At risk of veering off course of this blog’s typical topics, I am going to post about tweeting. This topic is timely given my previous…
Tweeting for Science
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We at University of California Curation Center (UC3) are very interested in engaging in the conversations happening about data. The purpose of this blog is…
Archiving Your Life: PDA 2012 Meeting
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I’m currently sitting in a church. No, I’m not being disrespectful and blogging while at church. Technically, I’m in a former church, in the Richmond…
SOS to Scientists: Help!
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We are in the final stages of deciding how to proceed with the DCXL project, and we are still unsure what will work best for…
What’s the Deal with .xlsx?
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A few years back, Microsoft Excel started automatically saving my spreadsheet files with the extensions .xlsx. I first noticed it when I got a new…
If you missed it, I recently posted about the future direction of the DCXL project. I boiled it down to the question of Add-in versus…
A powerful tool for working with messy data. This is the tag line for Google Refine, a web-based application that can be used to manipulate…
I recently updated this site with a page listing the DCXL Requirements. These five requirements are the basic feature set and capabilities we would like…
I’m guilty. I often admit this when I meet librarians at conferences and workshops – I’m guilty of never using my librarians as a resource…