I recently updated this site with a page listing the DCXL Requirements. These five requirements are the basic feature set and capabilities we would like…
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I’m guilty. I often admit this when I meet librarians at conferences and workshops – I’m guilty of never using my librarians as a resource…
What Scientists Want: Requirements Part 3
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I’m in the process of posting the requirements we are submitting for the DCXL add-in, in four parts. “Requirements” are the capabilities we want the…
What Scientists Want: Requirements Part 2
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I’m in the process of posting the requirements we are submitting for the DCXL add-in. These are the capabilities we want the proposed add-in to…
What Scientists Want: Requirements Part 1
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Just before the holidays, I managed to finish the first version of the DCXL requirements. These requirements are the set of Excel capabilities that scientists…
The NeverEnding Task: Organizing Files
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In my speaking with scientists about data management, I often talk about how they organize their work files on their computers. Asking someone about this…
Back in October, the National Science Foundation announced changes to its Grant Proposal Guidelines (Full GPG for January 2013 here). I blogged about this back when the announcement was…
Ontologies and Data
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Ontologies is one of those words I hear people toss about in conversations about computing, programming, and development. I usually nod and smile, pretending I know…
NSF Panel Review of Data Management Plans
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With the clarity of the New Year, I realized I broke a promise to you DCXL readers… in my post on data policies, I stated…
What You and Odysseus Have in Common
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If you are like me, you begrudgingly read Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey in high school, but remember very little. I would like to remind you…