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http://sciencemeetsbusiness.com.au/connecting-with-the-community/

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DataQ: Q & A forum for all things data management

DataQ is live! DataQ is a collaborative platform and community aimed at addressing research data questions in academic libraries. Check out http://ResearchDataQ.org to find answers to questions about data management plans, DOIs, ARKs, repositories, and more!

DataQ is a living resource, so continue to submit your questions and our editorial team of experts will craft responses to share with the community.

 The DataQ project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services Sparks! Ignition Grant for Libraries SP-02-14-0020-14 awarded to the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries, the Greater Western Library Alliance, and the Great Plains Network.

 

Open Inform - Information about open education and openness

Open Inform will support a community in generating conversation and information about open education, and more broadly openness. This is an opportunity to promote engagement in a range of openness topics such as OSS, OpenEd, OER, Open Governance, Open Access research and data,Open Textbooks, Open Standards, Open Content, Licensing and so on. The goal … to build capacity and provide information about Open Education.

See: http://open-inform.info

Q&A: Designing a Tool to Track Floods That Everyone Will Love

http://blogs.wsj.com/indonesiarealtime/2014/12/03/qa-designing-a-tool-to-track-floods-that-everyone-will-love/ 

http://petajakarta.org/banjir/en/

Jakarta has a new tool to monitor and respond to flooding in the low-lying capital. Developed by researchers from the SMART Infrastructure Facility at Australia’s Wollongong University in collaboration with Twitter TWTR -0.19% and Jakarta’s Disaster Management Agency, the tool – known as PetaJakarta, or Jakarta Map – will draw on data used in tweets to pinpoint areas on a map impacted by flooding.

PetaJakarta was launched at City Hall by Gov. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama. Beforehand, The Wall Street Journal spoke to the two lead researchers on the project, Entienne Turpin and Tomas Holderness, about the value of Twitter data and how the tool was designed with the aim of everyone loving it. Edited excerpts.

WSJ: What’s the value of the information you can draw from the tweets?Mr. Turpin: It allows for navigation on the side of the citizens–avoiding areas, getting around the traffic – but then you also have the capacity for the government to see events faster, and then that allows for a faster deployment. The primary incidents of mortality in flooding happen in the first hour, so the faster the response the lower the mortality rate.

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