It’s now mid-October, and I’m guessing that first year graduate students are knee-deep in courses, barely considering their potential thesis project. But for those that…
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DataONE Funded by NSF for Another Round!
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This is a week for important funding announcements! I already blogged about our new NSF funding for a Data-Level Metrics project with PLOS and DataONE, and on the heels…
We are excited to announce that UC3, in partnership with PLOS and DataONE, are launching a new project to develop data-level metrics (DLMs). This 12-month project is…
The Dash Partners Meeting
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This past Thursday, 30 University of California system librarians, developers, and colleagues from nine of the ten campuses assembled at UCLA’s Charles E. Young Library for…
DataUp is Merging with Dash!
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Exciting news! We are merging the DataUp tool with our new data sharing platform, Dash. About Dash Dash is a University of California project to…
The First UC Libraries Code Camp
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This post was co-authored by Stephen Abrams. So 30 coders walk into a conference center in Oakland… No, it’s not a bad joke in need of a punch line, it…
DataCite Meeting in Nancy, France
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Last week I took a lovely train ride through the cow-dotted French countryside to attend the 2014 DataCite Annual Conference. The event was held at…
Sharing is caring, but should it count?
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The following is a guest post by Shea Swauger, Data Management Librarian at Colorado State University. Shea and I both participated in a meeting for the Colorado Alliance…
Unicorn Data Sharing
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A few years ago I created a little video about data sharing using an online application called Xtranormal. Alas, the application has gone bust and and…
It takes a data management village
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A couple of weeks ago, information scientists, librarians, social scientists, and their compatriots gathered in Toronto for the 2014 IASSIST meeting. IASSIST is, of course,…