Key Considerations for Choosing a Repository

Good data management practices don’t only involve how you treat your data when you’re actively working with it, but also involve what you do when your research project has terminated and you are ready to archive and …

Link Roundup July 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!

Proposal for a ‘Virtuous Cycle’ of Data Citations

A group of colleagues from the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School recently published a commentary piece in Nature, “Credit data generators …

Link Roundup June 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!

NSF Encourages Open Science Principles

Several people in leadership positions for the NSF’s research directorates and the Offices of Integrative Activities and International Science & Engineering recently came together to write the latest Dear Colleague Letter, Effective Practices for Data. …

Tool: Recogito

“Nouae Africae delineatio”by sjrankin is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 What Is Recogito? Recogito, developed and maintained by the digital humanities initiative Pelagios Commons, is a tool for collaboratively annotating source text, tabular data, and …