Open Access Priorities
Michael Eisen is basically right on the fundamentals: There would be a huge conflict of interest if compliance with the White House Open Access (OA) mandate were left to publishers instead of...
View ArticleWord Processing: The Enduring Killer App
I started writing before computers were commonly available. But, unlike some who are nostalgic for the era of pen and ink, I feel only joy about relying on machines in my struggle to communicate with...
View ArticleMapping the Well-Being of Children in the District of Columbia
Last year, DC Action for Children, in partnership with DataKind and a group of dedicated pro-bono data scientists, created an interactive, web-based tool to take traditional child well-being indicators...
View ArticleAnd the Winner Is… Announcing the 2013 NDSA Innovation Award Winners
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Strategic Initiatives Manager at Metropolitan New York Library Council, National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group co-chair and a...
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MIA: Metadata
"Digital preservation is more than the technical preservation of a file ... it is also about providing readers with the context surrounding it to promote authenticity." Principle 2, Requirement 8...
View ArticleBefore You Were Born: We had Online Communities
My first foray into online communities was in the mid- to late-1980s, when the organization I worked for got some of its online services through UCLA. We got limited access to email and access to the...
View ArticleiPREShack – SPRUCE, OPF and CURATEcamp hackathon at iPRES2013
Registration for iPRES and signup for iPREShack is now open. An event page is here:http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SPR/iPREShack+-+SPRUCE%2C+OPF+and+CURATEcamp+hackathon+at+iPRES2013 The event...
View ArticleCURATEcamp Exhibition: Exhibition in and of the Digital Age
http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/05/curatecamp-exhibition-exhibition-in-and-of-the-digital-age/ "Alongside this year’s Digital Preservation 2013 meeting, I am excited to announce that...
View ArticleTowards a Digital Preservation Policy For Museums
The following is a guest post by Madeline Sheldon, a 2013 Junior Fellow with NDIIPP. Earlier this week, I visited the Smithsonian Institution to attend a talk by Courtney Johnson, Director of The Dowse...
View ArticleDigital Preservation for the People!
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Strategic Initiatives Manager at Metropolitan New York Library Council, National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group co-chair and a...
View ArticleData Expedition: Quest for South Africa’s secret national security sites
Hark, do you hear that? There be dragons in them hills surrounding Lake Orta just north of Milan, Italy. Or maybe it’s the collective roar of all 134 attendees of Tactical Technology Collective’s 2013...
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The final SPRUCE digital preservation Mashup: how we got on
Last week we assembled a group of 30 practitioners and developers and and got down to some practical digital preservation work in what we call a SPRUCE Project Mashup. We've run quite a few of them...
View Article3 Things to Change the World for Personal Digital Archiving
I am relentlessly optimistic about the future of personal digital archiving. There is simply too much at stake, in my mind, to feel anything but hopeful. Let’s face it, though: it’s hard. A...
View ArticleData roundup, July 10
We’re rounding up data news from the web each week. If you have a data news tip, send it to us at schoolofdata@okfn.org. TOOLS, COURSES, AND EVENTS You have four more days to apply for the OKCon 2013...
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‘inspirience’ the 3D
[FRENCH]Topic: Ateliers et Démonstrations de Solutions 3D Collaboratives et Immersives pour l'IndustrieDate, Place: 7-8 November, Bordeaux (France)Link: http://inspiriencethe3d.com/# This event is...
View ArticleUsing public data to flag tax avoidance schemes?
This post was jointly written by Jonathan Gray (@jwyg), Director of Policy and Ideas at the Open Knowledge Foundation and Tony Hirst (@psychemedia), Data Storyteller at the Open Knowledge Foundation’s...
View ArticleOmeka 2.1 Release Candidate, updated Berlin theme, and a RESTful API
The Omeka team is very happy to announce important releases: an overhauled version of the popular Berlin theme, and a release candidate of Omeka 2.1 The updated Berlin theme features much cleaner HTML5...
View ArticleEven the Simplest Data Needs Cleaning Sometimes… A (Slightly Broken?!)...
Once a week, Google’s search anthropologist Dan Russell posts a search related challenge to his SearchReSearch blog. This week’s challenge revolved around finding, and then visualising, literacy rates...
View ArticleOpenRefine/LODRefine – A Power Tool for Cleaning Data
In Even the Simplest Data Needs Cleaning Sometimes… A (Slightly Broken?!) Example Using Google Spreadsheets, we saw how Google Spreadsheets could be used as a tool for cleaning a simple dataset, a...
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More Fell Fallout From Finch Folly: The Royal Society Relapse
announces:"Remaining a fair player, The Royal Society ensures that published open access articles bearing a publication fee are deducted from subscription prices through its Transparent Pricing...
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