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…
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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This past week, 20,000 Earth scientists gathered in San Francisco for the American Geophysical Union’s Fall 2011 Meeting. Like most conference attendees, I had grand plans…
Just in time for the holidays (and the AGU Fall 2011 Meeting)- a list of the overarching requirements we are working on for the Excel…
Over the last couple of months I have seen a lot of scientists’ Excel spreadsheets. Approximately 150 spreadsheets, to be exact. All of this important…