Distributed Interoperable Metadata Registry
This good article takes on the issue of adopting a single metadata standard - Dublin Core, say, or IMS - for all digital objects. Such an approach is neither feasible nor desirable. What the authors propose is a type of interoperable metadata that allows for translations between types of metadata. More...
Top 3 tips for journalists wanting to get started in data journalism
Paul Bradshaw, Online Journalism Blog, 2017/12/27
These aren't just tips for journalists, they're tips for learners as well. Consider the first tip: "Don’t start by learning a technique for the sake of it – there are 101 different things you could learn – instead pick a problem that you face regularly, or a story idea that you have, and let that dictate the sorts of data journalism skills that you learn first." Doesn't that make so much sense as an approach to learning? It's certainly the approach I take. More...
Big Data in Education book launch
Ben Williamson, Code Acts in Education, 2017/12/14
I haven't read the book (and probably won't unless there's an open access version) but this assertion is interesting. More...
A New Citation Database Launches Today: Digital Science’s Dimensions
Roger C. Schonfeld, 2018/01/15
According to this article, the company Digital Science has launched "a new product that includes a citation database, a research analytics suite, and streamlined article discovery and access." Called Dmensions, it is intended as direct competition for Elsevier's Scopus, as well as analytics suites such as Elsevier’s SciVal, Clarivate’s InCites and Essential Science Indicators, atop their citation databases. More...
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Des risques accrus en raison du contexte des établissements… • Des carrières qui s’allongent, le vieillissement des salariés : 50 % ont plus de 45 ans et 18 % ont plus de 54 ans •...
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En application de la loi du 5 mars 2014, Le FONGECIF CORSICA s’engage à publier son catalogue de référence présentant les organismes de formation satisfaisant les exigences du décret Qualité du 30 juin 2015.
Afin de laisser à l’ensemble des acteurs le temps de s’organiser, les financeurs ont demandé et obtenu une période transitoire de 6 mois (jusqu’au 30 juin 2017) pendant laquelle les organismes de formation pourront être financés sans avoir été au préalable référencés.
Pour faciliter cette démarche tant du point de vue des financeurs que des prestataires de formation, une base de donnée unique a été constituée : le DATA DOCK. Plus...
The University of Tokyo has embarked on a quest to unearth Japan’s latent assets that could be worth more than ¥700 billion (US$6.4 billion) – big data held by the public sector, writes Shusuke Murai for The Japan Times. More...
Le partage des données est une priorité pour Pôle emploi. Pourquoi et comment elles sont collectées et utilisées. Retrouvez les informations essentielles dans notre infographie. Plus...
On 28 January the Council of Europe will celebrate the Data Protection Day, which marks the opening for signature in 1981 of the Council of Europe’s data protection convention, “Convention 108”. More...
By . The report makes a distinction between tenure stream professors (42% of all instructors), full-time non-tenure stream (6%) and part-time instructors (52%). This mix varies quite a bit across faculties. The proportions of FT to PT is highest in Engineering, and lowest in Law and Education. The composition of PT faculty also varies substantially across fields of study. More...
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