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Tool: Protégé

Posted on January 14, 2020

What is Protégé?  Protégé is an ontology description platform developed at Stanford’s Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR) for creating, sharing, and visualizing web ontologies and taxonomies. Ontologies and taxonomies are descriptors for use in many instances, …

Posted in UncategorizedTagged Data Sharing, Metadata, Semantic Web, Tools

Link Roundup January 2020

Posted on January 14, 2020

Jennifer Patiño Twitter has created “Twitter data for academic research”, a resource that provides academics with access to developer accounts, APIs, data integration, analysis, and visualization as well as infrastructure and hosting. A research team …

Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cybersecurity, data curation, Data Management Lifecycle, Data Sharing, Managing Data, Metadata, Social Media

Free E-book on Data Science

Posted on March 21, 2013

A new book by Jeffrey Stanton from Syracuse University School of Information Studies, An Introduction to Data Science, is now available for free download. The book–which uses R code to illustrate examples–begins with a clear …

Posted in Education & TrainingTagged Data Science, eBooks, Managing Data, Metadata

DDI Workshop

Posted on November 15, 2012

Documenting research data and processes is becoming highly relevant in the age of Big Data. The Data Documentation Initiative (http://www.ddialliance.org/what) is an effort to standardize how social science metadata are described, thus leading to more …

Posted in EventsTagged Big Data, Conference & Workshop Reports, Metadata

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