DLI FTP Site

To facilitate browsing, two changes have been made to the DLI home directory of the FTP site (/DissFTP/dli/).

1: You will notice that an English list of surveys and products (except geography, Census and trade) is now available in a directory called DLI collection ** except Census; Geography and Trade** . An equivalent French list is available in a directory called Collection de l'IDD **sauf le recensement; géographie et commerce international**.

The data files and documentation in these two directories are identical. The only difference between the two is the language used in the list of surveys and products. For example, if you access General Social Survey-GSS and Enquête sociale générale-ESG, the data and documentation directories within these two folders is identical.

The following directories under /DissFTP/dli/ have not been changed : (some of these were too large to be duplicated and included in separate access points)

Census of Agriculture - Recensement de l'agriculture
Census of Population - Recensement de la population
Geography - Géographie
Mirror-site-files-dliftp.library.ualberta.ca
Trade - Commerce international
Training-Repository - Dépôt des documents de formation
Readme-first-Lisez-moi.txt
Utility - Tools - Utilitaires - Outils

With this change, administrative directories and files that have always been under /DissFTP/dli/ on the FTP site may be more apparent (ex. z_dli_mirror, zmiralb, zz-other, zzlogs, .forward, .sh_history, .Xauthority, Dirlist.txt, exclude.txt, excludetar.txt, Readme-first.txt). These files are required to administer the FTP site.

Licensing question: sharing report based upon DLI data with company

Question

Some student assignments in our Business School involve developing marketing (or other) plans for actual companies and organizations, in order to give students real-world experience. These reports are often shared with the organization at the end of the project. Instructors have asked whether students can use DLI resources in their assignments, if the results are going to be shared with a company. This is a different scenario than the one in the list of licensing examples ("Students doing an independent study for a professor, a business proposal, which might then be used to start a Centre within the university") which was approved, since the end user will be a profit-making enterprise. [Note: the data is not being shared, but rather the conclusions based upon the data obtained through the DLI.]

I suspect that the answer is no but thought I should check.



Answer

Since these projects are assignments that are required for a course, they can use the DLI data to prepare their assignment and share the plan or analysis with companies and organizations. They cannot share the data but the analysis and/or plans can be shared with anyone.

Hope this helps.

Moving from data barriers to data stewardship gaps

CISTI has just announced the release of a publication prepared by the
Research Data Strategy Working Group addressing gaps in data stewardship.
The announcement is provided below and includes a link to the report.

This report is to some extent an update to the 1996 publication, "Data Policy and
Barriers to Data Access in Canada: Issues for Global Change Research," which i view as
the quintessential benchmark against which
data stewardship progress in Canada should be measured.

Table 2 on page 17 shows a lot of work remains and that progress has
been spotty since the 1996 report. However, one statement on this
page should catch the eyes of those associated with the DLI: "There
are considerable variations across disciplines, which contributes to
the complexity of these issues. The social sciences are ahead in
some areas because of the international data documentation standard
DDI, which has been embraced in Canada by the Data Liberation
Initiative."

Seth Grimes' Blog: The Real Data Liberation Initiative

Seth Grimes (a fellow IASSISTer) writes: "I posted a blog
article, "The Real Data Liberation Initiative," in response to a
data-warehousing vendor's "data liberation manifesto," a marketing
ploy aimed at Oracle".

http://www.intelligententerprise.com/blog/archives/2009/01/the_real_data_l.html

Data Liberators of the world... unite and take over!