[COMM-ORG] query: community data portals

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[ed:  please feel welcomed to copy COMM-ORG with responses to Adrienne's 
query.  A bit from me below.]

From: Adrienne L. Falcon <afalcon at carleton.edu>

Greetings all,

We are working on developing  a local data portal here at Carleton 
College to support students, faculty and community members interested in 
working primarily with existing data (and potentially in the future to 
add data gathered through shared research projects).  We have been 
looking for other models out there and have found them at the city and 
state level, but not at the local county or city level connected with a 
college or other civic engagement program.

Do you know of any?  Have you participated in the creation of a local 
data portal/hub?

Thanks in advance for any ideas,

Adrienne

Adrienne Falcon
Coordinator of Academic Civic Engagement
Carleton College
1 North College St.
Northfield, MN 55057

[ed:  there are a number of "indicators" efforts out there that do parts 
of what Adrienne is talking about.  Some of them are sponsored by 
university shops and a couple have had some higher ed community 
engagement dimensions. My favorites are the members of the National 
Neighborhood Indicators Partnership at http://www2.urban.org/nnip/.  I 
did some writing about these things a couple of years ago--Stoecker, 
Randy.  2006.  "Neighborhood Data Systems: A Foundation for Resident 
Participation." Community Development, 37:109-122. ]