Just before the holidays, I managed to finish the first version of the DCXL requirements. These requirements are the set of Excel capabilities that scientists…
What Scientists Want: Requirements Part 1
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Just before the holidays, I managed to finish the first version of the DCXL requirements. These requirements are the set of Excel capabilities that scientists…
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In my speaking with scientists about data management, I often talk about how they organize their work files on their computers. Asking someone about this…
Back in October, the National Science Foundation announced changes to its Grant Proposal Guidelines (Full GPG for January 2013 here). I blogged about this back when the announcement was…
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Ontologies is one of those words I hear people toss about in conversations about computing, programming, and development. I usually nod and smile, pretending I know…
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With the clarity of the New Year, I realized I broke a promise to you DCXL readers… in my post on data policies, I stated…
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If you are like me, you begrudgingly read Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey in high school, but remember very little. I would like to remind you…
Unless you live in a cave, you are probably aware that NSF started requiring that researchers submit a two-page supplement to all proposals titled “Data…
Recently, I found myself wondering What the heck is data governance? I was asked to participate in a workshop on Data Governance, supported by DataONE…
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The concept of data publication is rather simple in theory: rather than relying on journal articles alone for scholarly communication, let’s publish data sets as…
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This past week, 20,000 Earth scientists gathered in San Francisco for the American Geophysical Union’s Fall 2011 Meeting. Like most conference attendees, I had grand plans…