At risk of sounding like a motivational speaker, this is such an exciting time to be involved in science and research. We are swimming in…
Data Diversity is Okay
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The only constant is change. —Heraclitus Data publication, management, and citation would all be so much easier if data never changed, or at least, if…
Trailblazers in Demography
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Last week I had the great pleasure of visiting Rostock, Germany. If your geography lessons were a long time ago, you are probably wondering “where’s…
DataCite Metadata Schema update
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This spring, work is underway on a new version of the DataCite metadata schema. DataCite is a worldwide consortium founded in 2009 dedicated to…
QSE3, IGERT, OA and DCXL
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A few months back I received an invite to visit the University of Florida in sunny Gainesville. The invite was from organizers of an annual…
EZID, the easy long-term identifier service, just got a new look. EZID lets you create and maintain ARKs and DataCite Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), and…
Data Policies & Other Things
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Last Friday I attended a seminar at UC Berkeley’s iSchool given by MacKenzie Smith, a terrific presenter and colleague who is affiliated with Creative Commons (among…
This post was contributed by Lisa Federer, Health and Life Sciences Librarian at UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library In my previous life as an…