From the monthly archives:

December 2009

Team Digital Preservation and the Aeroplane Disaster

18 December 2009
Team Digital Preservation saves the world from mid-air disaster caused by the work of Team Chaos

“Team Digital Preservation saves the world from mid-air disaster caused by the work of Team Chaos.”

This is the second animation of Digital Preservation Europe’s series on digital preservation.

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White House RFI, US Taxpayer Access to Federally Funded Research

16 December 2009

SPARC sent out a reminder email today that last week the White House sent out a Request for Information (RFI) regarding public access to taxpayer funded research. Specifically, the White House is “inviting input on ‘enhancing public access to archived publications resulting from research funded by federal science and technology agencies.’” The RFI will only [...]

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The Fourth Paradigm Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery

16 December 2009
The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery

John Markoff, the author of a New York Times article called, “A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing“, writes that Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley and Kristin Tolle have edited a book that discusses the “Fourth Paradigm”. The book, The Fourth Paradigm Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, is in honor of Jim Gray, who argued [...]

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“Keeping Up with Data Rot”

8 December 2009
Bye, Tech: Dealing with Data Rot

CBS News ran this nice overview of the digital preservation/data (bit) rot problem. I have found this to be a great way to explain the problem in a way that doesn’t put the average listener to sleep.

Go ahead, send the article and video out to your friends and family without fear. You know you want [...]

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Team Digital Preservation and Nuclear Disaster

6 December 2009
Team Digital Preservation saves the world from nuclear disaster caused by the work of Team Chaos

“Team Digital Preservation saves the world from nuclear disaster caused by the work of Team Chaos.”

Digital Preservation Europe released this cute animation a few months ago. It provides a nice overview of the digital preservation problem.

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Data Scientist vs. Data Manager

5 December 2009
intersection of science and technology

So, what exactly is a data scientist? How does this role compare to a data manager?
The authors of a 2005 National Science Foundation (NSF) report defined five actors in data management: data users, authors, managers, scientists and funding agencies. Today, I will examine the data scientist vs. the data manager.
First, what are the shared goals [...]

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What is Taming (the) Data (Deluge)?

1 December 2009
Lasso at ready, to tame the data deluge

The data deluge refers to the increasingly large and complex data sets generated by researchers that must be managed by their creators with “industrial-scale data centres and cutting-edge networking technology” (Nature 455) in order to provide for use and re-use of the data.
The lack of standards and infrastructure to appropriately manage this (often tax-payer [...]

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