The Journal of Open Research Software (JORS) features peer reviewed Software Metapapers describing research software with high reuse potential. We are working with a number of specialist and institutional repositories to ensure that the associated software is professionally archived, preserved, and is openly available. Equally importantly, the software and the papers will be citable, and reuse will be tracked.
JORS also publishes full-length research papers that cover different aspects of creating, maintaining and evaluating open source research software. The aim of the section is to promote the dissemination of best practice and experience related to the development and maintenance of reusable, sustainable research software.
Starting in January 2016 and funded for three years by the German Research Foundation (DFG), project CONQUAIRE – Continuous Quality Control for Research Data to Ensure Reproducibility will focus on reproducibility and quality control during the research process in an institutional setting.
Forschungsdatenmanagement ist eine im wissenschaftlichen Bereich auf den Umgang mit Forschungsdaten ausgerichtete Form des Projektmanagements, der Arbeitsorganisation und -steuerung. Es geht darum, die eigenen Arbeitsprozesse, die die Erzeugung von und den Umgang mit Forschungsdaten betreffen, möglichst effizient und zielorientiert zu organisieren und fortlaufend zu steuern. Den Nutzen und die Vorteile, welche dies mit sich bringt, soll an den nachfolgenden Modulen aufgezeigt werden.
Mit der voranschreitenden Digitalisierung von Forschung und Lehre steigt die Zahl an Software-Lösungen, die an wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen entstehen und zur Verarbeitung wissenschaftlicher Daten genutzt werden. Die unter dem Stichwort Open Science geforderte Zugänglichkeit und Nachnutzung von wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen kann in vielen Fachgebieten nur sichergestellt werden, wenn Forschungsdaten und Programmcode offen zugänglich gemacht werden.
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.
The PREMIS maintenance activity is responsible for maintaining, supporting, and coordinating future revisions to the PREMIS data dictionary. The Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies Working Group, convened by OCLC and RLG, initially developed the PREMIS data dictionary as a specification with the goal of creating an implementable set of "core" preservation metadata elements, with broad applicability within the digital community. a supporting xml schema allows for implementation of element set and is maintained in network development marc standards office library congress.
It is important to ensure that different copies or versions of files, files held in different formats or locations, and information that is cross-referenced between files are all subject to version control.
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.
Data Citation Synthesis Group: Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles. Martone M. (ed.) San Diego CA: FORCE11; 2014 [/datacitation]. Endorsement List
File naming is a vital first step for those beginning to digitise. This document examines planning and using an effective file naming system when managing digital files. This paper highlights the advantages of using the 8.3 convention and looks at some options when naming derivative, surrogate files.
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.
The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) is a program funded by the Australian Government to develop research data infrastructure and enable more effective use of Australia's research data assets.
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.
J. Howison, and J. Herbsleb. Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work - CSCW \textquotesingle11, ACM Press, (2011)