.html
Good article that lists Open data resources on the web - http://bit.ly/UHbYK
pythonhacker (Anand B Pillai) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:39:22 -0000
Good article that lists Open data resources on the web - http://bit.ly/UHbYK

 

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Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research - Provides access to an extensive collection of downloadable data. While some data is only available to individuals from member institutions, an extensive collection of criminal justice data, election data, and data from the General Social Surveys is available to the public from this site.

ACLP Data Set - This is the data set compiled by Adam Przeworski, Michael Alverez et al. and used in their book Democracy and Development

American Association of Public Opinion Resources - Provides guides, standards, definitions, recommended and condemned practices for public policy survey data collection.

Conflict Processes Section - From the American Political Science Association. Officers, award winners, data sets, and archived newsletters.

Correlates of War (COW) Project - Ongoing effort at the University of Michigan to study and explore the conditions associated with the outbreak of war, as well as with the conditions surrounding militarized disputes. Site features a variety of data sets as well as history, bibliography, and links to other sources.

EUGene Program - EUGene serves as a data management tool for creating data sets for use in the quantitative analysis of international relations; with the country-year, directed-dyad-year, and directed-dispute-dyad-year as the unit of analysis.

European Decision Makers Survey - The Eurobarometer has been engaged in the field of public opinion measurement for over twenty years, surveying both the general public and special target groups as needed by the different services of the Commission.

European Public Opinion - Social Science data archives and eurobarometers

GESIS - GESIS is an infrastructural association which supplies fundamental social science services on a national and international level, both in terms of theory and practice. GESIS consists of the institutes IZ, ZA, ZUMA, and keeps a branch office in Berlin. It is an institution of Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (WGL). GESIS maintains multiple national as well as international co-operations.

International Relations Data Page - Site lists international and domestic resources for data sets. Data subjects range from confliict and cooperation to environmental topics.
Meta Description: [ The main page for a compilation of political science and social science data links. ]

Jane's IntelWeb - Jane's IntelWeb helps you monitor developments in terrorist and intelligence activity worldwide.
Meta Description: [ Combining intelligence from both Jane's Intelligence Watch Report and Jane's Terrorism Watch Report, this exclusive service allows you to simultaneously monitor global terrorism and global security trends. ]

Lijphart Election Archive - A research collection of district level election results and statistics for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries. Catalog and some online datasets, plus project history, reviews, publications, and links. Housed at the University of California, San Diego.

Militarized Interstate Disputes - This data set is version 1.1 of Katherine Barbieri's national and dyadic trade data, which covers the period 1870-1992.

Minorities at Risk - Independent, university-based research project that monitors and analyzes the status and conflicts of politically-active communal groups in countries with a population of at least 500,000. Selected materials available online, as well as publication information, personnel directory, and related links.

Online Intelligence Project - Extensive collection of information and internet links regarding intelligence affairs around the world.
Meta Description: [ The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict. ]

Penn World Tables 5.6 - Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS), University of Toronto. Economic Resources.

Political Handbook of the World Home Page - Political Handbook of the World is an annual reference book containing separate sections on every country in the world and more than 100 intergovernmental organizations, such as NATO, OPEC, and UN affiliates. Each edition completely updates political developments over the past year while retaining the extensive background information necessary for researchers to place current events in a comprehensive historical perspective.

Qualitative Data Archival Resource Centre - The Data Archive was set up in 1967 in order to retain the most significant machine-readable data from the research which it funds. Thus crucial data can be re-analysed by other researchers, and the money spent on research becomes not only an immediate outlay, but an investment for the future.
Meta Description: [ ESDS Qualidata provides access and support for social science qualitative datasets for research, teaching and learning. ]

Society for Political Methodology - Site of the Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association. Abstacts of conference reports and working papers, information about research and teaching, links to computing and analysis resources, and newsletter and journal archives.

404 Tucker's Data Resources - Listing of data web resources

UC-San Diego - Social science data online: conflict, aggression, violence and wars; study descriptions and numeric data.

404 UNHCR: Statistics - Description the status of refugee populations, government policies on refugees, and current UNHCR activities in different countries and continents. Includes yearbook with PDF extracts, reports and charts on asylum trends, and special reports.