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Category Archives: News
The Language of Data
In a brief Wired column, Clive Thompson addresses the importance for all of us to hone our data “reading” skills, with statistics as the “grammar”. I think I need to break out my Biometry textbook. These kinds of skills are … Continue reading
Data management plans – a satirical view
The news of NSF’s impending requirement for data management plans has prompted a few more or less humorous responses. For instance, see this data management plan from the Daily Life in an Ivory Basement blog. I’m not sure that I … Continue reading
NSF to require data management plans
From the May 10, 2010 NSF press announcement: During the May 5th meeting of the National Science Board, National Science Foundation (NSF) officials announced a change in the implementation of the existing policy on sharing research data. In particular, on … Continue reading
Open Science presentation at CNI
from the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI): Liz Lyon’s presentation Codes, Clouds and Constellations: Open Science in the Data Decade can be accessed from: YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBqaEShIexQ or Vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/11242487
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Tagged Computer Science, Cyberinfrastructure, Open Science, Repositories
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Open Science – An Introduction
I attended the Science Commons Symposium a few weeks back, which gave me a chance to meet several chemists who use Open Notebook Science (ONS). This, along with the recent seminar by Jim Reichman, got me thinking about Open Science … Continue reading
Science 2.0: the Role of Open Access to Data and Publications
Jim Reichman spoke for one of the CEEB (Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) seminars at the UO on March 29, and was kind enough to provide me with a copy of his slides on the topic: Science 2.0: the … Continue reading
Science Commons Symposium – Pacific Northwest
I attended the Science Commons Symposium – Pacific Northwest, on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA on Feb. 20, 2010. My notes are below. More detailed notes were compiled by Brian Glanz of the Open Science Foundation, and there are … Continue reading
37th Annual MCN Conference
37th Annual MCN Conference, “Museum Information, Museum Efficiency: Doing More with Less!”, Portland, OR Nov. 11 – 14, 2009. This conference by MCN came to my attention through a posting on the LITA list serve. The museum perspective on data … Continue reading
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Tagged Conferences/Training, Digital Libraries, Museums, Ontologies, Semantic Web, Usability
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SLA
SLA Annual Meeting Washington DC, June 15 – 17 2009. Here are some notes from the sessions that I (Brian) attended. Handouts for some of the sessions can be found at: http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/ac2009/Conference/handouts/index.cfm Biomedical and Life Sciences Contributed Papers Three papers … Continue reading
