This guide is designed for use during the Firefox Workshop.

Look through the guide and try to really update it in PennPage. So, copy the things that look like they might still be useful, and then update books that have newer editions, and websites that don't work. Just make sure that you make a note of the things that you should check with Nick. Also, are there things about Philadelphia that should be added? Things you know about? Just amke sure someone can tell the difference between what you added and what you copied.

Shapefiles and data at the census tract, county, state, and other geographic levels going back to 1790 for counties, and 1910 for tracts. Also includes some data for downloading.

These are slides from the 4 day "Understanding Federal Statistics" workshop held in May 2008. They are a good starting point for learning about Federal Data Sources.

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Data Science Journal, Volume 6, Open Data Issue, 17 June 2007

This site lists the publications of the DISc-UK DataShare project, whichis one of the best sources I know of to learn about the issues around data repositories.

Translates units into examples. Very useful for adding some reality to measurements.

A nice google maps mashup about election results.

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J Appl Ccorporate Finance, Volume 20 Issue 1 Page 47-58, Winter 2008

I am adding value by describing this article in depth with brilliance. 

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Education for Chemical Engineers vol 2. iss 1. 2007, Pages 56-67

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Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine; Apr2008, Vol. 59 Issue 11, p35-50, 16p, 1 chart, 1 graph

The article focuses on the partnership between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), local shareholders and the University of Washington in Seattle for the school-based nutrition intervention program Eat Better, Feel Better. One of its goals is to increase community awareness of the benefits of healthy eating. It was built on resources from the university, community and schools to address the problems of program evaluation. Students at the intervention school chose vegetables during lunch.

24 cds record hourly surface readings internationally from 1995-2002.

Van Pelt Library, Room 207
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Documents the street name changes within Philadelphia Streets.  Try multiple variations of the street name to find it.

History of manufactures in the United States : 1607-1860

by Victor S Clark

The Library of Congress announces a partnership with flickr to collect metadata.

Available Topics Include:
*Economic
-- Industry wages
-- Top industries
-- Top occupation groups
-- Labor force by age
-- Education Levels

*Demographic
-- Income
-- Population Pyramid
-- School Enrollment
*Economic
-- Industry wages
-- Top industries
-- Top occupation groups
-- Labor force by age
-- Education Levels

*Demographic
-- Income
-- Population Pyramid
-- School Enrollment

*Housing
-- Mortgage Averages
-- Occupancy Status
-- Ownership Rates
-- Housing Costs

*Transportation
-- Commute Times
-- Means of Transportation

*Community Assets
-- Public Schools
-- Colleges and Universities

New Yorker; 10/22/2007, Vol. 83 Issue 32, p150-163, 13p

The article profiles author and television producer David Simon. Simon, a former reporter for the newspaper "The Baltimore Sun," created the television program "The Wire" about drug crimes in Baltimore. Convicted drug dealer Melvin Williams plays a role on the program. Simon comments how the program depicts the devaluation of people and how much of the program's content is inspired by real events. He describes his struggle to get the program aired on the cable network Home Box Office (HBO).

Busy time of the day

The Constitution of the United States. 

"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"

Local organizations and information. Don't let the clunkiness of the site deter you. There is a lot of great information about philadlephia here.

The Penn Library Toolbar:

Search: 

# The Penn website using Google
# Penn Libraries databases, e-journals, FAQs, web pages, and more using FindIt
# Franklin Library Catalog by Title, Keywords, Author, and Journal Title
# VCat, the Library Video Catalog, for videos and DVD collections in the Penn Library
# Databases such as EBSCO Megafile, JSTOR, ABI/Inform, PubMed, WorldCat, and ScienceDirect
# Google and Google Scholar

This site is a non-profit, freely browsable database of crimes reported in Chicago.

It is not affiliated with the Chicago Police Department or with Google Maps. It is not an official source of crime information for the city of Chicago. Rather, it is an alternative view of public record that is available elsewhere.

Same sex and unmarried partner household data are collected for those households where the householder and his or her partner are not married, but are living in a close personal relationship. An unmarried partner can be of the same sex or opposite sex of the householder.

An unmarried partner, in an unmarried partner household, is an adult who is unrelated to the householder, but shares living quarters and has a close personal relationship with the householder. This relationship is based on the self-identification of respondents.

Here are some sources for your use:

• The American FactFinder contains two sources:
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  • American Community Survey   Table B11009, shows "Unmarried Partner Households by Sex of Partner."
  • Census 2000, Summary File (SF) 1 Table PCT14, "Unmarried Partner Households by Sex of Partner" is available for the nation, state, metropolitan statistical area, city/place, county, and various other geographies.
  • Additionally, same-sex unmarried partner household data were collected in the 1990 Census. The Technical Note on Same-Sex Unmarried Partner Data From the 1990 and 2000 Censuses provides guidance on comparing these data.
• The Census 2000 special reports include:
  • Married-Couple and Unmarried Partner Households: 2000 and
  • Population and Housing Table, PHC-T-19, Hispanic Origin and Race of Coupled Households provides race and gender for unmarried partner households for the U.S.
• The Census Bureau also collects data for same sex and unmarried partner households in ongoing survey programs, but does not regularly produce tabulations on this topic. For more information and special studies on the subjects of same gender couples and unmarried partner households based on the Census Bureau's survey programs, visit the Population Division Working Papers:
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  • No. 34, Unbinding the Ties: Edit Effects of Marital Status on Same Gender Couples.
  • No. 35, Racial-Ethnic and Gender Differences in Returns to Cohabitation and Marriage: Evidence for the Current Population Survey.
  • No. 36, How Does POSSLQ Measure Up? Historical Estimates of Cohabitation.

