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Webinar Series on Data Management & DMPTool

By Carly Strasser On 16 May 2013 · Add Comment · In Best practices, Data Management Planning
One of the services we run at the California Digital Library is the DMPTool – this is an online tool that helps researchers create data management plans by guiding them through a series of prompts based on funder requirements. The tool provides resources and help in the form of links, help text, and suggested answers. [...]
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The Very Large Array, near Soccoro NM. This was the best workshop field trip EVER. CC-BY, Carly Strasser

Large Facilities & the Data they Produce

By Carly Strasser On 1 May 2013 · Add Comment · In Data Sharing, Meetings & Conferences, Open Access etc.
Last week I spent three days in the desert, south of Albuquerque, at the NSF Large Facilities Workshop. What are these “large facilities”, you ask? I did too… this was a new world for me, but the workshop ended up being a great learning experience. The NSF has a Large Facilities Office within the Office of [...]
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Yes, I know. Frankenstein was the doctor, not the monster. From Flickr by Chop Shop Garage.

Closed Data… Excuses, Excuses

By Carly Strasser On 24 April 2013 · 5 Comments · In Data Sharing, Open Access etc.
If you are a fan of data sharing, open data, open science, and generally openness in research, you’ve heard them all: excuses for keeping data out of the public domain. If you are NOT a fan of openness, you should be. For both groups (the fans and the haters), I’ve decided to construct a “Frankenstein monster” [...]
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Scaled map of the world based on book publishing. From Digital Book World via Atlantic Wire.

The Who’s Who of Publishing Research

By Carly Strasser On 10 April 2013 · Add Comment · In Current Events, Data Sharing, Meetings & Conferences, Open Access etc.
This week’s blog post is a bit more of a Sociology of science topic… Perhaps only marginally related to the usual content surrounding data, but still worth consideration. I recently heard a talk by Laura Czerniewicz, from University of Cape Town’s Centre for Educational Technology. She was among the speakers  during the Context session at Beyond the [...]
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Let's hope this doesn't become the uniform of academic librarians.

Libraries & the Future of Scholarly Communication at #BTPDF2

By Carly Strasser On 26 March 2013 · Add Comment · In Current Events, Libraries, Meetings & Conferences
Last week I attended the Beyond the PDF 2 Meeting, sponsored by FORCE11.  For those unaware of BTPDF2, it’s a spinoff event from the Beyond the PDF meeting, which took place in San Diego a few years back. BTPDF2 was a meeting of the minds for digital scholarship, with representatives from publishing, libraries, academia, software development, and everything in [...]
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A digital humanities finding: mummies had atherosclerosis. Read more from NPR by clicking on this photo.  Image from Flickr by Brooklyn Museum

Thoughts on Digital Humanities

By Carly Strasser On 19 March 2013 · 1 Comment · In Current Events
This week I’m lucky enough to be in Amsterdam for the Beyond the PDF 2 Meeting, sponsored by FORCE11.  I’m sure I will be blogging about this meeting for weeks to come, however something came up today that has me inspired to do a blog post: digital humanities. For those unaware of BTPDF2, it’s a [...]
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Navigating metadata is hard. We need better tools and advice. Original image (Rembrandt's Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee) from Wikipedia.

Wanted: Better Tools and Websites for Data Management Help

By Carly Strasser On 6 March 2013 · 9 Comments · In Data Management Planning, Tools for Data
The Digital Curation Centre, based in the UK, has a handy section of their website on Disciplinary Metadata Standards. I was pretty darn excited to see that they took on the onerous task of helping researchers navigate the dark and stormy waters of metadata. I tweeted about it  earlier this week and had big plans for [...]
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Hopefully the teeth in this new OSTP memo won't be slowed down by its tiny arms. From Flickr by Hammerhead27

The New OSTP Policy & What it Means

By Carly Strasser On 28 February 2013 · Add Comment · In Current Events, Data Sharing, Open Access etc.
Last week, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) responded to calls for broader access to federally funded research. I was curious as to whether this policy had any teeth, so I actually read the official memorandum. Here I summarize and have a few thoughts. The overall theme of the document is best [...]
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Not teaching undergrads about how to handle data properly is like sending them into the bathroom stall with no TP. Prepare them! From Flickr by PDXdj

Data Management Education: Part 2

By Carly Strasser On 14 February 2013 · Add Comment · In Best practices, Data literacy
Last week on Data Pub, I provided the impetus for my latest publication with co-author Stephanie Hampton in Ecosphere about data management education (available on the Ecosphere site). The manuscript is the result of my postdoctoral work with theDataONE organization. The question that spawned the research? Whatever happened to the lab notebook? This query resulted in a survey of whether [...]
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Besides the obvious social norms... what are undergrads learning at college?

Data Management Education?

By Carly Strasser On 7 February 2013 · 1 Comment · In Best practices, Data literacy
Back in December, I published a paper in the open access journal Ecosphere about data management education (available on the Ecosphere site). The manuscript is the result of my postdoctoral work with the DataONE organization, advised by Stephanie Hampton at NCEAS. When I started working with Steph, she posed an interesting question: Whatever happened to the [...]
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    • Webinar Series on Data Management & DMPTool 16 May 2013
    • Large Facilities & the Data they Produce 1 May 2013
    • Closed Data… Excuses, Excuses 24 April 2013
    • The Who’s Who of Publishing Research 10 April 2013
    • Libraries & the Future of Scholarly Communication at #BTPDF2 26 March 2013
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