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Seven Predictions

In a tradition as old as blogs, I’m summarizing here what someone else wrote up and put on the internet. In my defense, it is pretty good stuff that certainly didn’t get enough attention from what I can tell. Hopefully this post will remedy the situation. The piece I’m reporting on comes from the JISC organization. JISC (formerly […]

A Potpourri of DC Meetings

I’ve been in our nation’s capital since Sunday for three meetings, all while battling a particularly tenacious cold.  I’m using this post as a debrief, as well as to tell you about a few nifty projects. First, the University of North Texas folks put on a symposium about the DataRes Project.  UNT librarians are quite […]

A brief thought: What is E-Science?

I’m not sure when I first heard the term “E-Science”, but it wasn’t that long ago. My first impression was that it sounds like one of those words that should be unsucked (i.e., jargon). Now that I know more about it, I’m inclined to think that jargon is in the ear of the beholder. Here’s […]

Thanks in Advance For Sharing Your Data

It’s American Thanksgiving this week, which means that hall traffic at your local university is likely to dwindle down to zero by Wednesday afternoon.  Because it’s a short week, this is a short post.  I wanted to briefly touch on data sharing policies in journals. Will you be required to share your data next time […]

Good DMP Examples + Going Beyond Two Pages

Did you know that data management plans existed before the NSF started requiring them?? I know, it’s shocking. But they have inherent value despite their being relatively unknown to researchers until now. Proper, thorough data management plans (DMPs) are potentially a major time saver and a huge asset for the project.  Funders tend to have […]

Looking for a Postdoc: Data Publication

Do you love all things data? Do you think data should be considered as important as traditional scholarly publications? We do here at CDL, and we are searching for a postdoc to work on the concept of data publication and what it may entail.  This person should have a background in data-rich research (e.g., natural […]

Open Up

Open Access Week came and went last week, and I marked the event on the blog with a post on Open Access.  But the Open movement goes far beyond just Open Access: there are lots of different flavors of open, with a select few explored in this post. First let’s start with Open Notebook Science. This concept […]

Three Cheers for Open Access!

If you weren’t aware, this week is Open Access Week.  The word open gets used quite a bit these days… like open notebooks, open science, open source, open content, open access, open data, open government, open repositories, and open knowledge. If you are not sure what all the hoopla is about, read on. Note: I will talk about […]

Provenance at the #MSeScience Workshop

Last week some pretty fabulous speakers congregated in Chicago for the Microsoft eScience Workshop, which was scheduled to coincide with the 2012 IEEE eScience Workshop (IEEE stands for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, but their conference has evolved into a general tech conference).  Having never attended either conference, I wasn’t sure what to expect.  I was […]

Data to Receive Recognition from NSF

This week, the National Science Foundation announced changes to its Grant Proposal Guidelines (Full GPG for January 2013 here).  Included in this list is something that has me pretty jazzed about the future of research data. The biosketch section of the proposal is a place where the proposal’s researchers describe their background and why they are […]