The NIH Office of Data Strategy recently announced the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI). This new initiative seeks to supplement the subject-specific NIH data repositories available to NIH-funded researchers with 6 generalist repositories. These expanded …
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Resources for Sharing and Discovering Geospatial Data
By Jaime Martindale, Map & Geospatial Data Librarian Resources for Sharing and Discovering Geospatial Data Geospatial data is digital geographic content that represents or describes features/phenomena on the earth. It’s useful because it gives us …
Share your data with UW-Madison’s Dryad membership!
Information adapted from Dryad. We are excited to announce that UW-Madison is now a member of Dryad, an open-access data repository where you can publish and publicly share your research data. This membership was pursued …
The CARE Priniciples for Indigenous Data Governance – #BeFAIRandCARE
In our introductory post to our Practicing Data Equity series, we mentioned that research institutions, especially research intensive or predominantly white institutions, often wield inequitable power in research partnerships with communities. Historically research projects across …
Practicing Data Equity: A New RDS Series
As we celebrate Black History Month, it’s a critical time to engage in actively anti-racist and social justice-focused work. However, it’s not enough to celebrate and focus on this work during one month every year. …
Link Roundup October 2019
In this series, members of the RDS team share links to research data-related stories, resources, and news that caught their eye each month. Feel free to share your favorite stories with us on Twitter @UWMadRschSvcs! Cameron Cook UW Madison’s Information …
Research Bazaar Call for Art Submissions
Art has an important role to play in helping the public make sense of complex data in new and exciting ways. Able to see the patterns in the data, artists and data scientists alike, translate information into …