Tidbits
dsalo | August 14, 2009I am furloughed today and going out of town, so here, have an early tidbits post.
I won't be at the iPRES 2009 conference, but I do recommend looking over the program; it gives a pretty good overview of what digital preservationists think about and study, and what keeps them awake at night. (Midwesterners: the International Digital Curation Conference is coming to Chicago in 2010. I'll be there!)
The strength of weak ties: why Twitter matters to scholarly communication. Spot on, and true of FriendFeed as well. This is why, privacy concerns aside, the Facebook acquisition of FriendFeed is a…
dsalo | July 29, 2009All of today's tidbits are from one blog! Well, all but one.
David Rosenthal on digital preservation. I had this bookmarked to blog about, but…
Chris Rusbridge beat me to it, saying everything I would have. Yes, online-versus-offline. Yes, research data in uncommon, niche, and/or proprietary formats. Yes, metadata! And yes, thinking for ourselves.
Semantic Web of Linked Data for Research? In all honesty, my reaction to "Linked Data" can be summed up in Chris's question mark. I am not a fan of RDF, I remain to be convinced that even small, constrained Semantic Webs are feasible given how…
dsalo | July 25, 2009Interesting and perhaps relevant:
Jean-Claude Guédon's examination of power in science. Does e-research destabilize this situation? How? If it doesn't, should it?
Should copyright in academic works be abolished? Makes the obvious point that journal-article authors don't use copyright for its intended purpose of filthy lucre, and extrapolates from there. What I notice is that journal-article authors use copyright as a bulwark against plagiarism, lack of credit, and (whatever they perceive to be) misappropriation. Copyright is a lousy tool for that. We need better ones. Personally, I'd prefer…
dsalo | July 21, 2009Cliff Lynch on institutional repositories. I don't agree with quite all of it (institutional repositories are here to stay? really? in this budget environment? sez who?), but an hour with Cliff Lynch is always an hour well spent, and I'm completely and unabashedly with him on his cautions about IRs.
Margaret Dayhoff, a founder of the field of bioinformatics. (Hat tip to blogger Mary.)
Researchers love their disciplines, not their institutions: open-access repositories and the arts. (What does that mean for institution-based e-research efforts?)
Have a high-bandwidth day!