Assignment 1 recaps
Nicole: cliodynamics
Linda: dolphin communication
Teodora: psychologists
Jaklyn: sociocultural anthropology
DOAR directory of open access repositories
spreadsheets often used as lowest common denominator for sharing data, but spreadsheets are very dangerous when it comes to any sort of analysis
not intended to have any kind of statistical reliability
down to CSV, throws away the structure and the metadata
Lifecycle slides
Center for Embedded Network Sensing
$40M NSF funding plus more
10 years of funding ended in 2012
UCLA, USC, UCRiverside, UCMerced
Nathan Yow did the dataset programming on the CENS project
Libbie Stephenson
STATA SASS SPSS data definition files she saves in ASCII format
Upcoming class sessions
Borgman's next chapters will be uploaded soon
science, social sciences, humanities
most principles around data management and data sharing, then flowed through social sciences, then humanities
Chris will be via video next week
http://www.vala.org.au/conf2014 keynote address
Professor Christine Borgman
Professor and Presidential Chair, Information Studies, UCLA
VALA2014 Plenary Session 1
Christine L. Borgman is Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA. In 2012-13 she was the Oliver Smithies Visiting Fellow and Lecturer at Balliol College, University of Oxford, and also affiliated with the Oxford Internet Institute and the eResearch Centre. Prof. Borgman is the author of more than 200 publications in information studies, computer science, and communication. Her monographs, Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet (MIT Press, 2007) and From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked World (MIT Press, 2000), each won the Best Information Science Book of the Year award from the American Society for Information Science and Technology. She conducts data practices research with funding from the National Science Foundation, Sloan Foundation, and Microsoft Research. Current collaborations include Monitoring, Modeling, and Memory, The Transformation of Knowledge, Culture, and Practice in Data-Driven Science, and Empowering Long Tail Research.
We'll go over the readings and get an update on down-under data and data practices
Dr. Peter Darch PhD Comp Sci & Sociology
two short talks: 1. Zooniverse; 2.
25 pages double-spaced
make sure you touch on
1. roles of data in practices
2. reproducibility
3. kinds of collaboration
4. lifecycles
5. policies
6. existing data mgmt plans
7. do they work with archivists
submit as a group one single paper
report outline in week 7
tool: mantra tutorials interviews with researchers from lots of different fields; data curation profile