I know what you’re thinking– how can yet another post on the #PLOSfail hoopla say anything new? Fear not. I say nothing particularly new here,…
UC3 :: California Digital Library Posts
This post is by Natsuko Nicholls and John Kratz. Natsuko is a CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for the Sciences and Social Sciences at…
Institutional Repositories: Part 2
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A few weeks back I wrote a post describing institutional repositories (IRs for short). IRs have been around for a while, with the impetus of making…
Today, we’re opening a survey of researcher perceptions and practices around data publication. Why are you doing a survey? The term “Data publication” applies language…
My picks for #AGU13
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Next week, the city of San Francisco will be overrun with nerds. More specifically,more than 22,000 geophysicists, oceanographers, geologists, seismologists, meteorologists, and volcanologists will be…
What we’re doing: Some time next year, the CDL will start an experiment in data publication. Our version of data publication will look like lightweight,…
Researchers – get your ORCID
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Yesterday I remotely joined a lab meeting at my old stomping grounds, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. My former advisor, Mike Neubert, asked me to join his…
Two Altmetrics Workshops in San Francisco
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Last week, a group forward-thinking individuals interested in measuring scholarly impact gathered at Fort Mason in San Francisco to talk about altmetrics. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funded the…
Data Citation Developments
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Citation is a defining feature of scholarly publication and if we want to say that a dataset has been published, we have to be able…
RDA Meeting Part 2: The Meeting in DC
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In last week’s post, I outlined the basic structure of the Research Data Alliance, a group intent on enabling international data sharing and collaboration. I…