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 …
Managing Data
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 …
Tool: Tropy
What Is Tropy? Tropy is a free and open-source software tool for the collection, organization, description, and sharing of digital photographs that researchers take during their research. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the …
New Tools From the Workshop on Open Citations
From September 3-5, the Workshop on Open Citations was held in Bologna: researchers, scholarly publishers, funders, policy makers, and advocates for open citations gathered to present new tools and practices for the creation, management, and …
HIPAA: What Does It Mean for Medical Research Data?
Written by Jarrod Irwin Researchers across disciplines care about the security and privacy of their data–especially those with data containing personally identifiable information, as even limited combinations of certain data points can lead to the …
Tools: Interview with Mark Igra, LabKey Server
Earlier this year, I spoke with Mark Igra, a partner at LabKey Software, and learned more about how LabKey Server works and how it’s used by researchers. Q: What types of research is LabKey Server …
Tools: Google Takeout
The UW-Madison has implemented a utility for exporting your files out of your UW Google Drive account (as well as YouTube and Google Contacts) in one step. This is useful for archiving files in your …