Author: CDL UC3

At long last, DataONE has gone live.  For veterans of the DCXL/DataUp blog, you are probably well aware of the DataONE organization and project, but…

This past Sunday and Monday, DataONE had their annual Users Group Meeting (DUG) in Madison, WI. The meeting is a chance for librarians, information specialists,…

Thanks to DataONE‘s own Amber Budden for passing along this gem.  It starts getting good around the one minute mark. Enjoy! [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtKADQnjQmc?rel=0&w=420&h=315]

One of my UC3 colleagues is at the Open Repositories 2012 Meeting (#OR2012) in Edinburgh, Scotland this week.  This prompted me to ask two questions: (1) What does…

Happy Independence Day (Americans) and a belated Happy Canada Day (Canadians)!  We are smack dab in the middle of the lazy days of summer, which…

Discussions about data seem to be everywhere.  For evidence of this, look at recent discussions of big data, calls for increasing cyber-infrastructure for data, data…

You might notice that I haven’t spoken much about DCXL lately.  Alternatively, you read the blog for the riveting articles on data topics, in which case…

A powerful tool for working with messy data. This is the tag line for Google Refine, a web-based application that can be used to manipulate…