"Five Stages of Organizational Response to Digital Preservation" Acknowledge, Act, Consolidate, Institutionalize, Externalize

We're at the mercy of entire industries that have never had to do online security before.

I had the privilege of speaking to the San Jose State University community at two talks hosted by the California Faculty Association, Department of Philosophy and Center for Ethics yesterday. For s…

Randy Olson ponders how studies using proprietary data should be handled when published in open access journals.

The following guest post is by Linda Raftree. Linda works with Plan International USA, serves as a special advisor on ICTs and M&E for the Rockefeller Foundation’s Evaluation Office and is a me…

HIVE (Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering) is an effort to automatically generate metadata for content, drawing descriptor terms from multiple vocabularies encoded as Simple Knowledge Organization Systems (SKOS). The effort is a response to the challenges of interoperability, cost and usability of multiple terminology sets often needed to adequately describe digital resources.

"Data journalism" exercise in which n00bs paw through a whole lot of messy data to find out whodunnit.

The authors of a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine are retracting it, after being unable to find data supporting a table that required corrections. Here’s the notice:

BioNames is a web database of taxonomic names for animals, linked to the primary literature and, wherever possible, to phylogenetic trees. It aims to provide a taxonomic “dashboard” where at a glance we can see a summary of the taxonomic and phylogenetic information we have for a given taxon and hence provide a quick answer to the basic question “what is this taxon?” BioNames combines classifications from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and GenBank, images from the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), animal names from the Index of Organism Names (ION), and bibliographic data from multiple sources including the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) and CrossRef. The user interface includes display of full text articles, interactive timelines of taxonomic publications, and zoomable phylogenies. It is available at http://bionames.org.

Computerworld covers a range of technology topics, with a focus on these core areas of IT: Windows, Mobile, Apple/enterprise, Office and productivity suites, collaboration, web browsers and blockchain, as well as relevant information about companies such as Microsoft, Apple and Google.

Scientists from the University of Washington have been struggling for the past decade to decipher the complex structure of an enzyme that exhibits

Licenses sensitive to traditional-cultural-artifact concerns.