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 …
Datapoints: the RDS blog
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 …
Research Bazaar Call for Art Submissions
Art has an important role to play in helping the public make sense of complex data in new and exciting ways. Able to see the patterns in the data, artists and data scientists alike, translate information into …
The Data Science Research Bazaar Seeks Submissions
Cross-posted from the Data Science Hub The Data Science Hub is excited to invite you to participate in the inaugural Data Science Research Bazaar by submitting your ideas to present! UW-Madison’s Data Science Research Bazaar is a …
Link Roundup September 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!