The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently released their final NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing (DMS Policy) requiring the submission of Data Management and Sharing Plans and compliance with the approved Plans for …
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Link Roundup December 2019
Clare Michaud The Data Science Research Bazaar is still open for registration—until January 2! It’s free for UW-Madison students, faculty, and staff. We have also extended the deadline for submissions to the art exhibit until …
Version Control for Research Projects
Working on individual or collaborative projects of any size requires keeping your files organized. Inconsistent file management can result in lost work, redundancies, errors in the final products, or difficulty for others building on your …
An Introduction to Web Scraping for Research
Like web archiving, web scraping is a process by which you can collect data from websites and save it for further research or preserve it over time. Also like web archiving, web scraping can be …
Link Roundup November 2019
Jennifer Patiño World Digital Preservation Day is November 7th and this year’s theme is “At-Risk Digital Materials.” Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa uncovered a glitch in a computer program that produced different …
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 …
An Introduction to Web Archiving for Research
Web archiving is the practice of collecting and preserving resources from the web. The most well known and widely used web archive is the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive was launched in 1996 …