Category: UC3

Last week, folks from DataONE gathered in Berkeley to discuss sustainability (new to DataONE? Read my post about it). Of course, lots of people are…

How do we go about measuring the health of complex ecosystems, especially with humans – the ultimate complicating factor?  We use good data and smart…

Seeing the acronym SXSW is likely to elicit one of two responses: (1) Huh? or (2) OMGOMGOMG!! If you are in the former camp, rest…

<a href=”http://datapub.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/img_0502.jpg”><img class=”alignleft wp-image-1037″ title=”IMG_0502″ src=”http://datapub.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/img_0502.jpg?w=1024&h=1024″ alt=”” width=”368″ height=”368″ /></a>I’m spending this week in Portland to attend the <a href=”http://esa.org/portland/” target=”_blank”>Ecological Society of America’s annual…

It was one year ago today that I moved up to the Bay Area to work on DataUp (then DCXL) in earnest.  It seems fitting…

At long last, DataONE has gone live.  For veterans of the DCXL/DataUp blog, you are probably well aware of the DataONE organization and project, but…

This past Sunday and Monday, DataONE had their annual Users Group Meeting (DUG) in Madison, WI. The meeting is a chance for librarians, information specialists,…

Thanks to DataONE‘s own Amber Budden for passing along this gem.  It starts getting good around the one minute mark. Enjoy! [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtKADQnjQmc?rel=0&w=420&h=315]

One of my UC3 colleagues is at the Open Repositories 2012 Meeting (#OR2012) in Edinburgh, Scotland this week.  This prompted me to ask two questions: (1) What does…

Happy Independence Day (Americans) and a belated Happy Canada Day (Canadians)!  We are smack dab in the middle of the lazy days of summer, which…