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Based on his long experience with digital reconstructions of neuronal morphologies, Giorgio Ascoli articulates the benefits and challenges of—and solutions for—changing the cultural resistance to data sharing in the neuroscience community.

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.

Cartoon by John R. McKiernan, downloaded from: http://whyopenresearch.org/gallery.html    I was at a small conference last year, catching ...

Concerns about opening up data, and responses which have proved effective (or “How to make friends and get them to give you their data”)  Christopher Gutteridge, University of Southampton Alexander Dutton, University of Oxford  This document is inspired by the open data excuses bingo card.  Some...

Montana State University developed the Research Data Census to engage local research communities in dialogue about their data: size, sharing of resour

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Wherein I reiterate what others have said and express frustration with The Powers That Be  Of all of the problems in the world of data sharing, the most frustrating to me is the data that are shared but are completely unusable to others. As I've argued before (and of course, I'm not alone in this ar

Post by Andrew Cox, Sheffield Information School Seeing RDM from the researcher’s point of view seems central to building usable infrastructures. Often we think in terms of meta-disciplines like Pu…

I've just returned (a couple of weeks ago now) from the annual Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit in Minneapolis. Apart from being a great conference this year (as always), I've come away with what at first I thought was a bad attitude, but I now realize was a fire in my belly for c

One of the most desired (and basic) postulates of a Digital Asset Management system is the ability to search and find assets. So even before you decide to buy and implement a new DAM system to take ad

This is a report of some of the most common digital asset management (DAM) implementation mistakes, sourced from phone interviews with 32 companies that had im…

Includes self-assessments on data mgmt.

Vines et al. ask authors for the data underlying papers between 2 and 22 years old and find that the odds of it being reported extant decrease by 17% for every year since publication.

DO NOT PUT YOUR DANG DATA ON YOUR DANG WEBSITE. FFS.