Oh the horror! It’s enough to make our spreadsheets lose their headers! Do you have stories of devastating data loss, failed saves, daring rescues, or disturbed vibe coding? Did saving to the cloud end up …
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Automating DOI Creation: Enhancing Efficiency and Reducing Manual Effort
The Challenge of Manual DOI Creation Managing research data efficiently is crucial in academic institutions, and Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) play a key role in ensuring research outputs are easily accessible, citable, and trackable. However, …
Overview of UW-Madison Research Data in Dryad: 2008 – 2024
The UW-Madison Libraries became members of Dryad, a non-profit, community-driven data repository and organization, in June of 2021. While Research Data Services has been recommending Dryad as a trustworthy generalist data repository solution to campus …
Transforming Qualitative Research with QDR
by Aatisha Cyrill Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) is an invaluable tool for researchers to store, share, and reuse qualitative data. For many researchers, particularly in the social sciences, collecting qualitative data has traditionally been a …
Link Roundup April 2024
Read the article Just One Byte from Letters and Sciences magazine about the ways UW-Madison researchers Annette Zimmerman, James Goodrich, and Clinton Castro are exploring ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence, the amassing of data …
Link Roundup June 2023
Nature recently published a statement on why it will not allow the use of generative AI in images and video, saying that it is a matter of transparency and integrity and pointing to the fact that …
Quick Resources for Learning Data Management
With ongoing changes to federal requirements for data management and sharing, people at all stages of familiarity are needing to quickly refresh or learn new skills. We know that figuring out how to improve your …