The One Model to Rule Them All?

Redlining and other unjust uses of big data.

D-Lib Magazine

A curious illustration of the lossiness of the mp3 format.

Apps and other software can put powerful teaching tools at teachers’ fingertips, but concerns abound over data security, effectiveness and marketing.

20 questions to ask of a digital-preservation/storage services vendor.

RDA | Metadata Directory

The problem The following question was emailed to me by Jim Fowler: “I’m a professor at Ohio State and I sit on the committee which is drafting a new IP policy for faculty work. I&#8217…

Despite widespread support from policy makers, funding agencies, and scientific journals, academic researchers rarely make their research data available to others. At the same time, data sharing in research is attributed a vast potential for scientific progress. It allows the reproducibility of study results and the reuse of old data for new research questions. Based on a systematic review of 98 scholarly papers and an empirical survey among 603 secondary data users, we develop a conceptual framework that explains the process of data sharing from the primary researcher’s point of view. We show that this process can be divided into six descriptive categories: Data donor, research organization, research community, norms, data infrastructure, and data recipients. Drawing from our findings, we discuss theoretical implications regarding knowledge creation and dissemination as well as research policy measures to foster academic collaboration. We conclude that research data cannot be regarded as knowledge commons, but research policies that better incentivise data sharing are needed to improve the quality of research results and foster scientific progress.

DataDictionary   This chart is formatted the same as the DCC chart here: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-legal/overview-funders-data-policies Here is what the terms mean: Policy Coverage,Published outputs,A policy on published outputs e.g. journal articles and conference papers Data,A d...

Ride-sharing service subpoenas GitHub for IP addresses that accessed security key.