This book is great.

So interesting and useful 

• The Penn website using Google
• Penn Library databases, e-journals, FAQs, Library web pages and more using FindIt!
• Franklin Library Catalog by Title, Keywords, Author and Journal Title
• VCat, the Library Video Catalog, for Videos and DVD Collections in the Penn Library
• Databases such as EBSCO Megafile, JSTOR, ABI/Inform, PubMed and WorldCat
• Google and Google Scholar

Google maps mashup includes data on population, housing cost, housing market, schools, safety, health, climate, income/work, and age ethnicity for the continental US.

annoyingly, their "explains" don't say where the data comes from, so it's hard to know how up to date it is. However, it's neat.

• Mapping studies of criminal justice population concentrations, including adults and juveniles going in and out of prison and jail; people on probation and parole; and, juveniles in detention.
• Graphics and other charts of administrative, political, social, educational, and other boundary aggregations, such as school districts, city council jurisdictions, neighborhoods, or police precincts.
• Supportive contextual maps of socio-demographics, such as single parent households, disconnected youth, home ownership rates, poverty, income, and many other census bureau statistics.
• Maps of other government health and human services, child welfare, and labor populations, such as TANF, Food Stamps, Medicaid, and Unemployment Insurance recipients, as well as Foster Care clients and reports of Abuse and Neglect.
• Mapping studies of prison and jail expenditures.
• Spider mapping analyses of probation and parole caseload distributions.
• Maps of geographic and neighborhood overlaps between criminal justice and other government client populations.
• Prisoner reentry mapping studies.
• Maps of community institutional networks, such as the location, capacity, and performance of schools, or government institutional networks, such as federally qualified health centers.

Derik Badman has links to some Search Plugins that we don't have. And some that we do. I'm not sure how he did these

Public assistance programs provide benefits only to those with too few resources to support themselves. Generally, such programs consider both assets and income in determining eligibility for benefits and payment amounts. The rationale for this approach is that the government should not have to support people who can take care of themselves by converting bank accounts, stock holdings, vehicles, or retirement accounts into cash or collateral. As such, assets are considered "means" that should allow families to avoid destitution. Assistance programs typically do not count assets below some low threshold, allowing families some savings or a car that may be necessary for work. However, families with assets above the threshold may be ineligible if they fail the so-called "asset tests" designed to target payments to those most in need.

Asset tests can create a disincentive to save among families who might subsequently qualify for benefits. Sometimes one additional dollar of assets can result in the loss of thousands of dollars per year in public assistance benefits. This raises the question: Do asset tests actually discourage savings and reduce asset accumulation among families who might qualify for public assistance benefits? At least one influential paper says yes. Hubbard, Skinner, and Zeldes, in their 1995 article, interpret the low levels of wealth accumulation among low-income households as a rational, utility-maximizing response to asset-based, means-tested welfare programs.

This brief describes current asset tests and discusses their role in reducing asset building by low-income families. We identify the target population subject to asset tests, describe the various asset tests, review background data and previous research, consider strategies for meeting a mix of objectives, and point to the need for additional research and policy analysis.

Requires free registration. 

Neighborhood Facts provides detailed and the most current information about Denver's 77 neighborhoods. It includes data, maps and graphs about each neighborhood's population, housing, economic and education characteristics, and the health and safety of its residents. It is designed for use by neighborhood residents, policy makers and others who care about Denver's neighborhoods.

Requires free registration.
The Franklin County DataSource is a web-based geographic data application designed to assist human services and community development organizations, funders, government agencies, researchers and concerned individuals in their efforts to understand community conditions and improve the quality of life in central Ohio. The online mapping, reporting and data analysis tools can be used to focus in on a specific zip code, census tract or planning area. Users can also draw comparisons between individual geographies or compare local conditions to the city as a whole. Drawing upon a wealth of social, demographic and real property data, DataSource users have a powerful tool that greatly enhances their ability to identify community needs, plan new programs, allocate and manage resources and target improvements.

A great Harper's article on the relationship of authorship to creation.  Highlights:

"Any text that has infiltrated the common mind to the extent of Gone With the Wind or Lolita or Ulysses inexorably joins the language of culture. A map-turned-to-landscape, it has moved to a place beyond enclosure or control. The authors and their heirs should consider the subsequent parodies, refractions, quotations, and revisions an honor, or at least the price of a rare success." 

