Canada

As I prepare to leave Guelph there are lots of things I will miss - but what I will maybe miss most is the Data Resource Centre and the creative people who work there.   If you link to the picasa album below you will see some awesome posters they have made to showcase services and bring people into the world of Data and GIS. The images on some of the posters are really powerful....

posters on picasa

The IASSIST Quarterly (IQ) volume 33 number 3 is now on the web:

http://iassistdata.org/iq/issue/33/3 more...

Kathleen Shearer of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries organized and chaired a panel on Open Data was held at the SPARC Digital Repositories meeting on November 8, 2010.  IASSIST members Gail Steinhart and Chuck Humphrey were two of the three members on this panel.  Kevin Ashley, Director of the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), was the third. more...

This is a truly fascinating set of events unfurling in Canada.   I thought I would add a bit (in too many words) for those of you who don't have the pleasure of Canadian media outlets. J more...

Industry Canada
Office of the Honourable Tony Clement
Minister of Industry
C.D. Howe Building
235 Queen Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0H5                                25 July 2010



Dear Minister Clement more...

More info on what the response has been in Canada is available here: http://capdu.wordpress.com/   Very interesting to watch this unfold if you are interested in data or interested in how these community responses  develop. 

It appears that the Federal Government has decided to no longer have the mandatory long form in the upcoming census (2011).  This is the list of detailed questions filled out by about 20% of households.  It will be replaced with another voluntary survey.   This has many potential implications, especially for those using the census 'longitudinally'.   It may have some positive spinoffs, since the replacement has a potentially larger sample size.   The disturbing part is that we are not more...