Data Publication
How To Link Dash Data Publications With Your ORCiD Profile
Dash, the data publishing platform, is integrated with ORCiD, an author disambiguation service in a couple of different ways: you can login to Dash with ORCiD, and you (and co-authors) can display your ORCiD on dataset landing pages. But, let’s take a step back. What is an ORCiD? It is a unique identifier for you […]
Dash Releases First Submission REST API
Over the last year the Dash team has spent time surveying the community on incentives for and ways to drive adoption of data publishing practices. Lots of barriers have been around the ease of submitting data and that data publishing is outside of the status quo research workflows. To try and aid with this, the […]
We Are Talking Loudly and No One Is Listening
By Daniella Lowenberg “Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told to us” — Alice Duer Miller A couple of months ago I wrote about how we need to be advocating for data sharing and data management with more […]
Dash: 2017 in Review
The goal for Dash in 2017 was to build out features that would make Dash a desirable place to publish data. While we continue to work with the research community to find incentives to publish data generally, the small team of us working on Dash wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who published […]
Test-driving the Dash read-only API
The Dash Data Publication service is now allowing access to dataset metadata and public files through a read-only API. This API focuses on allowing metadata access through a RESTful API. Documentation is available at https://dash.ucop.edu/api/docs/index.html. There are a number of ways to test out and access this API such as through programming language libraries or […]
Where’s the adoption? Shifting the Focus of Data Publishing in 2018
By Daniella Lowenberg At RDA10 in Montreal I gave a presentation on Dash in the Repository Platforms for Research Data IG session. The session was focused on backend technology and technology communities for repository platforms. I talked a bit about the Dash open source software and features but walked away thinking “How productive is it […]
Dash Updates: Fall, 2017
Throughout the summer the Dash team has focused on features that better integrate with researcher workflows. The goal: make data publishing as easy as possible. With that, here are the releases now up on the Dash site. Please feel free to use our demo site dashdemo.ucop.edu to test features and practice submitting data. Dash enabled […]