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E-research, cyberinfrastructure, data curation, open access... an academic librarian examines how computers change research and libraries.
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Category: Praxis
John Dupuis asks some provocative questions; I thought I'd take a stab at answering them, and I encourage fellow SciBlings to do likewise. I quite agree with John when he says that the ferment over publishing models disguises a larger...
Posted March 17, 2010 • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Praxis
One of the truisms in data curation is "well, of course we don't let sensitive data out into the wild woolly world." We hold sensitive data internally. If we must let it out, we anonymize it; sometimes we anonymize it...
Posted March 10, 2010 • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Praxis
So the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is mired in a rapidly heating controversy over a report that apparently let some dubious information slip through the cracks. Here's the money quote: The discovery of the glaciers mistake has...
Posted March 1, 2010 • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Praxis
The journal impact factor is a sham and a crock and a delusion, let's just take that as read. (If you don't care to take that as read, which is a healthy and sane attitude—take no one's word as gospel,...
Posted February 22, 2010 • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Praxis
I don't hear as much curiosity from the research community as I'd like to about what a librarian knows and does, but I do hear some. For that some, I suggest poking through the fourth annual iteration of Librarian Day...
Posted January 25, 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Open Access
One way and another, I heard quite a lot of talk at Science Online 2010 relevant to the interests of institutional-repository managers and (both would-be and actual) data curators. Some of the lessons learned weren't exactly pleasant, but there's just...
Posted January 17, 2010 • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Praxis
I wrote last week about name authority control for authors. I hinted that systems are coming. I hope that journals, databases, catalogues, and repositories adopt them when they emerge, the sooner the better. Even when they do, though, there's an...
Posted December 29, 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Praxis
A common response, including in the comments at Book of Trogool, to raising digital-preservation issues is a chortle of "Guess print doesn't seem so bad now! Let's just print everything out, and then we'll be fine!" Leaving aside my own...
Posted December 14, 2009 • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Praxis
The latest issue of the International Journal of Digital Curation is out; if you're in this space and not at least watching the RSS feed for this journal, you should be. I was scanning this article on Georgia Tech's libraries'...
Posted December 8, 2009 • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Praxis
There have been a number of piercing calls for training of data professionals (of various stripes) in the last year or so. Schools of information have been answering: Illinois, North Carolina, others. Honestly, I'm getting a sinking feeling in my...
Posted December 4, 2009 • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
