DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 21 2007 | research data, UKOLN, data sharing, guidelines, report, data centres, data curation, institutional repositoriesDealing with Data: Roles, Rights, Responsibilities and Relationships - consultancy report by Dr Liz Lyon for JISC
DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 15 2009 | research data, data management, Oxford, blogs, data librarians, data repositoriesBlog post from Chris Keene on the "The Data Imperative: Libraries and Research Data" event held at Oxford in June.
Interesting summaries and comments on speakers - Paul Jeffries, Luis Martinez, Sally Rumsey, Alma Swan, Simon Hodson, Martin Lewis.
DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 01 2009 | research data, curation
DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 05 2009 | Research Data, Data ManagementThe UK Data Archive have launched a new suite of web pages providing guidance on Data Management and Sharing. The pages aim to provide data creators, data managers and data curators with best practice strategies and methods for creating, preparing and storing shareable datasets. Advice has been divided into a number of key areas or modules providing detailed information on each topic.
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DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 24 2008 | Research Data, Finland, Open AccessOpen Access to and Reuse of Research Data –
The State of the Art in FinlandMotivated by OECD's open access guidelines (and funded by the Ministry of Education) the Finnish Data Archive carried out an online survey targeting professors of human sciences, social sciences and behavioural sciences in Finnish universities. The aim of this survey was to chart how the universities in Finland have organised the depositing of digital research data and to what extent the data are reused by the scientific community after the
original research has been completed.Professors were asked, for example, whether their department had any guidelines on the preservation of digital research data. A great majority (90%) said no.
The URL of this article is: http://www.fsd.uta.fi/julkaisut/julkaisusarja/FSDjs07_OECD_en.pdf
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DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 03 2008 | Research Data, articleTowards a Data Sharing Culture: Recommendations for Leadership from Academic Health Centers. This (US) Public Library of Science article comes up with seven recommendations to facilitate data sharing in the health and medical sciences. Note: the large number of (seemingly) relevant citations
DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 21 2008 | Research data, data management, Canada
Canada currently has no nationally adopted standards or policies governing how research data is collected, catalogued, or preserved. A new collaborative effort has been set up to address the challenges surrounding the access and preservation of this data. The Research Data Strategy (RDS) Working Group is a multi-disciplinary group of universities, institutes, libraries, granting agencies, and individual researchers with a shared recognition of the pressing need to deal with Canadian data management issues.
DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 04 2008 | data sharing, research data, data publishing, report, RINQuoted: The RIN report "To share or not to share: Publication and quality assurance of research data outputs" (June 2008) presents the findings from a study of whether or not researchers do make their research data available to others, and the issues they encounter when doing so.
DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 07 2008 | data sharing, science, research data
The DOE Data Explorer (DDE) locates scientific research data - such as computer simulations, numeric data files, figures and plots, interactive maps, multimedia, and scientific images - generated by DOE-sponsored research in various science disciplines. The DOE Data Explorer includes a database of citations prepared by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). It is intended for students, the public, and to researchers who are looking for experimental or observational data outside their normal field of expertise.
DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 27 2008 | open access, research data, guidelines, service
As promised, SHERPA's Juliette service (compliments Romeo) now lists and rates the open access policies of research funders (UK and beyond) not only for peer reviewed outputs but for research data. Policies are given a pass-fail rating based on the following criteria: 1) Data archiving is required. 2) Data must be deposited within five years.
DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 26 2008 | research data, open access
PANGAEA - Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data is an Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research. Most of the data are freely available and can be used by referencing the related publication or the dataset citation. The data description (metadata) of all data sets are visible and include the principle investigators (PI) name and email for contact.


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"It is provides some discussion of general issues and it contains an interesting table which helpfully proposes a set of stakeholder roles and suggests associated rights, responsibilities and relationships.
Readers here may be interested in the following statement: "The polarisation of views regarding the role of institutional repositories for data was marked. " http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001380.html
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