At some point in undertaking digital stewardship, it’s helpful to consider the digital life cycle: the basic stages content moves through from creation to providing ongoing preservation, management and access over time.  Life cycle models are useful for understanding the full scope of the responsibility involved and also in formulating specific workflows for particular kinds […]

I. The new USIH blogger LD Burnett has a post up  expressing ambivalence about the digital humanities because it is too eager to reject book...

Project to design "research data catalogue."

By Peter Sefton and Peter Bugeia, with input from the UWS eResearch community and beyond ## About this post During 2012 The University of Western Sydney (UWS) will be rolling out a Research Data Repository (RDR). Peter Bugeia from Intersect put together the project proposal which secured the budget to move …

I was invited to give a talk to the British Geological Survey on the 25th January, on the topic of data citation and publishing, and why it...

In a timely and incisive talk at TEDxWaterloo, Michael Nielsen made the case for open science -- the idea that research data and results should be freely available to the public, and that scientists should collaborate more freely with each other and with the public.

Archaeologists and technologists develop supercomputer-powered solutions to protect and preserve ancient sites and artifacts.

– As libraries become more involved in curating research data, reference librarians will need to be trained in conducting data interviews with researchers to better understand their data and associated needs. This article seeks to identify and provide definitions for the basic terms and concepts of data curation for librarians to properly frame and carry out a data interview using the Data Curation Profiles (DCP) Toolkit., – The DCP Toolkit is a semi‐structured interview designed to assist librarians in identifying the data curation needs of researchers. The components of the DCP Toolkit were analyzed to determine the base level of knowledge needed for librarians to conduct effective data interviews. Specific concepts, definitions, and examples were sought through a review of articles, case studies, practitioner resources and from the experiences of the Purdue University Libraries., – Data curation concepts and terminology are not yet well‐defined and often vary across, or even within fields of study. This research informed the development of a workshop to train librarians in using the DCP Toolkit. The definitions and concepts addressed in the workshop include: data, data set, data lifecycle, data curation, data sharing, and roles for reference librarians., – Conducting a data interview can be a daunting task given the complexity of data curation and the lack of shared definitions. Practical tools and training are needed to help librarians develop capacity in data curation., – This article provides practical information for public service librarians to help them conceptualize and conduct a data interview with researchers.

The short answer is no. However, I haven’t been able to get this question out of my mind since attending a session on open notebook laboratory science at the ScienceOnline 2012 conference last week at N.C. State University. Is there something of use from open science techniques that could be brought to the health policy/health […]

On January 6, 2012, I had the opportunity to attend CurateGear, an interactive, day-long event focused on digital curation tools and methods held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This meeting did many things right. It introduced attendees to the wide spectrum of digital curation activities, from appraisal to ingest to auditing […]

Data-curation course for librarians

New edition of ICPSR's classic guide.