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ANDS & the DCC

16 April, 2012

After giving a presentation on DMP Online at the Future Perfect conference, Martin and I visited ANDS staff in the Canberra and Mebourne offices. We had some great discussions, sharing common ground and learning from each other's lessons.

IDCC11 Session 3B: Environmental data

9 December, 2011

The presentations in this session looked at different aspects of data creation, storage, and sharing in environmental research. A significant theme was the need to encourage data sharing by researchers by providing them with suitable rewards.

Researcher perspectives at #idcc11

7 December, 2011

Summary of presentations in the researcher perspectives session at #idcc11

Give Researchers Credit for All of Their Research

Mark Hahnel, FigShare, Digital Science

Reproducible Research

Victoria Stodden, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Columbia University

Data Use Attribution and Impact Tracking

Heather Piwowar, DataONE post doc with NESCent

Photo (c) Tim Gander

Workshops prior to the International Digital Curation Conference

18 November, 2009

Pre-conference workshops can be very useful and interesting; they can be a good part of the justification for attending a conference, giving an extended opportunity to focus on a single topic, followed by a broader (but shallower) look at many topics, at the conference itself. This time it is quite frustrating, as I would very much like to go to all the workshops! There is still time to register for your choice, and for the IDCC conference itself.

IJDC Volume 4(1) was published

23 July, 2009

That's volume 4, issue 1 of the International Journal of Digital Curation... and I didn't report it here. My apologies for that. It's our biggest issue yet, with 10 peer-reviewed papers and 4 general articles, plus 2 editorials (a guest editorial from Malcolm Atkinson, and a normal one from me). There's some really interesting stuff, mostly from the Digital Curation Conference in Edinburgh last year.

Semantically richer PDF?

6 April, 2009

PDF is very important for the academic world, being the document format of choice for most journal publishers. Not everyone is happy about that, partly because reading page-oriented PDF documents on screen (especially that expletive-deleted double-column layout) can be a nightmare, but also because PDF documents can be a bit of a semantic desert. Yes, you can include links in modern PDFs, and yes, you can include some document or section metadata. But tagging the human-readable text with machine-readable elements remains difficult.

Wilbanks on the Control Fallacy: How Radical Sharing out-competes

8 December, 2008

Closing the first day of the International Digital Curation Conference, and as a prelude to a substantial audience discussion, John Wilbanks from Science Commons outlined his vision and his group’s plans and achievements. His slides are available on Slideshare and from the IDCC web site.

Project data life course

17 November, 2008

This blog post is an attempt to explore the “life course” of an arbitrary small to medium research project with respect to data resources involved in the project. (I want to avoid the term life cycle, since we use this in relation to the actual data.)

Some interesting posts elsewhere

5 November, 2008

I’m sorry for the gap in posting; I’ve been taking a couple of weeks of leave at the end of my trip to Australia. Since return I’ve been catching up on my blog reading, and there are some interesting posts around.

Many citations flow from data...

11 September, 2008

I've been at the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting in Edinburgh over the past few days (easy, since it's being held in the bulding in which I work!). Lots of interesting presentations; far too many to go to, let alone blog about. But I can't resist mentioning one short presentation (PPT), from Prof Michael Wilson of STFC. His pitch was simple: publishing data is good for your career, especially now. And he has evidence to back up his claims!