November 4, 2009 – 10:14 am
nbsp;http://www.dcc.ac.uk/docs/publications/c…
This study highlights choice in how to provide for appropriate care of digital objects, choice in digital curation treatments, as a means of promoting more effective current and future architectural practice and research. The digital assets produced by use of digital tools and from digital methods of working in the teaching, learning, research and practice [...]
November 4, 2009 – 9:38 am
nbsp;http://www.dcc.ac.uk/tools/daf/
The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is delighted to announce the release of a new Implementation Guide to using the Data Audit/Asset Framework (DAF). The guide collates lessons learned during the DAF pilot studies undertaken in 2008-2009, and includes practical usage tips, sample questionnaires and interview frameworks.
The guide is now available from both [...]
November 3, 2009 – 12:20 pm
nbsp;http://www.ands.org.au/guides/copyright-…
This guide is relevant to those who deal with data, including researchers who generate or compile data, database/repository
managers who store, manage and retrieve data, and users who access and use data.
from ANDS website
November 2, 2009 – 1:35 pm
nbsp;http://ands.org.au/infrastructure.html
In the recent Federal budget ANDS was allocated $48 million from the Education Investment Fund (EIF) to create and develop an Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) research infrastructure. Over the last few months ANDS has been consulting with major stakeholders across the sector on the final form that this project will take.
The consultation process was [...]
October 19, 2009 – 1:22 pm
nbsp;http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/coll…
You can download the whole book, or individual sections or subsections. The book, edited by Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley and Kirstin Tolle, is being released in conjunction with the Microsoft E-science meeting currently being held at Carnegie-Mellon University.
The book is dedicated to the memory of Jim Gray and explores his intellectual legacy in Earth and [...]
October 15, 2009 – 10:22 am
The completed response from the eCrystals repository at the University of Southampton to the KRDS2 Survey has been added to the project webpage at http://www.beagrie.com/jisc.php
So far around 12 organisations from the UK and internationally have responded to the Survey. The eCystals response has been added to the project webpage as an exemplar for those [...]
October 15, 2009 – 9:42 am
nbsp;http://www.ands.edu.au/guides/index.html
This guide is relevant to those who deal with data, including researchers who generate or compile data, database/repository managers who store, manage and retrieve data, and users who access and use data. ‘Data’ is used here in a broad sense, as including datasets from observations, investigations, instruments, surveys, statistical data, metadata, recordings, images, video, software [...]
October 8, 2009 – 1:04 pm
nbsp;http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterk…
Rensselaer Researchers to Create Semantic Web Platforms for Massive Scientific Collaboration
The Semantic Web technology being creating in the Tetherless World Research Constellation will allow scientists, educators, and people around the world to access data on a variety of topics all in one place, bringing together scientific data in unprecedented ways. Represented here are just some [...]
October 8, 2009 – 10:15 am
nbsp;http://ands.org.au/guides/data-citation-…
This guide is intended for eResearch infrastructure support providers and researchers. It is not so much a guide to how to cite data, but a guide to the issues around it, and activities underway to change the culture around data citation in order to support improved data management and sharing.
from ANDS
September 11, 2009 – 8:44 am
nbsp;http://www.nature.com/news/specials/data…
Sharing data is good. But sharing your own data? That can get complicated. As two research communities who held meetings in May on the issue report their proposals to promote data sharing in biology, a special issue of Nature examines the cultural and technical hurdles that can get in the way of good intentions.
A Nature [...]
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