juillet 2020

« This paper describes a pilot project conducted at a mid-sized research university to integrate an Open Badge into the institutional repository (IR) alongside research articles. (….) »

« (…) The Data Science Life Cycle introduced here can be used as a framing principle to guide decision making in a variety of educational settings, pointing the way on topics such as: whether to develop new data science courses (and which ones) or rely on existing course offerings or a…

« IFLA’s Document Delivery and Resource-Sharing Professional Unit (IFLA DDRS) has launched a new service to support the sharing of resources across borders as a way of relieving some of the disruption caused by the pandemic. (…) »

« This is the first of two related posts. The second will describe our current thinking about open access. (Watch for it around Open Access Week, 2020.) We’re looking forward and want to start by showing where we’ve come from.
For now, this brief history focuses mostly on Harvard’s thinking…

« Data crossing seeks the extraction of novel knowledge through correlations and dependencies among heterogeneous data, and is considered a key process in sustainable science to push back the current frontiers of knowledge, especially to address challenges such as the socioeconomic impacts of climate change. To tackle such complex challenges, interdisciplinary…

« Viewpoint: The success of open science depends on protecting academic data from commercial exploitation
As open science gains momentum, universities must maintain their academic independence by arming themselves against possible takeover of critical infrastructure, research information and data by private parties.
If universities simply make their data generally…

« The importance of research data has grown as researchers across disciplines seek to ensure reproducibility, facilitate data reuse, and acknowledge data as a valuable scholarly commodity. Researchers are under increasing pressure to share their data for validation and reuse. Adopting good data management practices allows researchers to efficiently locate their…

« (…) Le manifeste synthétise et prolonge les résultats de l’atelier sur les perspectives de « 10 ans de Science du Web » qui s’est tenu au Schloss Dagstuhl du 24 au 29 juin…

« Communication is an important mechanism to increase the uptake of responsible research assessment practices at universities and funding agencies. To help, DORA brings together public and private research funders for a virtual meeting each quarter to discuss new policies, practices, and pilot experiments for assessing research. On Thursday, June 25,…

(…) Project team: Marjorie Burghart, Conal Tuohy
The aim of this project was to develop an open source editor jEdit as TEI-aware and TEI-friendly, in order to offer a basic but viable alternative to commercial software for students learning to encode in TEI and also scholars with simple needs…