events
Party with PIDapalooza (virtually) in 2021
PIDapalooza is going online in 2021! We wish we could all be together in person for the fifth (!) festival of persistent identifiers, but we’re excited to bring the world’s largest—and longest—virtual PID party directly to your desk, your couch, your balcony—really, anywhere there’s a strong WiFi signal. PIDapalooza 2021 will be a 24-hour nonstop […]
Lessons learned from organizing the first ever virtual csv,conf
This blogpost was collaboratively written by the csv,conf organizing team which includes John Chodacki from CDL. csv,conf is supported by the Sloan Foundation and the Moore Foundation. The original post can be found here: https://csvconf.com/going-online A brief history csv,conf is a community conference that brings diverse groups together to discuss data topics, and features stories about data […]
csv,conf,v5 moves online
csv,conf is a non-profit community conference run by folks who really love data and sharing knowledge. The first two years, organizers established the event’s scope and community in Berlin, Germany. The third and fourth year, the organizers moved the event to Portland, Oregon. And, starting this year, we hoped to move the event to Washington, […]
Advancing FAIR and GO FAIR in the U.S.: Notes from the Workshop
In February, I had the privilege of attending “Advancing FAIR and GO FAIR in the U.S.”, a workshop put on by GO FAIR USA in conjunction with the San Diego Supercomputer Center’s (SDSC) Research Data Services, and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The event was held in Atlanta, and hosted by the South […]
PIDapalooza 2020: Highlights from the Fourth Festival of PIDs
Last month, PIDapalooza rocked the world again! The fourth festival of persistent identifiers, which took place in Lisbon, featured a Portuguese classical guitarist, a Japanese nail artist, an interpretive dance about the scientific process, several uses of beach balls, silly hats and bells, the latest version of the fabulous PIDapalooza playlist and, of course, the […]
We’re Having a (PID) Party – And You’re Invited!
PIDapalooza 2020 is just around the corner (January 29-30, Lisbon, Portugal) — and it’s going to be fun! We have a great venue, the fabulous Belem Cultural Center, and a great lineup: On the main stage — three amazing keynotes: Maria Fernanda Rollo (NOVA FSCH), Beth Plale (NSF), and Kathryn Kaiser (University of Alabama, Birmingham). […]
NSF Workshop Overview: Focusing on Researcher Perspectives
Since its founding, Dryad has hosted a researcher-led, open data publishing community and service. With the California Digital Library partnership in 2018, and reflecting on a decade of Dryad’s existence, we have spent time exploring what it means to remain a community-owned data publishing platform. By convening publishers, institutions, and other scholarly communications stakeholders to […]
csv,conf,v4: call for proposals
Although a ubiquitous term, the acronym CSV has varied meanings depending on who you ask. In the data space, CSV often translates to comma-separated values – a machine-readable data format used to store tabular data in plain text. To many, the format represents simplicity, interoperability, compactness, hackability, among other things. From when it first launched […]
Community-Owned Data Publishing Infrastructure
As a library community, we continue to struggle to find scalable approaches to offering open, shared, sustainable scholarly infrastructure. This is especially true in the data publishing and research data management space where institution-focused approaches to capturing and curating data may be hindering our ability to grow adoption by our researchers. To alleviate this impasse […]
PIDapalooza 2019 – are you ready to rock!?!
Yes, it’s back and – with your support – it’s going to be better than ever! The third annual PIDapalooza open festival of persistent identifiers will take place at the Griffith Conference Centre, Dublin, Ireland on January 23-24, 2019 – and we hope you’ll join us there! Hosted, once again, by California Digital Library, Crossref, […]