Jane Beitler, NSIDC Technology has made storing and accessing data and information easy, we think. Capture it, like a photograph or a series of weather measurements, then save it to digital storage housed in a safe place. Keep it …
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DataCite Business Models Principles are online
DataCite’s Business Models Principles document is now available for download. Intended for DataCite members and their clients, the document looks at DataCite member and client responsibilities, as well as best practices.
DataCite members may consult the Principles to learn about their responsibilities regarding contracts, costs and fee schedules, and prefixes. DataCite clients can use the document to understand their responsibility to ensure data persistence and to provide metadata. As well, they can learn about best practices such as landing pages and DOI syntax.
This document will be reviewed at least annually and may be updated more frequently, as necessary. Have a look!
Data Conservancy Releases Alpha Software
By Shonna Clark, JHU Over three years ago, the Data Conservancy began its mission to create technological and human infrastructure able to support the preservation, re-use and discovery of research data. Today, DC is one step closer to that …
JHU Data Archive Archival Process
By Betsy Gunia, JHU Data Management Consultant The Johns Hopkins University Data Management Services (JHU DMS), offered by the Sheridan Libraries, helps researchers develop data management plans and both preserve and share research data. We provide research data archiving …
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Big Data: Call for your words and images
Our three-part series on Big Data is an invitation to discussion.
We’re looking for YOUR best stories, essays and images related to Big Data in ecology and environmental science. We’ll highlight excerpts from our favorites here on our blog will be available within the comments of this blog.
We’re aiming to represent a range of ideas as well as cultivate deep discussions around focused subtopics. As long as it relates to Big Data and ecology/environmental science it’s fair game, but we are particularly interested in discussion of the following points:
What’s one of the biggest challenges of ecological Big Data, and how can/should we address it (or what is someone already doing to address it)?…
NOAA and Data Management Practices
by Ruth Duerr, NSIDC This is an exciting time for scientific data management, a field that up to just a few years ago desperately needed more attention, but which now shows signs of coming into its own as people …