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Bookmarklet to convert open.canada.ca JSON to HTML
Somewhere along the line I subscribed to the JSON feed of the Govt. of Canada Open Data releases, so I get something that looks great in my Feedly list: But when I click through I get the JSON data instead of the actual HTML descriptive page with pretty separate download the CSV etc buttons. Too
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Thoughts on Canada’s Draft New Plan on Open Government
Last week the Government of Canada released the latest draft of the new plan on Open Government, and I thought it was pretty good reading! Here are some of the things I learned, or highlighted as particularly interesting: Canada was recently ranked 4th out of 92 countries by the World Wide Web Foundation’s Open Data Barometer which
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Trends and Innovations in Research Dissemination
This 17-page PDF was mentioned in the most recent CARL E-lert, but I can't find much else about it. I can tell you it contained links to several resources I hadn't been aware of. Here's the abstract: This document presents some of the major trends and innovations in the area of scholarly communication as of
Posted Under: Scholarship