Category: UC3

I’m in the process of posting the requirements we are submitting for the DCXL add-in, in four parts.  “Requirements” are the capabilities we want the…

I’m in the process of posting the requirements we are submitting for the DCXL add-in.  These are the capabilities we want the proposed add-in to…

Just before the holidays, I managed to finish the first version of the DCXL requirements.  These requirements are the set of Excel capabilities that scientists…

In my speaking with scientists about data management, I often talk about how they organize their work files on their computers.  Asking someone about this…

Ontologies is one of those words I hear people toss about in conversations about computing, programming, and development. I usually nod and smile, pretending I know…

With the clarity of the New Year, I realized I broke a promise to you DCXL readers… in my post on data policies, I stated…

If you are like me, you begrudgingly read Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey in high school, but remember very little.  I would like to remind you…

Unless you live in a cave, you are probably aware that NSF started requiring that researchers submit a two-page supplement to all proposals titled “Data…

Recently, I found myself wondering What the heck is data governance?  I was asked to participate in a workshop on Data Governance, supported by DataONE…

The concept of data publication is rather simple in theory: rather than relying on journal articles alone for scholarly communication, let’s publish data sets as…