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Sharing spatially specific data, which includes the characteristics and behaviors of individuals, households, or communities in geographical space, raises distinct technical and ethical challenges.
HIPAA Compliance: The HIPAA Survival Guide is a plain English guide to HIPAA Compliance and the HITECH Act.
Let me start by saying that the ideals of the Open Data movement: transparency; accountability; and, citizen innovation, are ones that I hold near to my heart. Further, I admire and respect many of the leaders of the Open Data […]
LabKey provides life science data management software to address data integration, collaboration and workflow challenges faced by researchers.
Professor Donald Emmerson from the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies found seven 5.25 floppy disks containing files created using WordPerfect 5.1 under MS DOS 3.3 in 1992 and 1993. Dave Sare at the Institute posted " Professor needs to convert old files SOLUTION" in the expert partners mailing list and thereafter we are connected.
Computers that learn from and repeat human behaviour save time and money, but what happens when they repeat flawed traits or errors thousands of times per second?
Crowdsourced Library Project Management Toolkit started 2/8/2013 by Jennifer Vinopal *NOTE: As of 2017, this toolkit has moved to the DLF wiki and the document below is view only. Please visit and contribute to the new site: https://wiki.diglib.org/DLF_Project_Managers_Toolkit Please come j...
Is it ethical or sustainable for businesses to make money from iconic cultural brands without giving anything back?
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Private sector involvement could help make research data publicly accessible.
From Wired UK: In May 2013, Google's vice president took to stage and announced that Google was aiming to build "a perfect map of the world." An honorable notion with almost utopian connotations -- and why shouldn't it? After all, Google has been at the forefront of leading the biggest change to mapping since the 15th century, when maps went from manuscript to print. Now they're online and taking advantage of satellite imagery, maps are more detailed, accurate and multi-dimensional than they've ever been, but could such a thing as the perfect map ever exist?