This post was co-authored by Stephen Abrams. So 30 coders walk into a conference center in Oakland… No, it’s not a bad joke in need of a punch line, it…
The First UC Libraries Code Camp
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DataCite Meeting in Nancy, France
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Last week I took a lovely train ride through the cow-dotted French countryside to attend the 2014 DataCite Annual Conference. The event was held at…
Sharing is caring, but should it count?
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The following is a guest post by Shea Swauger, Data Management Librarian at Colorado State University. Shea and I both participated in a meeting for the Colorado Alliance…
Unicorn Data Sharing
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A few years ago I created a little video about data sharing using an online application called Xtranormal. Alas, the application has gone bust and and…
It takes a data management village
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A couple of weeks ago, information scientists, librarians, social scientists, and their compatriots gathered in Toronto for the 2014 IASSIST meeting. IASSIST is, of course,…
Many open issues drift around data publication, but validation is both the biggest and the haziest. Some form of validation at some stage in a…
Git/GitHub: A Primer for Researchers
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I might be what a guy named Everett Rogers would call an “early adopter“. Rogers wrote a book back in 1962 call The Diffusion of Innovation,…
Big thanks to Kara Woo of Washington State University for this guest blog post! Update: The XLConnect package has been updated to fix the problem described below;…
Feedback Wanted: Publishers & Data Access
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This post is co-authored with Jennifer Lin, PLOS Short Version: We need your help! We have generated a set of recommendations for publishers to help increase access to…
Mountain Observatories in Reno
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A few months ago, I blogged about my experiences at the NSF Large Facilities Workshop. “Large Facilities” encompass things like NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network), IRIS PASSCAL Instrument…