http://www.maptube.org/ A great free resource for viewing and mashing up maps. Basically maps can be overlayed to compare data visually. For some good examples see maps relating to population, crime & poverty. Population ones feature census data. For instance see this mapping of population density in London: http://www.maptube.org/map.aspx?mapid=136
Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Search-the-Digital-Archives.aspx An open access archive that includes more than 200,000 pages, 300 reels of audio tape, 300 museum artifacts, 72 movie reels, and 1,500 photos. They include materials relating to his assassination, and Cuba Bay of Pigs incident. The latter includes documents and contemporary telephone recordings.
Reading the riots
The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/series/reading-the-riots and The LSE http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2011/09/riots.aspx in association with the Joseph Rowntree foundation are investigating the British summer riots of 2011. The Guardian website has a timeline, interviews and writings. It also includes a section on data relating to the riots and rioters.
Friendly Numberhood
http://www.numberhood.net/ Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion, a research consultancy from the Social Disadvantage Research Centre at the University of Oxford have created this new app offering local data on the economy, education, health, crime and other topics. The service has been launched as an iPhone app, with Android and Blackberry versions to follow. A free […]
World Wide Web Index
http://www.webfoundation.org/projects/the-web-index/ New project of the World Wide Web foundation supported by Google which aims to provide a measure of the size of the web and its impact on peoples worldwide. The first annual index will be launched in 2012. The website currently has information about the aims of the project.
Hacking the academy
http://www.digitalculture.org/hacking-the-academy/ Access the full text of a new book released by MPublishing, the publishing division of the University of Michigan Library. An interesting example of a book which was produced from crowd sourced content sent in over one week. It covers ways in which ‘the academy’ and university study can be positively transformed using new […]
Big Innovation Centre
http://www.biginnovationcentre.com/ Launched by the Work Foundation and Lancaster University in September 2011. Chair is Will Hutton. It aims to bring together researchers and the commercial world to create a centre for business orientated research. The website provides information about the aims of the Centre. It also offers free access to its research reports on how […]
The revolutions were tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions
http://www.danah.org/projects/IJOC-ArabSpring/ A recently article in the International Journal of Communications examines the production and dissemination of news on Twitter during the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions. The authors use these two events to discuss how Twitter plays a key role in amplifying and spreading information across the globe. This website provides information on the methodology […]
MAVISE
A database of TV companies and channels in the European Union and Candidate countries. http://mavise.obs.coe.int/ Information on over 29 national TV markets including the licensing authority, number of channels and main market players. For more statistical information on TV industry see also the main European Audiovisual observatory site http://www.obs.coe.int/
ecampaigning forum
http://www.ecampaigningforum.com/ An annual event where practitioners share advice and expertise on how to use social media in campaigning. The 2011 website http://ecflive.fairsay.com/ includes information and some presentations. Topics covered include practical case studies on campaigning from charities and lobby groups.
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