(10 February 2014) The largest North American data repository, the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), has registered about 20,000 objects via da|ra, the German DOI service provider for social and economic data. Thanks to the cooperation between CrossRef, CNRI and DataCite the change from CrossRef to DataCite services was completed successfully. As…
(7 February 2014) The European Commission has awarded GBP6m to archiving and digital preservation specialists to create E-ARK, a revolutionary method of archiving data that is set to become the gold standard across Europe. The system will ensure that current digital archives, including ‘big data,’ are future-proofed. (Big data is data sets of such a…
(7 February 2014) The University of Sydney has a new Research Data Management Policy. It includes an electronic lab notebooks service, a research data store and data management guidelines. The Research Data Management policy sets out the responsibilities of the University, Faculty representatives and individual researchers with regard to the management, storage, retention and ownership of…
By Brianna Marshall, Katherine O’Bryan, Na Qin, and Rebecca Vernon Librarians are increasingly expected to work with researchers to organize and store large amounts of data. In this case study, data management novices undertake responsibility for a legacy public health research dataset. The steps taken to understand and manage the legacy dataset are explained. As…
(15 January 2014) Open data has become one of the central topics of IT policy in Japan. Since the adoption of the e-government Open Data Strategy in July 2012, national and local governments have made great steps forward in this area and the government launched an open data portal in December 2013: “Data.go.jp”, in beta…
(23 January 2014) Developed with the aim of helping to plot a path for all European universities who wish to make their data open and available for reuse, the Roadmap makes a series of recommendations targeted at institutional leadership, support services and European policy makers. Read the complete article by Susan Reilly who represents LIBER,…
The January 2014 issue of D-Lib Magazine is devoted to the new Research Data Alliance. The contents include: Special Issue on the Research Data Alliance Editorial by Laurence Lannom, Corporation for National Research Initiatives Building Global Infrastructure for Data Sharing and Exchange Through the Research Data Alliance Guest Editorial by Fran Berman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Ross…
(14 January 2014) Fudan University, Coursera’s 108th partnern located in Shanghai has some 2,600 full-time professors and researchers and 35,000 on-campus students. Fudan will offer a range of courses beginning with “Big Data and Information Dissemination” taught by Professor Cheng Shian in Fudan’s School of Journalism. This course will explore the science of communication using…
The National Diet Library (NDL) Japan, has invited Dr. Peter Loewe, Head of Development, German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), to an international symposium on 5 February at the NDL, Tokyo. Dr. Loewe will give a lecture on the current status of research data management in the TIB and Germany. The NDL has…
(10 January 2014) CAUL has published a list of resources describing projects, publications and websites on library data and text mining. Peruse it here. If the value and impact of university libraries is more your thing, there’s a list for that too describing conferences, projects, publications, websites and websites. Click here to view.
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