As a curator and a coder, I know it is essential to use naming conventions. It is important to employ a consistent approach when naming digital files or software components such as modules or variables. However, when a student assistant asked me recently why it was important not to use spaces in our image file names, I struggled to come up with an answer. “Because I said so,” while tempting, is not really an acceptable response. Why, in fact, is this important? For this blog entry, I set out to answer this question and to see if, along the way, I could develop an “elevator pitch” – a short spiel on the reasoning behind file naming conventions.
Why is it so important to cite data? Books and journal articles have long benefited from an infrastructure that makes them easy to cite, a key element in the process of research and academic discourse. We believe that you should cite data in just the same way that you can cite other sources of information, such as articles and books.
The Data FAIRport initiative is an open movement started as the practical follow up of a Lorentz Workshop in Leiden, The Netherlands, January 2014, named: Jointly designing a Data FAIRport.
The participants of the workshop represented the worlds of research infrastructure and policy, publishing, the semantic web and life sciences research.
swMATH is a freely accessible, innovative information service for mathematical software. swMATH not only provides access to an extensive database of information on mathematical software, but also includes a systematic linking of software packages with relevant mathematical publications.
If you've spent much time in open source projects, you have probably seen the term "copyleft" used. While the term is quite commonly used, many people don't understand it. Learn more about copyleft in this article.
The HydroShare architecture is a stack of storage and computation, web services, and user applications. A content management system, Django+Mezzanine, provides user interface, search, social media functions, and services. iRODS provides content storage. A web browser is the main interface to HydroShare, however a web services applications programming interface (API) supports access through other hydrologic modeling systems, and the architecture separates the interface layer and services layer exposing all functionality through these web services.
PresQT engages stakeholders in a collaborative planning effort to enhance reproducibility and more open sharing of research data through open source development of a Research Data & Software Preservation Quality Tool.
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of digital information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.
Among the many online learning resources that the DCC offers digital curators are high-level briefing papers and legal watch, standards watch and technology watch papers.
Our digital library of resources is free to use and contains everything you need to engage effectively in digital curation and data preservation activities.
B. Schembera, and D. Iglezakis. Metadata and Semantic Research. 12th International Conference, MTSR 2018, Limassol, Cyprus, 23-26 October 2018, Proceedings, Springer, (forthcoming)
S. Scholtens, P. Anbeek, J. Böhmer, M. Brullemans-Spansier, M. van der Geest, M. Jetten, C. Staiger, I. Slouwerhof, and C. van Gelder. Spreadsheet, (October 2019)The three spreadsheets are provided in the following file formats: Microsoft Excel XLSX (original), OpenDocument Spreadsheet ODS (export), and Comma Delimited CSV utf-8 (export). This project is funded by the ZonMw Personalised Medicine Programme under Dossier number: 80-84600-98-3007. The project period is Aug 2018 - July 2019. Additional funding will be provided by UMCG, UMCU, Radboud University Nijmegen, Radboudumc and DTL/ELIXIR-Netherlands..
C. Staiger, M. Jetten, J. Böhmer, I. Slouwerhof, M. van der Geest, C. van Gelder, and S. Scholtens. Picture, (June 2019)This figure is part of a project funded by the ZonMw Personalised Medicine Programme under Dossier number: 80-84600-98-3007. The project period is Aug 2018 - July 2019. Additional funding will be provided by UMCG, UMCU, Radboud University Nijmegen, Radboudumc and DTL/ELIXIR-Netherlands..
C. Brown, N. Hong, and M. Jackson. (May 2018)This workshop was organised by Jisc. The Software Sustainability Institute is supported by EPSRC grant EP/H043160/1 and EPSRC/BBSRC and ESRC grant EP/N006410/1..
M. Gärtner, U. Hahn, and S. Hermann. Language Technologies for the Challenges of the Digital Age: 27th International Conference, GSCL 2017, Berlin, Germany, September 13-14, 2017, Proceedings, page 284--291. Cham, Springer International Publishing, (2018)
N. Micic, D. Neagu, I. Campean, and E. Habib Zadeh. (2017)Every industry has significant data output as a product of their working process, and with the recent advent of big data mining and integrated data warehousing it is the case for a robust methodology for assessing the quality for sustainable and consistent processing. In this paper a review is conducted on Data Quality (DQ) in multiple domains in order to propose connections between their methodologies. This critical review suggests that within the process of DQ assessment of heterogeneous data sets, not often are they treated as separate types of data in need of an alternate data quality assessment framework. We discuss the need for such a directed DQ framework and the opportunities that are foreseen in this research area and propose to address it through degrees of heterogeneity..