If you had told me as a child that one day, I would be an entomologist writing a scathing retort to a New England Journal of Medicine Editorial, I probably wouldn’t believe you. First, I&#821…

Hi everyone, I just came back from giving a keynote speech in Vancouver Canada, complete with pictures of baby animals. I am condensing the key concepts here. A couple of notes before we tackle tod…

This brief document explores the pros and cons of seven possible research data management funding sources. It also describes the current circumstances in seven countries outside the US. #oclcresearch

By Brian Dietz This post is the third in a bloggERS series about access to born-digital materials. Over the last three years, the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) at NCSU Libraries has un…

DriveSavers had to write special software to read the disks written with a custom OS.

This paper identifies organizational challenges faced by Social Science and Humanities (SSH) scholars when dealing with digital data and media, and suggests improved file naming practices in order to maximize organization, making files easier to find, more useable, and more easily shared. We argue that such skills are not formally discussed in the literature and therefore many scholars do not recognize the problem until they cannot locate a specific file or are sharing files with colleagues. We asked SSH scholars to share their file naming strategies (or lack thereof ) and we use these narrative anecdotes to discuss common problems and suggest possible solutions for their general file naming needs.

An independent computer security researcher uncovered a database of information on 191 million voters that is exposed on the open Internet due to an incorrectly configured database, he said on Monday.

Originally posted on DETROITography.com I am constantly thinking about how to make maps and data more focused on people, their stories, and the impacts that those numbers represent. It is a constan…

An exhaustive reference to problems seen in real-world data along with suggestions on how to resolve them. - GitHub - Quartz/bad-data-guide: An exhaustive reference to problems seen in real-world d...

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