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Facebook would like to know whether it’s bad for you. Some social science research suggests that people who use social media more are less satisfied...
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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…
Grad student faked data. What the Qualtrics did in the night was... nothing.
Interesting on gigantic-scale storage architecture. Read more about "erasure coding" as an alternative to extra copies.
Notes on hiring and being hired as a data librarian. By "Alexis Johnson."
Some lovely OAIS-hate.
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
Changing with the times as the world moves from paper to digital, the Harvard Library has adopted forensic techniques to save material stored on obsolete formats.
Management of electronic resources depends primarily on how library workflow is arranged. Different elements such as acquisitions processes depend on an efficient workflow setup. Chapter 3 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 50, no. 3) “Electronic Resource Management Systems: A Workflow Approach” covers how to do a workflow analysis to discover issues with current library resource management, using methods such as the DLF report steps and the TERMS outline. Once a workflow analysis is conducted the library can use the results to determine their selection criteria for adding an ERMS.
The New Orleans Advocate recently published a shocking story that details the very real threats to privacy and civil liberties posed by law enforcement access to private genetic databases and