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,…
It takes a data management village
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Author: CDL UC3
Many open issues drift around data publication, but validation is both the biggest and the haziest. Some form of validation at some stage in a…
Git/GitHub: A Primer for Researchers
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I might be what a guy named Everett Rogers would call an “early adopter“. Rogers wrote a book back in 1962 call The Diffusion of Innovation,…
Big thanks to Kara Woo of Washington State University for this guest blog post! Update: The XLConnect package has been updated to fix the problem described below;…
Feedback Wanted: Publishers & Data Access
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This post is co-authored with Jennifer Lin, PLOS Short Version: We need your help! We have generated a set of recommendations for publishers to help increase access to…
Mountain Observatories in Reno
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A few months ago, I blogged about my experiences at the NSF Large Facilities Workshop. “Large Facilities” encompass things like NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network), IRIS PASSCAL Instrument…
I know what you’re thinking– how can yet another post on the #PLOSfail hoopla say anything new? Fear not. I say nothing particularly new here,…
This post is by Natsuko Nicholls and John Kratz. Natsuko is a CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for the Sciences and Social Sciences at…
Institutional Repositories: Part 2
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A few weeks back I wrote a post describing institutional repositories (IRs for short). IRs have been around for a while, with the impetus of making…
Today, we’re opening a survey of researcher perceptions and practices around data publication. Why are you doing a survey? The term “Data publication” applies language…