Posted: February 25th, 2013 | Author: Sven | Filed under: Data Sharing, Research Data | Tags: academic publishing, access to data, Guidelines, open access, Open Data | 1 Comment »
John Paul Holdren, a chief advisor of US-President Obama on science and technology issues, has issued a memorandum that directs those agencies with more than $100 million in research and development expeditures…
“…to develop plans to make the results of federally-funded research publically available free of charge within 12 months after original publication.”
According to Holdren the directive is well-balanced:
“We wanted to strike the balance between the extraordinary public benefit of increasing public access to the results of federally-funded scientific research and the need to ensure that the valuable contributions that the scientific publishing industry provides are not lost.”
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Posted: January 31st, 2013 | Author: Sven | Filed under: found on the net, Research Data | Tags: metadata, standards, tools | Comments Off
All people dealing with research data management quickly learn that good metadata is key for research data access and re-use.
Now Elizabeth Bedford from DCC, the Digital Curation Centre in UK, collected a lot of information about disciplinary metadata standards, including profiles, tools to implement the standards and use cases of data repositories currently implementing them.
The ressource can be searches by discipline (biology, earth science, physical science, social sciences and humanities and general research data) or by resource type (metadata standards, profiles and extensions, use cases, tools).
Everyone dealing with RDM should have a look at that page – I think it is a very good ressource and provides a valueable overview of disciplinary metadata standards.
Picture: cea. / flickr.com
Posted: January 25th, 2013 | Author: Sven | Filed under: EDaWaX, Research Data | Tags: data centres, hosting | Comments Off
In October and November 2012 our project started an online-survey among national and international research data centres, archives, library networks and libraries. The aim of our survey was to evaluate the opportunities to store and host a publication-related research data archive in the above mentioned organisations.
In our opinion in particular research data centres, but also archives and libraries are very well qualified to take care of these data.
In our survey we checked the general possiblity to host and store different types of research data.
Now we completed our analyses. The results we obtained are listed below.
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Posted: May 7th, 2012 | Author: Sven | Filed under: Projects, Research Data | Tags: RDM, Research Data, tools | Comments Off
The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has just refreshed and replenished their catalogue of tools and services for managing and curating research data.
Beside a new look the catalogue has been overhauled to focus on software and services that directly perform curation and management tasks.
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Posted: April 25th, 2012 | Author: Sven | Filed under: Research Data | Tags: RDM, strategy | Comments Off
Monash University in Australia has released a strategy for managing research data. The strategy was jointly developed by the University Library, the Monash e-Research Centre and the university’s enterprise IT group, eSolutions.
Monash University is active in RDM already for many years – milestones since 2006 include:
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Posted: April 13th, 2012 | Author: Sven | Filed under: Data Sharing, Research Data | Tags: academic publishing, data publication, Linking Data and Publications, Open Data | Comments Off
Sharing and reuse of data has become a vital part of modern scientific research. Having access to datasets ensures that the pace of scientific discovery is not unnecessarily hindered by data being kept under lock and key or hidden away in lab drawers.
In this context I read some interesting news: As part of the commitment to reproducible research and transparency, BioMed Central has now partnered with LabArchives to work together for the shared goal of making datasets supporting peer-reviewed publications available and permanently linked to online publications – and available under terms which permit reuse freely, as Open Data.
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Posted: February 27th, 2012 | Author: Sven | Filed under: fraud, Research Data | Tags: investigation, manipulation, Publications, Research Data | Comments Off
In the November 2011 Issue of Psychological Science, Joseph P. Simmons, Leif D. Nelson and Uri Simonsohn published an interesting article about the undisclosed flexibility in data collection, analysis, and reporting that leads to an increase of actual false-positive rates in psychology. The researchers stated that it is unacceptably easy to publish “statistically significant” evidence consistent with any hypothesis.
The major problem they found is what they call the “researcher degrees of freedom” – or to be more correct: the decisions researchers making within a research process: e.g. what observations should be included or rejected? How much data should be collected? Which control variables should be used?
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Posted: November 8th, 2011 | Author: Sven | Filed under: Data Sharing, Research Data | Tags: Data Sharing, Open Data | 1 Comment »
Martin Hall, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Salford, addresses in his blogpost some interesting questions and positions related to open data:
First he states that access to and use of data may be shaped as much by social conventions as by available technology.
He quotes a report published by NESTA and RIN to illustrate what he means:
“Cultures vary in different disciplines, which can itself cause difficulties in cross-disciplinary work; but researchers are typically both co-operative and competitive. The key currency for securing competitive career rewards is publication of articles, conference papers and monographs; and many researchers regard the data and other resources that they create in the course of their research as their intellectual capital which they wish to exploit and mine in order to produce new publications over an extended period. Some researchers fear that openness involves a loss of control, and a risk of being scooped by others”.
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Posted: October 20th, 2011 | Author: Sven | Filed under: German, Report, Research Data | Tags: RDM, Training | Comments Off
In the course of Frankfurt Book Fair, a new reference book for reasearch data managenent was announced.
The reference book, published by Prof. Büttner, Prof. Hobohm (both FH Potsdam) and Lars Müller, gains insights in the management of research data in different scientific communities.
Beside other topics the reference book deals with the lifecycle of research data, data policies, judical subjects, metadata and standards, repositories for research data, digital preservation and the publishing of data.
The refence book is published by Bock and Herchen and additionally is available as open acess publication.
You can download the reference book here.
