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, …
Datapoints: the RDS blog
Share Your Story at the Data Story Slam!
The Data Story Slam, an informal social held in conjunction with the 2025 Data Science Research Bazaar, will take place on Thursday, February 27, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Attendees are invited to share and hear …
Love Data Week: Research Data Resources You Should Know
International Love Data Week, which takes place February 10 – 14, 2025, is the perfect time to get familiar with some of the resources for managing and sharing research data that are available at UW-Madison. …
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 …
Using Data Dashboards for Research
by Rahil Virani What are data dashboards? Imagine driving a car without a dashboard. You wouldn’t know your speed, fuel level, or engine temperature, making it nearly impossible to drive safely or efficiently. In much …
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 …
Service Design: What is it?
by Aatisha Cyrill The UW Madison’s Center of User Experience conducted its UW Design Community virtual session on the topic “Find gaps and share your ideas through Service Design” on March 18, 2024. The speakers …