This post is authored by Eric Kansa There is a great deal of interest in the sciences and humanities around how to manage “data.” By…
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Last week the DCXL crew worked on finishing up the metadata schema that we will implement in the DCXL project. WAIT! Keep reading! I know…
Popular Demand for Public Data
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When talking about data publication, many of us get caught up in protracted conversations aimed at carefully anticipating and building solutions for every possible permutation…
Data Citation Redux
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I know what faithful DCXL readers are thinking: didn’t you already post about data citation? (For the unfaithful among you, check out this post from…
The Future of Metrics in Science
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Ask any researcher what they need for tenure, and the answer is virtually the same across institutions and disciplines: publications. The “publish or perish” model has…
This post was co-authored by Dr. Michael Weiner, CIND director at UCSF The DataShare project is a collaboration between University of California San Francisco’s Clinical…
Survey says…
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A few weeks ago we reached out to the scientific community for help on the direction of the DCXL project. The major issue at hand…
Data Publishing–the First 500 Years
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Data publishing is the new hot topic in a growing number of academic communities. The scholarly ecosophere is filled with listserv threads, colloquia and conference…
The Science of the DeepSea Challenge
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Recently the film director and National Geographic explorer-in-residence James Cameron descended to the deepest spot on Earth: the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. He partnered…