Starting on May 5, the University College London will be offering a free 8-week, online course on digital curation. The introductory class will cover the development of digital curation along with the main models currently being utilized, as well as a review of the skills and competencies needed to succeed in the field.
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Genetics Data in the Classroom Roundtable Today
The Institute for Biology Education will be hosting a roundtable on working with students and their data as part of the Biology Instruction Series. The session is expected to discuss how students use genetics data in the classroom and explore ways
that instructors can incorporate disciplinary uses of data in their courses.
Long-term Data Archival Service Now Available at UW
This month the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) made available the Bucky Backup Archive service for faculty, staff, researchers and departments who need a low cost, managed service for long-term data archival. Bucky Backup Archive …
Tools: Archiving Electronic Lab Notebooks
Electronic Lab Notebooks are becoming important data management tools for researchers in a number of fields. Since ELNs are replacing paper lab notebooks in many labs, can we anticipate a future in which boxes and …
Databib and re3data.org to Merge Registry Services
In what they believe will reduce duplication of their registry services, research data repository search tool Databib (datbib.org) and the repository indexing service re3data.org will merge into one project by the end of 2015. The …
Registration for U of C Data Symposium is Open
Registration for the 3rd Biennial Kathleen A. Zar Symposium, Data: Collecting, Using, Managing, is now open. The symposium, sponsored by the University of Chicago, will focuses on the impact of data on researchers, libraries and …
Tools: Colectica for Excel
Many researchers use spreadsheets to collect, analyze and archive their research data, but spreadsheets are notoriously poor data management tools that are subject to common and costly errors. As part of an ongoing series by RDS that examines the use of spreadsheets in research, the following slide deck (RDS_brownbag_20140313) is from a presentation by RDS personnel advocating for best practices for use of spreadsheets in quantitative research.