DataCite will hold its second Summer Meeting on August 24th and 25th at the historic Shattuck Plaza Hotel in Berkeley, California. The Summer Meeting will be a 1.5 day event and you can register at: http://datacite2011.eventbrite.com/ . The Summer Meeting…
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CFP: DDI Workshop: Managing Metadata for Longitudinal Data – Best Practices
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DDI Workshop: Managing Metadata for Longitudinal Data – Best Practices September, 19-23, 2011 Leibniz Center for Informatics, Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany Goals This symposium-style workshop will bring together representatives from major longitudinal data collection efforts to share expertise and to…
Data Documentation Initiative 3 (DDI 3) Data Extraction Tools from Colectica Awarded an NIH Grant
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The Data Documentation Initiative 3 (DDI 3) standard is a simply fabulous and full standard for metadata (data about data) as well as for the data contents, making it a full payload standard. DDI 3 is such an exciting standard…
Data Sets in the UF Digital Collections
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The UF Digital Collections has many data sets, but most are historical -Â as in pre-digital historical, printed on paper, and then digitized. In digitizing the materials, text is created by OCR so the data is all available, but it’s…
“Linked Data is Not Enough!”
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“Why Linked Data is Not Enough for Scientists” is an excellent article dealing with the very real and very complicated factors, over and above access, that impact data reuse. “Abstract—Scienti?c data stands to represent a signi?cant portion of the linked…
Word of the Day (or maybe even year): autotechnogeoglyphics
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Autotechnogeoglyphics I’m not sure how I came across the “Pruned” blog’s post on autotechnogeoglyphics, but it’s the most wonderful word I’ve seen in sme time. auto-techno-geo-glyphics sounds of steampunk, science fiction, fantasy, epic world building and world altering technology, histories…
Codework : Opening Keynote Ted Nelson
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I’m currently at the Center for Literary Studies (CLC) Codework: Exploring relations between creative writing practices and software engineering workshop, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, held at West Virginia University (and it’s April 3-6, 2008 and there’s more on…