Documents and Reports - 2010

• REVIEW OF THE STATE OF THE ART OF THE DIGITAL CURATION OF RESEARCH DATA ALEX BALL, 4th May 2010
• NSF to Ask Every Grant Applicant for Data Management Plan
  Science, May 5, 2010
• Digital Curation and Preservation Policies in Scottish HEIs: Survey Results
• Preservation and Curation in Institutional Repositories. Alex Ball, March 10, 2010
• Survey of Digital Preservation Practices in Canada: Final Report
• The Digital Divide: Assessing Organizations' Preparations for Digital Preservation
• DuraCloud to Test Cloud Technologies for Digital Preservation
• Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography
• JISC Final Report for Keeping Research Data Safe2.
• BioTorrents: A File Sharing Service for Scientific Data
• Datadotgc.ca is a new website that aims to "promote open data and help share data that has already been liberated"
• Closing the Digital Curation Gap Project
• Digital Curation: Practice, Promise, and Prospects. Proceedings of DigCCurr2009
• Research Data: Unseen Opportunities
  An AwarenessToolkit commissioned by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)
• 7 business models for linked data
• Data Dimensions: Disciplinary Differences in Research Data Sharing, Reuse and Long term Viability : A comparative review based on sixteen case studies With a foreword and recommendations by Chris Rusbridge and Liz Lyon
  DCC SCARP SYNTHESIS REPORT, Commissioned by the Digital Curation Centre, 18 January 2010
• Data is at the heart of new science ecosystem
  Rafael Sidi. Research Information: February/March 2010
• Developing the UK's e-infrastructure for science and innovation
• Main Drivers for Successful Re-use of Research Data
  Workshop in Berlin, 23 - 24 September 2009
• New Memory Material May Hold Data For One Billion Years
  Science Daily, May 26, 2009
• Online point of access for UK government-held non-personal data
• Research Data Access and Preservation Summit
• Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Information
  Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, February 2010

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ICSTI 2009 References

• ICSTI 2009 Conference – Managing Data for Science
• Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access
• Conducting a data interview. Witt and Carlson, Purdue Libraries, 2007
• Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery, NSF, March 2007
• DIGITAL PRESERVATION POLICIES STUDY Part 1: Final Report October 2008, Neil Beagrie, Najla Semple, Peter Williams, and Richard Wright
• e-Science curation report: Data curation for e-Science in the UK JISC, 2003.
• The expanding digital universe : a forecast of worldwide information growth through 2010, An IDC White Paper, sponsored by EMC, March 2007
• Harnessing the power of digital data for science and society, Report of the Interagency Working Group on Digital Data to the Committee on Science of the National Science and Technology Council, January 2009
• Infrastructure planning and data curation: a comparative study of international approaches to enabling the sharing of research data version 1.6, JISC Paper, 30 November 2008
• Knowledge Management in Post-Secondary Education: Universities
• Long-Lived Digital Data Collections Enabling Research and Education in the 21st Century, National Science Board, September 2005
• Mapping Knowledge Domains: Mapping knowledge domains (2004), Richard M. Shiffrin and Katy Börner
• Memorandum of Understanding, 2 March 2009, Paris, European Initiative to Facilitate Access to Research Data
• Network Science (2007), Katy Börner, Soma Sanyal and Alessandro Vespignani
• Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science: Proceedings of an International Symposium (2004), Julie M. Esanu and Paul F. Uhlir, Editors, U.S. National Committee for CODATA, National Research Council
• Open Data for Global Science: A Review of Recent Developments in National and International Scientific Data Policies and Related Proposals, Paul F. Uhlir, 2007
• THE ROLE OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DATA AND INFORMATION IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN : PROCEEDINGS OF A SYMPOSIUM (2003), Julie M. Esanu and Paul F. Uhlir, Editors
• Science & innovation investment framework 2004 - 2014, H.M. Treasury, July 2004
• The Scope of Science for the International Polar Year, 2007-2008
• Skills, Role & Career Structure of Data Scientists & Curators: Assessment of Current Practice & Future Needs, JISC, July 2008
• To Stand the Test of Time: Long-Term Stewardship of Digital Data Sets in Science and Engineering, A report to the National Science Foundation from the ARL Workshop on New Collaborative Relationships: The Role of Academic Libraries in the Digital Data Universe, 26-27 September 2006, Arlington VA
• Towards the National Virtual Observatory, A Report Prepared by the NVO Science Definition Team, April 2002
• Visualizing Knowledge Domains (2003), Katy Börner

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Documents and Reports - 2009 and previous

