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…
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What Scientists Want: Requirements Part 3
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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…
What Scientists Want: Requirements Part 2
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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…
What Scientists Want: Requirements Part 1
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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…
The NeverEnding Task: Organizing Files
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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 and Data
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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…
NSF Panel Review of Data Management Plans
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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…
What You and Odysseus Have in Common
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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…