Highlights from the RDM Programme Progress Report: November 2015 – January 2016 TAGS: DataShare | DataVault | MOOC Data Seal of Approval have awarded DataShare Trusted Repository status; their assessment of our service can be read at https://assessment.datasealofapproval.org/assessment_175/seal/html/. In addition a major new release of DataShare was completed …Continue reading →

Open up! On the scientific and public benefits of data sharing TAGS: open data | Open Research | open science Research published a year ago in the journal Current Biology found that 80 percent of original scientific data obtained through publicly-funded research is lost within two decades of publication. The …Continue reading →

Data and ethics TAGS: arts data | big data | Humanities data | open data As an academic support person, I was surprised to find myself invited onto a roundtable about ‘The Ethics of Data-Intensive Research’. Although as a data librarian I’m certainly qualified to …Continue reading →