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Defines redlining.
Could be really good for data instruction also!
Stuart Dunn examines the development of crowd-sourcing activities in academic contexts and identifies the potential for looking beyond the short-term benefits crowd-sourcing offers to a project’s c…
The Open Science Training Initiative, by Sophie Kay
Goes after the "domain knowledge" thing by asserting that "interactional expertise" (the knowledge you pick up from immersion that lets you speak Their Language) generally suffices.
Are researchers’ dogs eating a lot of their homework? Well, yesterday afternoon at the quadrennial medical editors’ scientific meeting in Chicago, we found out they kinda are.
Steve Leggett, program coordinator of the National Film Preservation Board at the Library of Congress (LC), laughs as he retells this Hollywood urban legend. Nevertheless the story contains truth. Scores of films were destroyed during cinema’s early years by studios that viewed silents as obsolete. These silent classics were not seen as works of art … Continue reading Saving Our Celluloid Past →
Well colour me naive. When PLoS announced their new data archiving policy a few days ago, I hardly felt like it was a "big deal". Providing...
Beware of swears.
Ben Goldacre: Care.data, the grand project to make the medical records of the UK population available for scientific and commercial use, is not inherently evil – far from it – but its execution has been badly bungled. Here's how the government can regain our trust
UPDATE 7 MARCH: Please see new blog post UPDATE 26 FEBRUARY : A flurry of interest has arisen around the revised PLOS…
While many kinds of analog media age with a kind of dignity, taking on a patina of age and the term “vintage,” the same is generally not true of digital media. Of the range of digital media out there, the humble rewritable CD is likely one of the least loved and most rapidly aging and […]
We’re lucky in the digital stewardship community that our challenges tend to be non life-threatening. Still, when we get fired up about something there is guaranteed to be spirited debate and passionate advocacy on all sides. Such was the case with the release of the PDF/A-3 file format specification in October 2012. We wrote about […]
There is a great post by Jeni Tennison on the Open Data Institute blog entitled Five Stages of Data Grief . It resonates so much with my ex...
A big news item coming out of the Digital Infrastructure Summit held in Ottawa on January 28-29, 2014 was the announcement that Canada’s federal research councils will introduce policy change…