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Data Repository of the Week - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Data Archive (ATSIDA)

atsida banner.JPGATSIDA captures and shares the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders' voices. The repository's vision is to bring together datasets, information and electronic resources of long term significance for research relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Data Repository of the Week: The World Oral Literature Project

wolp.jpgOne language dies every two weeks, according to Dr Mark Turin of the World Oral Literature Project.

Repository of the Week: BCO-DMO

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BCO-DMO - the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office - manages and serves oceanographic data and related documentation, and provides researchers and others with the tools and systems necessary to work with marine ecosystem data.

Increasing Impact: Total-Impact awarded $125k Sloan grant!

ti.jpgTotal-Impact has been awarded $125k from the Sloan Foundation to expand its facilities for measuring the impact of research artefacts.

Repository of the Week: Freebase - the database for data lovers

Freebase.jpgFreebase is an open Creative Commons licensed graph database. It is not a database of graphs, but rather, 'graph' refers to the structure of the database. Instead of using tables and keys as in traditional databases, Freebase defines its data structure as a set of nodes and links between nodes.

Data Repository of the Week: TARDIS

tardis.jpgTARDIS is a multi-institutional collaboration that facilitates the archiving and sharing of data and metadata pertaining to crystallography. TARDIS offers a free data packaging tool for organising and annotating data, and for creating localised repositories.

Data Repository of the Week - New Zealand World War I Data

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New Zealand WWI Linked Open Data uses data sourced from NZ's Nominal Embarkation Rolls - a series of documents listing the details of those departing for service overseas - to help answer questions about the social impact of WWI on New Zealand society.

Data Repository of the Week: the Guardian's data

datastore.jpg The Guardian has made all the data it has reported in the Data Blog available for download.