[Repec-data] metametrik

[Thomas Krichel]

  Propaganda from the Open Knowledge Foundation

  Open Knowledge Foundation writes

>  There are a few updates from the very cool Open Economics project,
> which aims to bring openness, transparency and open access to
> economics. This month they completed work on the Open Economics
> Principles
> (http://blog.okfn.org/2013/08/07/introducing-the-open-economics-principles/)
> , and since the launch have already received 178 signatures as well
> as one institutional endorsement from the World Bank' Data
> Development Group. They’ve also recently built a prototype for the
> storage and search of econometric results, which they’re calling
> Metametrik (http://metametrik.openeconomics.net) . In a world of
> rapidly increasing data availability, Metametrik allows researchers
> to find relevant sets of papers based on a whole load of variables,
> including dependent variable, independent variable, model, controls,
> journal, year, authors, JEL codes and key words. Find out more here
> (http://openeconomics.net/metametrik/) .

  The problem that they have is that they quickly shut down
  projects when they don't have funding for them. But they 
  may still be a valuable short-run partner. 

> And as the Open Economics project comes to the end of its first
> phase, Velichka has shared the story so far on the blog
> (http://blog.okfn.org/2013/08/30/open-economics-the-story-so-far/) -
> have a read for an inspiring example of the progress the can be made
> in a single domain of openness in a short space of time. What’s
> next?



  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                  http://openlib.org/home/krichel
                                              skype:thomaskrichel