Last Friday I attended a seminar at UC Berkeley’s iSchool given by MacKenzie Smith, a terrific presenter and colleague who is affiliated with Creative Commons (among…
Data Policies & Other Things
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Month: April 2012
This post was contributed by Lisa Federer, Health and Life Sciences Librarian at UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library In my previous life as an…
This post is authored by Eric Kansa There is a great deal of interest in the sciences and humanities around how to manage “data.” By…
Last week the DCXL crew worked on finishing up the metadata schema that we will implement in the DCXL project. WAIT! Keep reading! I know…
Popular Demand for Public Data
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When talking about data publication, many of us get caught up in protracted conversations aimed at carefully anticipating and building solutions for every possible permutation…
Data Citation Redux
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I know what faithful DCXL readers are thinking: didn’t you already post about data citation? (For the unfaithful among you, check out this post from…
The Future of Metrics in Science
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Ask any researcher what they need for tenure, and the answer is virtually the same across institutions and disciplines: publications. The “publish or perish” model has…
This post was co-authored by Dr. Michael Weiner, CIND director at UCSF The DataShare project is a collaboration between University of California San Francisco’s Clinical…