Tag: Databases

  • OneZoom – The Tree of Life

    OneZoom – The Tree of Life

    Think about this for a moment.  Fractal-based mind-map that can contain and visualise all human knowledge.

    The OneZoom software uses fractals to condense the entire tree of life into a single, zoomable page. OneZoom® is so named because all the information is on a single page: all you have to do is zoom to reveal details.

    Not a bad start…

    “Big data” is a growing issue in Science and Industry. Modern computing has enabled large amounts of data to be captured and stored and has revolutionised many branches of science. These advances, however, lead to challenges, such as how to explore and visualise large data sets. The very first blue-skies idea that could have been identified with OneZoom was that of a mind map so vast that it could contain all human knowledge.

     

    www.onezoom.org

    ONeZoom
    [Source: OneZoom.org]

    You can now sponsor a leaf on the tree for yourself or as a unique gift. Your donations will help the OneZoom charity provide easy access to scientific knowledge about biodiversity and evolution. OneZoom is a registered charity in the UK. Their aim to provide easy access to scientific knowledge about biodiversity and evolution, and raise awareness about the variety of life on earth together with the need to conserve it.

  • All the news, always: Now What?

    All the news, always: Now What?

    GDELT is the largest, most comprehensive, and highest resolution open database of human society ever created.

    Yes, REALLY Big!

    GDELT is 100 percent free, with the entire dataset available for immediate download and a set of tools available to work with it.

    Creating a platform that monitors the world’s news media from nearly every corner of every country in print, broadcast, and web formats, in over 100 languages, every moment of every day and that stretches back to January 1, 1979 through present day, with daily updates, required an unprecedented array of technical and methodological innovations, partnerships, and whole new mindsets to bring this all together and make it a reality.

    GDELT Project
    [The GDELT Project]
    Creating a database of a quarter billion georeferenced records covering the entire world over 30 years, coupled with the massive networks that connect all of the people, organizations, locations, themes, and emotions underlying those events, required not only solving unparalleled challenges to create the database, but also a “reimagining” of how we interact and think about societal-scale data.

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  • VET docs available online

    A collection of vocational education and training (VET) related research and policy documents from various regions of the world are now available online on VOCED, including many of the older print-based copies.

    VOCED is the international research database with over 35,000 documents available.

    Link: New international documents available on VOCED.