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How do I get my data indexed by Google Dataset Search?

You may want to stop and ask why you should want to be indexed there. Dataset Search seems like a poorly planned effort to try and corner dataset search. Why the push isn't for open linked datasets/...
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ISO 3166-2 codes to Olson Time Zone Codes

You can create an ISO 3166-2 and time zone list using the Geonames API. If you use the general search API, you can pass a wildcard in for the name and specify the feature code and feature class ...
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Data for all lakes on Earth?

Wikidata knows of about 240,000 lake. Here's a query that will give you the first 1000. #List of all the lakes SELECT ?itemLabel ?coord WHERE { ?item (wdt:P31/wdt:P279*) wd:Q23397. OPTIONAL { ?...
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The list of restricted second-level domains such as .co.uk and .ac.jp

This "restricted domain" is known an effective top-level domain (eTLD)", or a suffix. By Mozilla: "A "public suffix" is one under which Internet users can (or historically could) directly register ...
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is there a dataset of financial blogs?

Here's another list that's updated more frequently and has slightly different metrics, should also be easy to parse (minus the pagination): http://www.investmentzen.com/top-personal-finance-blogs
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is there a dataset of financial blogs?

Answers to this question are easily found with a search engine. For example, A list of 789 financial blogs: Top Personal Finance Blogs There is no export, but the 7 pages of HTML-tables are pretty ...
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NEISS injury dataset - machine readable coding for characterizations

Based on the PDF manual, there is an R package on Github called Neiss that has an excel file with mapping between codes and text descriptions. Direct link: https://github.com/hadley/neiss/blob/master/...
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ISO 3166-2 codes to Olson Time Zone Codes

As to shapefiles, have a look at: http://efele.net/maps/tz/world/ https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder But probably you need just this: $ awk '!/#/ {print $1,$3}' /usr/share/...
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A database of open databases?

Google Dataset Search https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch A recent tool in beta. Blogpost FAQ Guidelines for developers (get your data indexed)
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Where can I find an ontology for “project”?

A list of ontologies used in Linked Open Data using project can be found here https://lov.linkeddata.es/dataset/lov/terms?q=project
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How can I track updates on the release of new open data sources across the world?

Check out http://databullet.in. It's operated by Knoema/The World Bank but aggregates data releases as they occur from about two dozen different sources. Also, I would recommend Quartz's Atlas for ...
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What is the value of standardized metadata (e.g. OAI-PMH, LOM, Dublin Core) in the days of search engines?

Meta-data is more important than ever. Google and other search engines created their own meta-data and vocabularies over at http://Schema.org. Google would for example not be able to show you runs ...
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Get metadata from all datasets on Socrata

Approach #1 is doable, but not necessary. We'll go with approach #2 here: Download metadata provided by Socrata. The Open Data Network has an official API that you can use to query the various ...
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Graph representation of NUTS-3 regions to determine adjacency

Based on the NUTS-3 Boundaries in Eurostat and some GeoTools code I generated this list for you. Where the first column is the NUTS_ID of the zone and the list in [] is the list of neighbours, which ...
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Looking for taxonomy for skills databases?

Open Skills offers an API, though I'm not sure if the data matches your requirements: Open Skills Project
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Open data for software requirements

Libraries.io catalogs dependency relationships between open source projects and other project metadata for a set of supported package managers. There is an API here.
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Where can I find a large unprocessed dataset?

Japanese Trade Stats This seems to satisfy your request. There are other data sets on that site if your find this particular one doesn’t.
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Adding organization metadata to RSS/Atom feed?

The best representation I've seen are mixtures of Microformats, Schema.org, and Dublin Core. Essentially, utilize the semantics that are best for your situation; it sounds rel="author" is what you are ...
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Where can I find demographic data on ABC network shows?

You can get a good amount of data from UCLA's Hollywood Diversity Report. Linked is the one for 2018, but is seems they do one every year. So far, I've only been able to find a PDF.
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College Scorecard: determining how representative data is of the overall undergraduate body

Thanks for submitting your questions. I forwarded your questions to our helpdesk and received the following responses. I hope you find them helpful. What is the best way to determine the concrete ...
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Google Directions train timetable coverage by country

HAFAS is pretty good and can be most easily accessed through https://www.bahn.de, but also via the Dutch, Swiss, or Austrian travel planners. I believe HAFAS is open data accessible by API, but I'm ...
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How do I get my data indexed by Google Dataset Search?

The easiest way to make your dataset eligible to be included in Dataset Search results is to upload it to a repository that adheres to metadata standards used by Dataset Search. There are many such ...
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Metadata on scientific articles (economics) conditional to set of queries

You can request an API key from RePEc. The above link discusses API format and another API for citations.
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Where can I download non-malicious .EXE files for my machine learning model

You can search google by filetype, so if any of these filetypes are appropriate https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35287?hl=en You can use the filetype: operator in Google Search to ...
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Which currencies are used in IMF's / Worldbank's PA.NUS.FCRF forex data?

On the page you have linked to, click "Details", then click "All metadata". Then create a report of this kind: http://databank.worldbank.org/data/LCU-in-2017/id/f7f1ba3.
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Cannot access to the OSM Boundaries website

Please have a look at this thread. As well as I understand, the maintainer will shutdown this domain. One shoud use https://wambachers-osm.website/boundaries/ instead.
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Bulk access to data on scientific literature (affiliation, citations etc)

For anyone still looking for sources of citation network data, and paper metadata for global cross-disciplinary publications, the Open Academic Graph project from Microsoft and AMiner combines two of ...
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