I've long thought that a reasonable plan. 

Article in Harpers from 2004 describing the lack of reconstruction in Baghdad and describing Baghdad year Zero.

A much better than average report on the relationships between librarianship and the values of libraries and the values held by the media savvy, technology-centered students of today. Describes the two sets of values, and describes how libraries can adabt to the new expectation in meaningful ways.
 

pg 99 "It is clear that Millennials and others comfortable with a wide range of media and technologies will redefine the traditional manifestations of research and creative activity with these new mashed, cut and pasted creations. For them, the line between consumer and creator is blurred in a way that previously was not possible."

pg 100 "Clear rifts have emerged in the virtual terrain that is occupied by library policies, services and collections and is explored by online users. These rifts or disconnects can be grouped into three classifications for redress. These include technology (infrastructure and integration), policy (copyright, IT policy, liability), and unexploited opportunities."

Useful overview of new ways of thinking about the role of library discovery systems in the context of the networked environment.  Highlights the necessary changes to the function of library catalogs now that discovery, location, request and retrieval can be separated from one another. 

"Much of the discussion is about improving the catalogue user's experience, not an unreasonable aspiration. However, we really need to put this in the context of a more far-reaching set of issues about discovery and about the continued evolution of library systems, including the catalogue, in a changing network environment. In this environment, users increasingly discover resources in places other than the catalogue."

Argues for the usefulness of collaborative tagging, and highlights the known problems with free tagging. Points to some obvious, and some more controversial ways of limiting problems of inter-tagger inconsistency and meaningless distinctions.

In this article we look at what makes folksonomies work. We agree with the premise that tags are no replacement for formal systems, but we see this as being the core quality that makes folksonomy tagging so useful. We begin by looking at the issue of "sloppy tags", a problem to which critics of folksonomies are keen to allude, and ask if there are ways the folksonomy community could offset such problems and create systems that are conducive to searching, sorting and classifying. We then go on to question this "tidying up" approach and its underlying assumptions, highlighting issues surrounding removal of low-quality, redundant or nonsense metadata, and the potential risks of tidying too neatly and thereby losing the very openness that has made folksonomies so popular.

Shows the practices of taggers and tags.

Collaborative tagging describes the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content. Recently, collaborative tagging has grown in popularity on the web, on sites that allow users to tag bookmarks, photographs and other content. In this paper we analyze the structure of collaborative tagging systems as well as their dynamical aspects. Specifically, we discovered regularities in user activity, tag frequencies, kinds of tags used, bursts of popularity in bookmarking and a remarkable stability in the relative proportions of tags within a given url. We also present a dynamical model of collaborative tagging that predicts these stable patterns and relates them to imitation and shared knowledge.

Looks at the development of various classification systems leading up to tagging, or user created metadata. Argues that tagging more closely mirrors the nature of web information.

Argues that ontologies are a bad ideal for organizing the world online. Points out that library classification systems are designed to optimize space on the shelves, not to describe the essences of identities. Also, that library classification systems are fundamentally about organizing books, not about organizing the enormity of human knowledge. The same flaws exists in a hierarchical file system. That it is designed with the assumption that a thing can only be in one place at one time -- it makes some attempt to have the organizional structure of ideas match the physical world, where in fact a pointer, or an idea, or a metaphorical path can be in countless places at the same time, and can have many equally important and useful relationships which describe it.

That ontologies are useful where there are expert users, clear categories and a limited domain. But, much less useful for non-expert users or large domains, and fuzzy categories. Links are the universal pointers on the web, and the addition of tags is simple, and provides a much more useful finding system than an ontology. With a system like delicious, you get to know who's doing the tagging, not just what the tags are, so you get to limit searches by people and time, limiting the size of your group [penntags tie-in].

 Alexander, Bryan. "Web 2.0. A New Wave of Innovation For Teaching and Learning" EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 2 (March/April 2006): 32–44.
pg 33
"The idea dates as far back as the 1960s and JCR Licklider’s thoughts on using networked computing to connect people in order to boost their knowledge and their ability to learn."
The new ways of using the web are about manipulation of content and participation by readers.
pg 34
Describes the importance of "microcontent" for users, who can move around the web. Microcontent is of course not new, and can be seen to go back to email messages, etc.
Tying the use of microcontent and user participation together with user-created metadata, such as tags and folksonomies. [With all of this microcontent out there to be manipulated, and all of these ways of manipulating it, users need to be able to tag the content with terms to help them retrieve them, as they can not count on remembering which bit of microcentent came from where, etc.]
pg 35 -end.
Introduces and describes delicious, mentioning people connecting to each other through metadata. mentions penntags and h20 and then moves on to wikis and writely.
moves on to blogs and rss, moves on to blog searching, technorati, memeorandom, etc. to digg, ohmynews. then onto sites that let users combine these, like gnosh and rollyo. Raises the question of how universities will deal with this: (Pg 42) "How will colleges and universities consider preserving such small pieces of intellectual work, especially as the works migrate across multiple, shifting, changing platforms?"
Then raises questions about copyright, etc.