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Trailblazers in Demography
Last week I had the great pleasure of visiting Rostock, Germany. If your geography lessons were a long time ago, you are probably wondering “where’s Rostock?” I sure did… Rostock is located very close...
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Data Diversity is Okay
At risk of sounding like a motivational speaker, this is such an exciting time to be involved in science and research. We are swimming in data and information (yay!), there are exciting software tools...
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ONEShare and #OR2012
From Flickr by ~Coqui One of my UC3 colleagues is at the Open Repositories 2012 Meeting (#OR2012) in Edinburgh, Scotland this week. This prompted me to ask two questions: (1) What does open...
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DataUp at #ESA2012
I’m spending this week in Portland to attend the Ecological Society of America’s annual meeting. If you are a long-timer of the blog, you might remember I was at ESA last year to collect requirements...
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The Geek SXSW
The Texan group Explosions in the Sky performed at SXSW. Another Texan native who wants to go? Me! Help by voting for my panel. From flickr by shotgunshy Seeing the acronym SXSW is likely to elicit one...
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A Potpourri of DC Meetings
I’ve been in our nation’s capital since Sunday for three meetings, all while battling a particularly tenacious cold. I’m using this post as a debrief, as well as to tell you about a few nifty...
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All Things Data in Amsterdam
The International Digital Curation Conference is wrapping up today, and I feel like I just finished a big, tasty Thanksgiving dinner: full and slightly uncomfortable, but in the brain rather than the...
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Thoughts on Data Publication
If you read last week’s post on the IDCC meeting in Amsterdam, you may know that today’s post was inspired by a post-conference workshop on Data Publication, sponsored by the PREPARDE group. The...
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Libraries & the Future of Scholarly Communication at #BTPDF2
Let’s hope this doesn’t become the uniform of academic librarians. From allposters.com Last week I attended the Beyond the PDF 2 Meeting, sponsored by FORCE11. For those unaware of BTPDF2, it’s a...
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The Who’s Who of Publishing Research
This week’s blog post is a bit more of a Sociology of science topic… Perhaps only marginally related to the usual content surrounding data, but still worth consideration. I recently heard a talk by...
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Large Facilities & the Data they Produce
Last week I spent three days in the desert, south of Albuquerque, at the NSF Large Facilities Workshop. What are these “large facilities”, you ask? I did too… this was a new world for me, but the...
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Software for Reproducibility
The ultimate replication machine: DNA. Sculpture at Lawrence Berkeley School of Science, Berkeley CA. From Flickr by D.H. Parks. Last week I thought a lot about one of the foundational tenets of...
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The Data Lineup for #ESA2013
Why am I excited about Minneapolis? Potential Prince sightings, of course! From http://www.emusic.com In less than week, the Ecological Society of America’s 2013 Meeting will commence in Minneapolis,...
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RDA Meeting Part 1: The RDA Organization
Did you know that the National Academy of Sciences was founded in 1863, at the height of the Civil War? From Wikimedia Commons. This week nearly 400 data nerds flooded the National Academy of Sciences...
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RDA Meeting Part 2: The Meeting in DC
In last week’s post, I outlined the basic structure of the Research Data Alliance, a group intent on enabling international data sharing and collaboration. I attended the recent RDA 2nd Plenary in...
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Two Altmetrics Workshops in San Francisco
Last week, a group forward-thinking individuals interested in measuring scholarly impact gathered at Fort Mason in San Francisco to talk about altmetrics. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funded the...
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My picks for #AGU13
Nerds come in many flavors at the AGU meeting. From Flickr by Westfield, Ma Next week, the city of San Francisco will be overrun with nerds. More specifically,more than 22,000 geophysicists,...
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Mountain Observatories in Reno
A few months ago, I blogged about my experiences at the NSF Large Facilities Workshop. “Large Facilities” encompass things like NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network), IRIS PASSCAL Instrument...
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It takes a data management village
A couple of weeks ago, information scientists, librarians, social scientists, and their compatriots gathered in Toronto for the 2014 IASSIST meeting. IASSIST is, of course, an acronym which I always...
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Sharing is caring, but should it count?
The following is a guest post by Shea Swauger, Data Management Librarian at Colorado State University. Shea and I both participated in a meeting for the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries on 11...
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