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The Science Network – A Social Network Parody

18 April 2011

You don’t get to 11 million papers without a few dodgy results.

So, what do you think? Did he or didn’t he invent PubMed?
[Via Jane G.]

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Twitter Map of Profanity — Polite Plains & Profane Mountains

28 January 2011
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Have you ever wondered in what locations people swear more or less versus other geographic locations? I can’t say I have, either. Having said that, sometimes too much data can be a wonderful thing — if one has a sense of humor, that is.
Cartographer Daniel Huffman has used “1.5 millon geocoded tweets from last March [...]

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Oxford Launches Research Data Management Website

16 November 2010
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The following announcement was posted to the Research Data Management listserv on 14 November 2010 via S. Hodson. I thought it might be on interest to some of you.

The University of Oxford has recently launched a new Research Data Management Website: www.admin.ox.ac.uk/rdm
The development of this resource was ‘a close collaboration between Research Services, Computing [...]

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The Keeper of Manhatten’s Many Maps

15 November 2010
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So, you’d like a job taming data and providing access to information? Or, you already tame data and provide access to information, but you want to change jobs. What kinds of jobs are available?
The Wall Street Journal recently profiled a position they called, “The Keeper of Manhatten’s Many Maps“. The mapkeeper’s name is Hector Rivera. [...]

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Preservation Policies, Forbes, and an Email Time Capsule

12 November 2010
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I’m often asked why the preservation of digital materials is so complicated. After all, isn’t it simply about the storage and migration, or emulation, of digital objects and metadata? Why do you need all of these policies and procedures around a data or digital archive? Why can’t you just store the digital files and leave [...]

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ICPSR Releases “Guidelines for Effective Data Management Plans”

27 October 2010
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The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) has released their Guidelines for Effective Data Management Plans.
On the web site ICPSR writes this about these guidelines:

Many federal funding agencies, including NIH and most recently NSF, are requiring that grant applications contain data management plans for projects involving data collection. To support researchers in [...]

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War Data: a Short Profile of WikiLeaks

25 October 2010
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What happens when your data is leaked online? What happens when that data contradicts the official reports of a powerful government? What happens if that data is about a war, and the war is currently being fought?
Welcome to Wikileaks — an online site used by journalists and whistleblowers that provides public access to very private [...]

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Twitter Mood Predicts the Stock Market

22 October 2010
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The zeitgeist on Twitter predicts stock market behavior by several days, according to research by Johan Bollen, Huina Mao, and Xiao-Jun Zeng. They examined whether or not “measurements of collective mood states derived from large-scale Twitter feeds are correlated to the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIJA) over time”.
The short answer is, [...]

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How Your Personal Desk Space Defines You

15 October 2010
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How do you like to work? Do you move from place to place, with only a smart phone and your lap top? Is a desk an anachronism? Or, do you prefer to have one place to go to work that is, “yours”?
Aaron Trinder explores the concept of the desk, what it means to various workers, [...]

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Visualization of the Metadata Universe

22 June 2010
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Jenn Riley, who is currently the Metadata Librarian with the Indiana University Digital Library Program, sent out a post to the DC-General mailing list yesterday, announcing the release of the wonderful visualization of the metadata universe. I will let her words speak for her; I have included the text of her email below. This resource [...]

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