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December 31, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tidbits
Wishing all of us a happy, prosperous, data-filled 2010. Unfortunately behind paywall: Nature says (rightly) that it's not quite as simple as "throw the data out there." Combining datasets carelessly may magnify faults in the original, eliminate crucial explanatory variables,...
Posted 1:38 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
December 29, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Praxis
I wrote last week about name authority control for authors. I hinted that systems are coming. I hope that journals, databases, catalogues, and repositories adopt them when they emerge, the sooner the better. Even when they do, though, there's an...
Posted 5:28 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
December 28, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
As I watch the environment around me for signs of data curation inside institutions, particularly in libraries, I seem to see two general classes of approach to the problem. One starts institution-wide, generally with a grand planning process. Another starts...
Posted 4:56 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 22, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tidbits
Every time I do a tidbits post, I think to myself, "gosh, that was a lot of tidbits; I'll never fill up the queue again." Every time, I'm wrong. The climate-data scandal staggers on: Gavin Baker has another great summary...
Posted 5:18 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 18, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Jargon
Since the end of the year is a fairly quiet time for my particular professional niche, I've taken the opportunity to do some basic name authority control on author name-strings in the repository. Some basic what on what, now? Welcome...
Posted 4:47 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 14, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Praxis
A common response, including in the comments at Book of Trogool, to raising digital-preservation issues is a chortle of "Guess print doesn't seem so bad now! Let's just print everything out, and then we'll be fine!" Leaving aside my own...
Posted 12:53 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 9, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tidbits
I'm at home today owing to last night's epic snowfall in Madison shutting down practically the entire university, so it's time for tidbits! The biggest data story of the week is the climate-data hijacking. Gavin Baker has the best roundup...
Posted 10:50 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 8, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Praxis
The latest issue of the International Journal of Digital Curation is out; if you're in this space and not at least watching the RSS feed for this journal, you should be. I was scanning this article on Georgia Tech's libraries'...
Posted 5:19 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 7, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
This is the question I was asking myself while reading this fairly straightforward paper on open access in high-energy physics (hat tip to Garret McMahon). It's impossible to be in my particular professional specialty and not know about the trajectory...
Posted 5:16 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 4, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Praxis
There have been a number of piercing calls for training of data professionals (of various stripes) in the last year or so. Schools of information have been answering: Illinois, North Carolina, others. Honestly, I'm getting a sinking feeling in my...
Posted 5:23 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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