May 2016 Link Roundup

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Brianna Marshall

The newly created Digital Curation Network will determine how to effectively implement, assess, and sustain a shared staffing model for providing data curation services.

Researchers share solutions for collaborative data sharing in outbreak situations on F1000.

The Education Department at the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) provides several free, self paced data skills tutorials about working with large, spatio-temporal data.

Cameron Cook

There’s a handy visual overview of the differences between open licenses at choosealicense.com.

A great brief comparison of  the options and flexibility of 12 data visualization tools through one dataset/scatterplot. The same author also has a post comparing charting libraries.

This Nature article discusses how digital forensics is being used to save data from hardware and software obsolescence. It also serves as a reminder as to how important it is to take an active role in preserving your data – be aware of formats and migrate!