Last week I attended the TOS/ASLO/AGU Ocean Sciences 2012 Meeting in Salt Lake City. (If you are a DCXL blog regular, you know I was…
Oceanographers: Why So Shy?
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Archiving Your Life: PDA 2012 Meeting
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I’m currently sitting in a church. No, I’m not being disrespectful and blogging while at church. Technically, I’m in a former church, in the Richmond…
SOS to Scientists: Help!
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We are in the final stages of deciding how to proceed with the DCXL project, and we are still unsure what will work best for…
What’s the Deal with .xlsx?
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A few years back, Microsoft Excel started automatically saving my spreadsheet files with the extensions .xlsx. I first noticed it when I got a new…
If you missed it, I recently posted about the future direction of the DCXL project. I boiled it down to the question of Add-in versus…
A powerful tool for working with messy data. This is the tag line for Google Refine, a web-based application that can be used to manipulate…
I recently updated this site with a page listing the DCXL Requirements. These five requirements are the basic feature set and capabilities we would like…
I’m guilty. I often admit this when I meet librarians at conferences and workshops – I’m guilty of never using my librarians as a resource…
What Scientists Want: Requirements Part 3
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I’m in the process of posting the requirements we are submitting for the DCXL add-in, in four parts. “Requirements” are the capabilities we want the…
What Scientists Want: Requirements Part 2
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I’m in the process of posting the requirements we are submitting for the DCXL add-in. These are the capabilities we want the proposed add-in to…