For the last two months, UC3 have been working with the teams at Data.gov, Data Refuge, Internet Archive, and Code For Science (creators of the Dat Project) to aggregate the government data. Data that spans the globe There are currently volunteers across the country working to discover and preserve publicly funded research, especially climate data, from […]
Category: Archiving Data
Government Data At Risk
Government data is at risk, but that is nothing new. The existence of Data.gov, the Federal Open Data Policy, and open government data belies the fact that, historically, a vast amount of government data and digital information is at risk of disappearing in the transition between presidential administrations. For example, between 2008 and 2012, […]
USING AMAZON S3 AND GLACIER FOR MERRITT- An Update
The integration of the Merritt repository with Amazon’s S3 and Glacier cloud storage services, previously described in an August 16 post on the Data Pub blog, is now mostly complete. The new Amazon storage supplements Merritt’s longstanding reliance on UC private cloud offerings at UCLA and UCSD. Content tagged for public access is now routed to S3 […]
Lit Review: #PLOSFail and Data Sharing Drama
I know what you’re thinking– how can yet another post on the #PLOSfail hoopla say anything new? Fear not. I say nothing particularly new here, but I do offer a three-weeks-out lit review of the hoopla, in hopes of finding a pattern in the noise. For those new to the #PLOSFail drama, the short version is […]
Finding Disciplinary Data Repositories with DataBib and re3data
This post is by Natsuko Nicholls and John Kratz. Natsuko is a CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for the Sciences and Social Sciences at the University of Michigan. The problem: finding a repository Everyone tells researchers not to abandon their data on a departmental server, hard drive, USB stick , CD-ROM, stack of Zip disks, […]
Institutional Repositories: Part 2
A few weeks back I wrote a post describing institutional repositories (IRs for short). IRs have been around for a while, with the impetus of making scholarly publications open access. However more recently, IRs have been cited as potential repositories for datasets, code, and other scholarly outputs. Here I continue the discussion of IRs and compare […]
Institutional Repositories: Part 1
If you aren’t a member of the library and archiving world, you probably aren’t aware of the phrase institutional repository (IR for short). I certainly wasn’t aware of IRs prior to joining the CDL, and I’m guessing most researchers are similarly ignorant. In the next two blog posts, I plan to first explain IRs, then lay out […]