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Information Science Detectives
“It’s kind of like trying to find someone on Facebook only knowing their hair color and favorite breakfast cereal.” This has been my clumsy way of explaining to my friends exactly what it is I’ve been doing lately and why I can’t come out and play in the tree fort with the other kids. Not […]
Why Share Data?
Raw data is the currency of science. It “pays” the publication bills, it fuels the inquiry. But once the publication is obtained and logged on the tenure checklist, what good is data? A busy scientist might say the data has served its purpose and bury it in their cemetery of computer files. Another could argue […]
On keeping an open science journal
June 23, 2010 by scootypuffrider
This certainly isn’t the diary I had in middle school with the broken lock from when I lost the key. For one thing, I wouldn’t mind if anyone actually reads it. It’s hard for me to imagine a time before the internet. Then again, what I have pictured usually involves Thomas Edison being a jerk and trying to vandalize […]
Measuring Major Player’s Policies
Last week I dove head first into extracting information about journal policies on sharing and citing data. I used the Reuters Citation Reports of 2008 + 2009 to compile all the journals with calculated impact factor in the categories ‘Ecology’ and ‘Evolutionary Biology I attempted to quantify these policies by creating fields with a binary […]
Poll Time
(In Case you have trouble viewing the Poll, plain text is below…Please vote or respond in the Comments Section) As a researcher, what prevents you from citing data according to best practices? -I don’t reuse data -I don’t know best practices for citing data -I definitely cite data according to best practices -I do cite […]
Summer tapestry of data citation research
June 17, 2010 by Heather Piwowar
Properly attributing the use and reuse of research data is important. We know it is important. We — scientists and social scientists and information scientists — have written editorials and blogs and policies and research papers calling for consistent and comprehensive data reuse attribution. We’ve developed, and continue to develop, standards to make data citation […]
Recycling in the data world
June 16, 2010 by scootypuffrider
Unlike Nic, I don’t have an excitement of introducing myself or going first. Fortunately, I get to post on Wednesday, the day when a good deal of us have shaken off the early lethargy of Monday and Tuesday. Like Sarah, I had an interesting time explaining to colleagues (as well as friends, families and random […]
Anecdotal Perceptions of DataSharing
Maybe I come from an arcane science, but as I explained this internship to my stream ecologist peers at a conference last week they responded with varying degrees of “huh?” Ok, I understand this project is well outside the scope of insects and flow dynamics, but most of my scientific peers have an admittedly poor […]
I always go first
I have always enjoyed going first when it comes to introductions; be it a new class, social outings or your everyday elevator ride. It has nothing to do with being an extrovert or even being a genuinely outgoing person, but because I’m really much more interested in other people and the operations of their networks […]
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June 30, 2010 by scootypuffrider
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