We look at the amazing features in ZFS and btrfs—and why you need them.

Back in the early days of the NDIIPP program we had a series of cross-cutting initiatives that we called “affinity groups.” These groups addressed areas of interest such as “collection and selection,” “technical architecture” and “rights and restrictions” that cut across all the different projects. I was interested in the work of the “economic sustainability” […]

This poster was presented at IASSIST and describes an embedded model of instruction librarianship that integrates a research data management curriculum into the undergraduate research experience.

Read the latest article version by Carly Strasser, John Kunze, Stephen Abrams, Patricia Cruse, at F1000Research.

This paper examines how scientists working in government agencies in the U.S. are reacting to the “ethos of sharing” government-generated data. For scientists to leverage the value of existing govern...

A filenaming screwup hoses the entire analysis, resulting in a paper retraction.

Co-presented for the course INLS 720: Metadata Architectures and Applications at UNC SILS. Subsequently, we also presented at the February 2013 meeting of the …

The following is a guest post from Lee Nilsson, a National Digital Stewardship Resident working with the Repository Development Center at The Library of Congress.  The 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship makes a clear-cut case for the development of File Format Action Plans to combat format obsolescence issues. “Now that stewardship organizations are amassing large collections of digital […]

Infographics are all over the place nowadays. How do you know which ones to trust? Follow these three easy steps to save yourself from getting duped.

History and present situation of data in the digital humanities.

A lot of what was lost was research data in analog form. Claims for digitization appear to have been false at least in part.

In the Friday (Jan. 3) edition of the journal Science, an interdisciplinary group is calling on scholars, funders, journal editors and reviewers to adopt more stringent and transparent standards to

Lack of clinical-trial data sharing meant a lot of taxpayer money wasted on Tamiflu stockpiles.

GREAT introductory visualization. CC-BY, too.

Semantics, Semiotics, Ontology, LOD, LODLAM, Taiwan, Linked Data, 台灣, 連結資料, 鏈結資料, 語意網, RDF, 黃韋菁

Hundreds of new pieces of scientific research are published every month, in fields from physics to biology. While the studies themselves are assiduously archived by publishers, the underlying data researchers analyze to come to their published conclusions can be another story. A recent study in the journal Current Biology found that the data that forms the backbone of those studies becomes less and less accessible to researchers over the years. That lack of archiving, says University of British Columbia zoologist Tim Vines, represents a missed opportunity for the scientific community as a whole.

Shows how to use the AIDA toolkit for assessing institutional capabilities to support digital asset management. It was given as part of module 1 of a 5-module …

Potential preservation plans for student assessment.