A Report on the Experiences of First Respondents to the Digging Into Data Challenge by Christa Williford and Charles Henry Research Design by Amy Friedlander
PublicData.eu will provide a single point of access to open, freely reusable datasets from numerous national, regional and local public bodies throughout Europe. PublicData.eu will harvest and federate European public datasets to enable users to search, query, process, cache and perform other automated tasks on the data from a single place.
Data Collective is a startup non-profit. It builds and supports technology to help people find, understand, and share data, advancing the knowledge and education of citizens everywhere.
The University of Virginia Library, Stanford University, the University of Hull, and Yale University. "Born Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship (AIMS)." inter-institutional framework for stewarding born-digital content. The group plans to process and preserve thirteen born-digital collections of noteworthy individuals and/or organizations and make them discoverable via Hydra, a Fedora-based solution, which can easily be installed and implemented by other institutions. A cohort of digital archivists has been established with a mandate to engender a digital archivist community of professionals both nationally and internationally, and they will disseminate broadly the lessons learned from the real work of processing and preserving a varied range of born-digital collections.
The Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB) is a national network intended to facilitate ecological and environmental research on biocomplexity. For scientists, the KNB is an efficient way to discover, access, interpret, integrate and analyze complex ecological data from a highly-distributed set of field stations, laboratories, research sites, and individual researchers.
TreeBASE is a repository of phylogenetic information, specifically user-submitted phylogenetic trees and the data used to generate them. TreeBASE accepts all types of phylogenetic data (e.g., trees of species, trees of populations, trees of genes) representing all biotic taxa. Data in TreeBASE are exposed to the public if they are used in a publication that is in press or published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, book, conference proceedings, or thesis.
The Joint Data Archiving Policy (JDAP) describes a requirement that supporting data be publicly available. This policy was adopted in a joint and coordinated fashion by many leading journals in the field of evolution in 2011, and JDAP has since been adopted by other journals across various disciplines. Additional journals are welcome to endorse and implement JDAP, or use it as a model. Journals that adopt JDAP often recommend Dryad as an appropriate data repository, however the JDAP initiative is distinct from Dryad.
DPN will create a federated approach to preservation of academic content. It will build upon the higher education community’s current investments to create sufficient diversity of preservation approaches to assure access to the digital scholarly record far into the future.
tool for helping people identify and locate online repositories of research data. Over 200 data repositories have been cataloged in Databib, with more being added every week. Users and bibliographers create and curate records that describe data repositories that users can browse and search.
The Geospatial Data Preservation Resource Center is an information resource and clearinghouse for communities interested in the preservation of geospatial data. The Resource Center aims to facilitate access to and usage of the range of information resources and tools now available to assist developers and managers of geospatial data and information in ensuring the long-term preservation of their valuable geospatial assets.
N. Gray, T. Carozzi, and G. Woan. (2012)cite arxiv:1207.3923 Comment: Project final report, 45 pages: see http://purl.org/nxg/projects/mrd-gw for project details, and http://purl.org/nxg/projects/mrd-gw/report for other document versions.