Open data initiatives may hold much promise and value, but more attention is needed on how these projects are developing as complex socio-technical systems. Rob Kitchin elaborates on four specific …

Various publications and videos advocating for and describing digital preservation processes.

Argues about what creators deserve and what/how consumers should pay.

Good walk-thru for 668 or cont-ed course.

Private sector involvement could help make research data publicly accessible.

How several UK data services made the case for themselves and handled costing.

Migrate your papers and files to a discoverable, accessible digital archive.

Measuring value CREATION rather than value CAPTURE is the key to understanding why free/open is an economic plus.

D-Lib Magazine

Multi-institution data-curation collaborative effort. Uses existing IR infrastructure (especially human) to move forward.

“Those directly involved with digital archives contend with numerous issues that the general academic community often fails to understand or address, even though they bear significant implications …

Data.gov is coughing blood. The budget being negotiated by Congress will reduce the Electronic Government Fund by 75%, and the same open-gov advocates who championed the project for two years are now taking up arms to save it by persuading people of its importance. Data.gov has had around 1.5 million downloads in the past two years, but the impact of those downloads hasn’t been made clear enough and the site is difficult to use.  This past week, I started a discussion on how to turn the project around. It drew great responses from people knowledgeable about Data.gov, but despite invitations, neither the Sunlight Foundation nor a representative of Data.gov took part. After a week of discussion, a series of common, simple questions emerged and as calls to #SaveTheData intensify, we still don’t know the answers to them.