(14 May 2014) Macquarie University has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: Seeding the Commons at Macquarie University. ANDS is the Australian National Data Service. The project created authoritative information about research data management for researchers and research support staff including A Data Management Plan Template and Standards and tools to assist researchers to describe and…
This webinar, “Becoming a data librarian – everything you wanted to know …” on 13 May 2014, 12.00am to 1.00pm Australian Eastern Standard Time, acknowledges that for many librarians, data management is likely to become a component of their role. So, what do these roles involve? What challenges and opportunities does data management offer librarians?…
(1 April 2014) The Data Citation Principles establish guiding principles for data within scholarly literature, another dataset, or any other research object. These principles recognize the need for citation practices that are both human understandable and machine-actionable. DataCite and its members understand that the eight principles are perfectly in line with the scope and the…
(27 March 2014) Following the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Research Data Alliance (RDA) DataCite will become an organizational affiliate of RDA. As defined by the RDA Organizational Member Process Document, RDA Affiliates are likeminded organizations that seek to coordinate efforts in mutual areas of interest and to avoid unnecessary duplication…
(25 March 2014) Databib and “re3data.org – Registry of Research Data Repositories” are pleased to announce their plan to merge their two projects into one service that will be managed under the auspices of DataCite by the end of 2015. Their joint proposal to the DataCite General Assembly was approved today, in advance of the…
(24 March 2014) The week-long course at the University of Essex, UK, is offered under the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program. Dates are 28 July to 1 August 2014. This workshop, taught by Louise Corti (UK Data Archive), Jared Lyle (ICPSR), and Veerle Van den Eynden (UK Data Archive), will…
(21 March 2014) From civic engagement to public health and traffic planning, Big Data – also known as the massive quantities of information about people and their daily interactions arising from multimedia, social media and the internet – can produce a paradigm shift in how cities better organise themselves and improve the quality of life…
(10 Mar 2014) The 2014 General Assembly and Annual Conference will be held in Tokyo at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation on 18-21 October, and will be hosted by JST, the Japan Science and Technology Agency. The National Diet Library, National Institute of Informatics, and National Association of Information Professionals are developing…
Win a £2,000 cash prize Around £3 billion of Government funding is apportioned annually between the seven UK Research Councils. This investment creates a huge amount of information, which is held in the ‘Gateway to Research’ database and available for anyone to access online. But how can people make sense of this mass of complex…
The Open Data Institute wants to know how opening up data impacts those in developing countries. The Partnership for Open Data (POD) is a partnership of institutions to research and promote open data in the context of low and middle income countries. It invites stories about the impact of open data in developing countries be…
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