CPANDA, the Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive Search and download policy-relevant data on the arts and cultural policy in the U.S. from this archive at Princeton. CPANDA also includes a “searchable bibliographic database of selected monographs, serials, reports, papers, proceedings, articles and books (1965 to first quarter 2007) relevant to arts and…
International Data Resource Center (IDRC) New from ICPSR, this special archive “acts as a clearinghouse for international data housed at ICPSR.” The site makes it easier to find ICPSR data of interest to internationalists. Browse by subject, data series, or geography. Of special interest on this site is the Instructional Resources section, which links sample…
China Historical GIS CHGIS is a repository of historical and current spatial data about China. Data is available for download for free for academic uses. Registration is required. “Having downloaded the CHGIS datasets, the user can search the database for administrative units and capitals for any given time in Chinese history, can create customized digital…
Minority Data Resource Center Announced today, this new special archive of ICPSR “provides data resources for the comparative analysis of issues affecting racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States.” (quoted from front page). The data listed here is a subset of the ICPSR collection. Carleton faculty, students, and staff can sign up for…
WBI Governance & Anti-Corruption – Interactive Inventory of Datasets/Empirical Tools So far, this is the closest site I’ve found to a comprehensive listing of datasets on governance. This site is hosted and maintained by the World Bank. The invaluable tools here are: External Governance Datasets. An interactive, alphabetical list of datasets and brief descriptions Internal…
Letting the Odum Institute speak for itself: Data Archive Catalog “The Odum Institute maintains one of the oldest and largest catalog of machine-readable data in the U.S. It has an extensive collection of U.S. Census data, including one of the most complete holdings for 1970 Census files. Other major sources of data include the North…
CPANDA Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive Data on participation in and policy on the arts: art forms, artists, performers, art education, audiences, cultural policy issues, media coverage of the arts, arts organizations, public attitudes, venues, etc. Much of it is survey data. Geographic coverage: national and state data for the United States.
The Madiera portal …harvests statistical datasets and variables published on the Semantic Web from all the largest European social sciences data archives, organizes them using a set of multilingual thesauri and taxonomies and makes them available through a responsive and highly customizable Web interface… The Madiera project has provided a common integrated interface to the…