Try http://ckan.net/ and http://okfn.org/
Frank Norman
At 13:00 21/09/2011, Pickton Miggie wrote:
>I have recently been promoting the idea of open access to research data to colleagues here at Northampton. Reasonably enough, they are asking: ‘where can I get hold of these openly available datasets?’
>I’m aware of the obvious places like the UK Data Archive <http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/>http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/, the
>Economic and social data service <http://www.esds.ac.uk/>http://www.esds.ac.uk/, the NERC data centres (<http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/>http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/) and the National Archive <http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/>http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/, but I was wondering whether anyone on this list could suggest other places to look.
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>All suggestions gratefully received – I will of course summarise for the list.
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