Elie Diner presents arguments for and against sharing research presentations online, arguing that sharing research presentations should be seen as part of the mainstream of open scholarship and is a natural way for academics to present their preliminary findings. Oral research presentations can be a persuasive and powerful medium for scientists to share their ideas and latest findings with […]
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Should academics share their presentations online?
Elie Diner presents arguments for and against sharing research presentations online, arguing that sharing research presentations should be seen as part of the mainstream of open scholarship and is a natural way for academics to present their preliminary findings. Oral research presentations can be a persuasive and powerful medium for scientists to share their ideas and latest findings with […]
Dispatches from PIDapalooza
Last month, California Digital Library, ORCID, Crossref, and Datacite brought together the brightest minds in scholarly infrastructure to do the impossible: make a conference on persistent identifiers fun! Usually discussions about persistent identifiers (PIDs) and networked research are dry and hard to get through or we find ourselves discussing the basics and never getting to […]
We need API use cases!
We need your help! We are beginning work on developing the DMPTool API (application programming interface) and need use cases. If you aren’t familiar with APIs (, I’ve attached a few slides to help explain the concept. But basically, it’s how you … Continue reading →
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 […]
Closed Data… Excuses, Excuses
If you are a fan of data sharing, open data, open science, and generally openness in research, you’ve heard them all: excuses for keeping data out of the public domain. If you are NOT a fan of openness, you should be. For both groups (the fans and the haters), I’ve decided to construct a “Frankenstein monster” […]
The Who’s Who of Publishing Research
This week’s blog post is a bit more of a Sociology of science topic… Perhaps only marginally related to the usual content surrounding data, but still worth consideration. I recently heard a talk by Laura Czerniewicz, from University of Cape Town’s Centre for Educational Technology. She was among the speakers during the Context session at Beyond the […]