New faculty members don't know jack about how to deal with data, film at 11.

Adapted from the Digital POWRR project, slides from my NDSR Immersion Program Workshop. Digital preservation tools and advocacy.

Commerce.gov is the official website of the United States Department of Commerce and Secretary of Commerce.

Stay the hell away from Seagate, apparently.

Earlier this week, I helped our development officer draft a proposal to seek additional funding for our digital curation program.  Given the...

Cartoons! CC-BY!

Medical privacy is a high-stakes game, in both human and financial terms, given the multibillion-dollar market for anonymized medical data — but existing legal protections are full of holes.

UC San Diego won a major legal battle Friday against USC when a judge ruled that control of a landmark project on Alzheimer's disease belongs to the La Jolla school.

There is an awful lot of talk about academic libraries providing data curation services for their researchers.  It turns out that in most cases that service amounts to training and …

Major flaws in two massive trials of deworming pills show the importance of sharing data — which most scientists don't do.

The state of social science is strong, not weak.

Reproducibility and reusability of research results is an important concern in scientific communication and science policy. A foundational element of reproducibility and reusability is the open and persistently available presentation of research data. However, many common approaches for primary data publication in use today do not achieve sufficient long-term robustness, openness, accessibility or uniformity. Nor do they permit comprehensive exploitation by modern Web technologies. This has led to several authoritative studies recommending uniform direct citation of data archived in persistent repositories. Data are to be considered as first-class scholarly objects, and treated similarly in many ways to cited and archived scientific and scholarly literature. Here we briefly review the most current and widely agreed set of principle-based recommendations for scholarly data citation, the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles (JDDCP). We then present a framework for operationalizing the JDDCP; and a set of initial recommendations on identifier schemes, identifier resolution behavior, required metadata elements, and best practices for realizing programmatic machine actionability of cited data. The main target audience for the common implementation guidelines in this article consists of publishers, scholarly organizations, and persistent data repositories, including technical staff members in these organizations. But ordinary researchers can also benefit from these recommendations. The guidance provided here is intended to help achieve widespread, uniform human and machine accessibility of deposited data, in support of significantly improved verification, validation, reproducibility and re-use of scholarly/scientific data.

Table of Contents for Recommended Formats Statement (RFS).  RFS identifies analog and digital formats suitable for the large-scale acquisition of and long-term access to library collections.  The identified formats have been selected to maximize the preservation and accessibility of creative content into the future.