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Finding a home for your data

By Carly Strasser On 16 May 2012 · 1 Comment · In Uncategorized
Where do I put my data?  This question comes up often when I talk with researchers about long term data archiving.  There are many barriers to sharing and archiving data, and a lack of knowledge about where to archive the data is certainly among them. First and foremost, choose early.  By choosing a data repository [...]
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Trailblazers in Demography

By Carly Strasser On 11 May 2012 · Add Comment · In Uncategorized
Last week I had the great pleasure of visiting Rostock, Germany.  If your geography lessons were a long time ago, you are probably wondering “where’s Rostock?” I sure did… Rostock is located very close to the Baltic Sea, in northeast Germany.  It’s a lovely little town with bumpy streets, lots of sausage, and great public [...]
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QSE3, IGERT, OA and DCXL

By Carly Strasser On 2 May 2012 · Add Comment · In Uncategorized
A few months back I received an invite to visit the University of Florida in sunny Gainesville.  The invite was from organizers of an annual symposium for the Quantitative Spatial Ecology, Evolution and Environment (QSE3) Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program.  Phew! That was a lot of typing for the first two acronyms in my blog [...]
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Data Policies & Other Things

By Carly Strasser On 25 April 2012 · 1 Comment · In Uncategorized
Last Friday I attended a seminar at UC Berkeley’s iSchool given by MacKenzie Smith, a terrific presenter and colleague who is affiliated with Creative Commons (among other prestigious organizations).  MacKenzie was talking about data governance, an issue I covered a few months back for the DCXL blog.  However on Friday MacKenzie brought up a few things [...]
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Putting the meta in metadata

By Carly Strasser On 20 April 2012 · Add Comment · In Uncategorized
The DCXL project is in full swing now– developers are working closely with Microsoft Research to create the add-in that will revolutionize scientific data curation (in my humble opinion!).  Part of this process was deciding how to handle metadata. For a refresher on metadata, i.e. data documentation, read this post about the metadata in DCXL. [...]
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Communication Breakdown: Nerds, Geeks, and Dweebs

By Carly Strasser On 16 April 2012 · 3 Comments · In Uncategorized
Last week the DCXL crew worked on finishing up the metadata schema that we will implement in the DCXL project.  WAIT! Keep reading!  I know the phrase “metadata schema” doesn’t necessarily excite folks – especially science folks.  I have a theory for why this might be, and it can be boiled down to a systemic [...]
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Data Citation Redux

By Carly Strasser On 10 April 2012 · Add Comment · In Uncategorized
I know what faithful DCXL readers are thinking: didn’t you already post about data citation? (For the unfaithful among you, check out this post from last November). Yes, I did. But I’ve been inspired to post yet again because I just attended an amazing workshop about all things data citation related. The workshop was hosted [...]
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The Future of Metrics in Science

By Carly Strasser On 6 April 2012 · Add Comment · In Uncategorized
Ask any researcher what they need for tenure, and the answer is virtually the same across institutions and disciplines: publications.  The “publish or perish” model has reigned supreme for generations of scientists, despite its rather annoying ignorance of having quality over quantity publications, how many collaborations have been established, or even the novelty or difficulty of [...]
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Trending: Big Data

By Carly Strasser On 3 April 2012 · Add Comment · In Uncategorized
Last week, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy  hosted a “Big Data” R&D event, which was broadcast live on the internet (recording available here, press release available as a pdf).  GeekWire did a great piece on the event that provides context.  Wondering what “Big Data” means? Keep reading. Big Data is a phrase being used [...]
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Survey says…

By Carly Strasser On 29 March 2012 · Add Comment · In Uncategorized
A few weeks ago we reached out to the scientific community for help on the direction of the DCXL project.  The major issue at hand was whether we should develop a web-based application or an add-in for Microsoft Excel.  Last week, I reported that we decided that rather than choose, we will develop both.  This [...]
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