ICPSR Updates and Additions for 8/27

The ICPSR has announced more updates and additions to its data holdings. You can see the full list of new/revised studies at

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/org/announce.html#new2007-08-27.

Some of the highlights include a merged 16-country dataset from round II of the Afrobarometers survey series; Eurobarometer 65.2, and the 2005 Japanese General Social Survey.

The full list of new or revised ICPSR studies is available at

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/access/recent.html.

New Datasets Available at the Roper Center

Roper Center Archives Update, July 2007

The Roper Center has just added more studies into its archive of survey data sets. Highlights of this latest round of additions include the following:

• 2006 TransAtlantic Trends conducted by Taylor Nelson Sofres for The German Marshall Fund of the United States and Compagnia di San Paolo di Torino, Italy, June 6-24, 2006. The survey includes interviews with 13,044 adult residents of Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
• 5 new CBS News/New York Times polls conducted from October-December, 2006 including samples of adult residents of Ohio and New Jersey.

See the link above to get a .pdf with the full list of additions and updates to datasets in Roper’s holdings. You can view current and past announcements of updates to Roper’s archives at the following URL:

http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/data/past_data_announcements.html

ICPSR Additions and Updates

The ICPSR has added several new studies into its holdings and has updated several other studies. The full list of additions/updates is available at

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/org/announce.html#new2007-08-13

The more noteworthy additions include Eurobarometer 65.1 (The Future of Europe, Consumer Protection in Transborder Purchases, Family Planning, and Opinions and Experiences in Transborder Purchases, February-March 2006) and the American Terrorism Study, 1980-2002.

You can see a list of all ICPSR updates and additions and sign up for notification of updates to the ICPSR archive at

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/access/recent.html

New Datasets Available at the Roper Center

Roper Center Archives Update, June 2007

The Roper Center has added several new studies into its archive and has updated several older studies as well. Amongst the highlights are the following surveys:

• NCCJ Intergroup Relations Survey conduced by ICR from January 13-March 30, 2005.
• 14 new NBC News/Wall Street Journal polls conducted from July 2005 to April 2007.
• 3 new Los Angeles Times Polls including samples of Republican and Democratic National Committee members.
• Religion and Ethics Newsweekly and U.S. News and World Report America’s Evangelicals survey conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, March 16-April 4, 2004

See the link above to get a .pdf with the full list of additions and updates to datasets in Roper’s holdings. With Roper Express, Emory faculty and students can now directly download data files from Roper.

You can view current and past announcements of updates to Roper’s archives at the following URL:

http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/data/past_data_announcements.html.

GeoPDFs Extend the Capability of Digital Maps

The Electronic Data Center recently acquired a license to TerraGo Technologies Map2PDF. Map2PDF is a authoring application to create digital maps in GeoPDF. GeoPDF is a proprietary extension to the Adobe PDF file format. The extension transforms PDF coordinates to a projected Cartesian coordinate system and allows other advanced PDF features such as layers and object data. A GeoPDF enabled digital map can be viewed and annotated using Adobe Acrobat Reader and the GeoPDF Toolbar plug-in (both are free downloads).

1954 topographic sheet from the library’s collection

While Woodruff Library maintains an extensive collection of printed USGS Topographic Maps, the USGS has recently upgraded their online store to improve the searching of USGS topographic maps with the extended functionality of the GeoPDF format. Simply search the Google Map API within the USGS Store’s – Map Locator & Downloader, select a point on the map, double-click the icon and download your map. With the GeoPDF Toolbar you can view maps with multiple coordinate displays, measure length and area, turn layers on and off, and search map attributes. If the map is reader enabled you add can notes, redlines, markups, images or other data from multiple sources. Access to the authoring environment is available at the EDC to Emory faculty, staff, and students. Please note that the application is restricted for specific educational purposes only.