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November 30, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
Some people watch football over Thanksgiving weekend; I get into discussions of disciplinary data regimes with fellow SciBling Christina and others on FriendFeed. Judge me if you must! Another common truism in both the repository and data-management fields is that...
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November 28, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Metablogging
Book of Trogool has just been added to Planet Code4Lib, a library-technology blog reader. I am of course honored to be in some very fine company. I have a mixed readership here: librarians, technology pros, researchers from several disciplines. I...
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November 24, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Praxis
Another case of things connecting up oddly in my head— "How do we know whether a dataset is any good?" is a vexed question in this space. Because the academy is accustomed to answering quality questions with peer review, peer...
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Dorothea Salo
Category: Praxis
Some interesting ferment happening in repository-land, notably this discussion of various types and scales of repositories and how successful they can expect to be given the structural conditions in which they are embedded. I don't blog repositories per se any...
Posted 5:07 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
November 20, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tidbits
Have some Friday tidbits! An important biology dataset is losing NSF funding and may fold. Nor (as the article explains) is it the only one. It is impossible to overstate the desperate gravity of the data-sustainability question. Academic libraries, if...
Posted 4:18 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
November 17, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
It can be difficult to convince present-focused researchers to give a long-term perspective, such as that of a librarian or archivist, the time of day. (So to speak.) Here's my favorite way to do it: the "… and then what?"...
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November 16, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Metablogging
I got a very nice email the other day thanking me for being a clearinghouse for e-research information. I'm not quite sure I am that, but just in case I've become it without noticing… What I read in the area...
Posted 5:11 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
BMC Bioinformatics published this article describing a "data publishing framework" for biodiversity data. Stripped to its essentials, this article is about carrots for data sharing. Acknowledging that cultural inertia (some of it well-founded) militates against spontaneous data sharing, the authors...
Posted 4:44 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 13, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tidbits
By way of amplifying the signal: the 5th International Digital Curation Conference is coming up in London in December. I will be there in spirit only, I fear, but I hope there will be a Twitter hashtag I can follow?...
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November 12, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Miscellanea
This is a pushmi-pullyu post. I need some help with an environmental scan, so I'll get us started and the rest of you smart folks can amplify my knowledge. I want to understand what's going on where with data curation...
Posted 5:21 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
