Smartphones have become a key medium through which information of all kinds is accessed. Even a small, but significant, amount of traffic to academic journals derives from smartphones. Their increasing popularity and power, have led some to argue they have an important role to play in maintaining an informed public. However, Johanna Dunaway and Stuart Soroka argue that the smaller […]
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Meet the new DMPTool Product Manager
Today, August 19, marks my seventh week as the new DMPTool Product Manager, and the latest Research Data Specialist to join the team at UC3. I’m thrilled to be joining such an active and engaged community of professionals committed to … Continue reading →
The Open Research Library: Centralisation without Openness
Resolving the question of how to provide an infrastructure for open access books and monographs has remained a persistent problem for researchers, librarians and funders. Knowledge Unlatched’s recent announcement of the open book platform – The Open Research Library – a project aimed at bringing together all available open book content onto one platform has been met with mixed responses. […]
Assessing Impact Assessment – What can be learnt from Australia’s Engagement and Impact Assessment?
The impact agenda is an international and evolutionary phenomenon that has undergone numerous iterations. Discussing the development and recent release of the results of the Australian Engagement and Impact Assessment (EIA), Ksenia Sawczak considers the effectiveness of this latest exercise in impact assessment, finding it to provide an inadequate account of the impact of Australian research and ultimately a shaky evidence […]
Rethinking the rights of children for the Internet Age
The internet is now 30 years old, making it the same age as the key formulation of children’s rights, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. In the intervening years, our understanding of the transformative effects of the internet on both society and children have developed in tandem. In this post Sonia Livingstone outlines some of the issues […]
Representing time in machine-actionable DMPs
In this next installment of the machine-actionable DMP blog series, we want to address the broader context of time to hone in on answering the following question: How and when do you update some piece of information in a DMP? … Continue reading →
Common standards and PIDs for machine-actionable DMPs
Picking up where we left off from “Machine-actionable DMPs: What can we automate?”… Let’s unpack a couple of topics central to our machine-actionable DMP prototyping and automating efforts. These are the top rallying themes from all conversations, workshops, and working … Continue reading →
Prettier and mobile-ready(-er)
The latest DMPTool release is focused on making the tool more attractive and mobile-ready, AND more accessible (release notes). Continue reading for highlights and screenshots, or you can visit the live version of the tool for an improved user experience. … Continue reading →
Roadmap back to school edition
Summer activities and latest (major 2.0.0) release The DMPRoadmap team is checking in with an overdue update after rotating holidays and work travels over the past few months. We also experienced some core team staff transitions and began juggling some … Continue reading →
Minor NSF template updates + other miscellanea
In the waning weeks of summer, we accomplished a wide range of DMPTool things. A bulleted summary of mostly template-related updates is below. Admins should take note that the minor National Science Foundation (NSF) template updates resulted in new versions … Continue reading →