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I got to attend the most awesome presentation, and since there really isn’t a better place to write about it, y’all are just going to have ...

It may not have taken off, but the Tefifon is an interesting artifact: the guts of each cartridge are spooled tape, but they're not magnetic. Instead they're plastic with etched grooves, just like vinyl.

AWESOME list of the weird physical storage options available in the '90s.

Good to read this one for tone.

From the UK.

From the UK. What it says on the tin.

UK data-specific colldev policy.

Ever wonder why illnesses give you specific symptoms? Or how those symptoms are created in your body?

Researchers increasingly need to integrate the disposition, management and curation of their data into their current workflows. However, it is not yet clear to what extent faculty and students are sufficiently prepared to take on these responsibilities. This paper articulates the need for a data information literacy program (DIL) to prepare students to engage in such an “e-research” environment. Assessments of faculty interviews and student performance in a geoinformatics course provide complementary sources of information, which are then filtered through the perspective of ACRL’s information literacy competency standards to produce a draft set of outcomes for a data information literacy program.

Can data brokers be trusted to regulate themselves?

Last summer, Facebook received terrible press for running experiments on its users, adjusting the proportion of happy and unhappy posts at the top of people’s news feeds to see how that effected their moods. Shortly after that controversy surfaced, OKCupid founder Christian Rudder proudly announced “we experiment on human beings.” [...]

As expected, agency will link abstracts to papers on journals' websites

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