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September 29, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Metablogging
A comment Chris Rusbridge left on a previous post leads me to clarify the extent to which the subject matter of this blog draws on my own position in the institution where I work, and that institution's take on matters...
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Dorothea Salo
Category: Praxis
One of the problems practically every nascent data-curation effort will have to deal with is what serials librarians call the backfile, though the rest of us use the blunter word backlog. There's a lot of digital data (let's not even...
Posted 5:11 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 25, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Praxis
Sometimes it's worthwhile to let my "toblog" folder on del.icio.us marinate a bit. Posts I recently ran across on two different blogs illuminate the same point so well that they deserve their own post here! Off the Map offers Huffman's...
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September 24, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Miscellanea
I know I said I'd be neglecting the place for a bit… but I still feel bad about that! Here's what I've been working on. I'm afraid this is sort of the Cliff's Notes version, but at least it looks...
Posted 5:37 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 19, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
In many of the data-curation talks and discussions I've attended, a distinction has been drawn between Big Science and small science, the latter sometimes being lumped with humanities research. I'm not sure this distinction completely holds up in practice—are the...
Posted 5:03 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 17, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
I commented here earlier, not without frustration, about a pair of researchers who built and abandoned a disciplinary repository. I was particularly annoyed that they seemed to have done this purely for self-aggrandizement, apparently feeling no particular attachment to the...
Posted 5:04 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 16, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tidbits
The Book of Trogool turns another page... Social scientists and medical researchers, pay attention to this: "Anonymized" data really isn't—and here's why not. If informaticists aren't starting to run similar analyses on their own "anonymized" data, they should be. This...
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September 14, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Praxis
When I was but grasshopper-knee tall, my father the anthropologist took me to his university's library to help him locate and photocopy articles in his area of study for his files. He had two or three file cabinets full of...
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September 11, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
Many doctoral institutions now accept and archive (or are planning to accept and archive) theses and dissertations electronically. Virginia Tech pioneered this quite some time ago, and it has caught on slowly but steadily for reasons of cost, convenience, access,...
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Dorothea Salo
Category: Miscellanea
I wanted to call attention to this event at Harvard, which will be webcast live next Friday at 12:15 Central. The difficulties in combining data and information from distributed sources, the multi-disciplinary nature of research and collaboration, and the need...
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