2009

• ARL Releases E-Science Survey Preliminary Results and Resources. 17 November 2009
• The Australian National Data Service and Metadata -- Costs and Benefits Benefits, Ross Wilkinson
  For the 2009 NAA/ABS Metadata Seminar
  May 27th, 2009
• Board on Research Data and Information to sponsor Public Symposium: Scientific Data for Evidence Based Policy and Decision Making
• Canadian IPY 2007-2008 Data Policy (PDF Format - 44 Kb)
• CISTI'S Activities in Support of Scientific Data Management in Canada 2008-2010
  M. Zborowski, Data Science Journal Vol. 8 (2009) pp.27-33
• Curating Atmospheric Data for Long Term Use: Infrastructure and Preservation Issues for the Atmospheric Sciences Community, June 2009
  Digital Curation Centre SCARP Project Case Studies No. 2
• A Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians,
  Robert Lee Hotz, The Wall Street Journal, August 28, 2009
• Data Management Plan Content Checklist: Draft Template for Consultation, Digital Curation Centre (DCC), June 17, 2009
• Data publication: towards a database of everything, Vincent S Smith
  BMC Research Notes 2009
• Database preservation, Digital Preservation Europe briefing paper (2009)
• Data start flowing from deep ocean,
  TIMES COLONIST (VICTORIA) (FINAL), A3, 2009/12/09
  Judith Lavoie, Times columnist
• Digital Repositories Roadmap Review: towards a vision for research and learning in 2013
• The diverse and exploding digital universe : An Updated Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth Through 2011, An IDC White Paper, sponsored by EMC, March 2008
• Dryad : Scientific data repository gets $2.18 million boost, UNC School of Information and Library Science, May 8, 2009
• Duke University, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have launched a two-year project to share digital data
• Establishing Trust in a Chain of Preservation : The TRAC Checklist Applied to a Data Staging Repository (DataStaR),
  D-Lib Magazine
  September/October 2009
  Volume 15 Number 9/10
• "Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age.", National Academy of Sciences
• EScience in Practice:Lessons from the Cornell Web Lab, D-Lib Magazine, May/June 2009
• EXPERIMENTING WITH THE TRIAL OF A RESEARCH DATA AUDIT: SOME PRELIMINARY FINDINGS ABOUT DATA TYPES, ACCESS TO DATA AND FACTORS FOR LONG TERM PRESERVATION, Panayiota Polydoratou
  University College London, Library Services
  Proceedings from ELPUB 2009, June 10 – 12
• Exploring Research Data Hosting at the HKUST Institutional Repository ,
  Gabrielle K.W. Wong
  Serials Review, Volume 35, Issue 3, Pages 117-198 (September 2009)
• The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery: Presenting the first broad look at the rapidly emerging field of data-intensive science
• Framework for Data Management (PDF Format - 95 Kb), Government of Canada – Program for International Polar Year, January 10, 2008
• Funding of the Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries' Data Conservancy project.
  Press Release, October 2, 2009.
• A Future for Our Digital Memory: Permanent Access to Information in the Netherlands - English language summary
  (PDF), The Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation, 2009
• Harnessing the power of digital data for science and society, Report of the Interagency Working Group on Digital Data to the Committee on Science of the National Science and Technology Council, January 2009
• Harvard's DASH for Open Access, September 1, 2009
• Infrastructure planning and data curation: a comparative study of international approaches to enabling the sharing of research data version 1.6, JISC Paper, 30 November 2008
• International Journal of Digital Curation: Issue on data management and preservation, Volume 4, Number 1, 2009
• International Science Council to Revamp World Data Centers: New system seeks global coordination, data access for developing nations., July 2, 2009.
• Investigating Data Management Practices in Australian Universities, Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories, July 2008
• Keeping Research Data Safe 2: The identification of long-lived digital datasets for the purpose of cost analysis, Project Plan Version 1.0, Date: 29 April 2009
  A JISC-funded Project
• Let's Liberate 'Grey Data' & Grey Literature,
  The Search Principle Blog
  Dean Giustini
  14 September 2009
• Lifespan Initiative for the Research and Data Archive Repository, A project of the JISC Integrated Information Environment committee, April 1, 2009
• Managing and sharing data : a best practices guide for researchers, UK Data Archive, 2009
• Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research's Open Access Policy
• Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Data Policy Handbook, Version 2.2 (December 2002)
• Nature, vol 461, no. 7261 (10 September 2009).,
  Special section on Data Sharing
• Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) announces new geospatial data and health informatics storage and research tools, July 3, 2009
• Open Science at Web-Scale: Optimising Participation and Predictive Potential, JISC report, November 2009
• Otago Biodiversity Data Management Project, University of Otago Library
• PARSE.Insight, Deliverable D2.1, Draft Road Map, A project partly funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme, Research Infrastructures, 2007
• Patterns of Information Use and Exchange: Case Studies of Researchers in Life Sciences,
  British Library and the Research Information Network (RIN), Nov. 2, 2009
• Policy-making for Research Data in Repositories: A Guide, by Ann Green, Stuart Macdonald, Robin Rice
  DISC-UK Data Share Project, supported by JISC
  May 2009
• Interagency Working Group on Digital Data
  Presentation to the Committee on Science IWG and SC Chairs – October 26, 2007, IWGDD Co-Chairs:
  Cita Furlani, NIST
  Chris Greer, NSF
  Chuck Romine, OSTP
• Public Access Policies, SPEC Kit 311, Published by ARL, SPEC Kit 311, Published by ARL
• Publishing Open Government Data
  W3C Working Draft 8 September 2009
• A Reflection on the Structure and Process of the Web of Data
  Marko A. Rodriguez,
  Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,
  Volume 35, Number 6, August/September 2009
• Research Data Management Guidance
  University of Edinburgh,
  Information Services, August 28, 2009
• Research Data Preservation and Access: The Views of Researchers, Neal Beagrie et al Ariadne, Issue 60, July 2009
• The Research Library's Role in Digital Repository Services, Final Report of the ARL Digital Repository Issues Task Force, January 2009
• Share : the newsletter of the Australian National Data Service
• SHERPA DP2: Developing Services for Archiving and Preservation in a Distributed Environment-Final Report
  JISC, April 2009
• "Simon Hodson of JISC examines how technology and funding policies have changed the ways that researchers share data"
• Symposium on the Data Sharing Plans and on the Scientific Benefits of Data Sharing in GEOSS*, 16 November 2009
• Toward Implementation of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems Data Sharing Principles,
  Journal of Space Law, Volume 35, number 1;
  the CODATA Data Science Journal, Volume 9.
• Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data,
  Ashlee Vance, October 11, 2009
• The University's Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship - A Call to Action, February 2009, Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, The Coalition for Networked Information, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges
• [U.S.] Government takes on new data services role,
  Nextgov: Technology and the business of government, September 9, 2009
• "We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables", OECD Publishing White Paper, OECD Publishing, 2009
• World's Largest Ocean Observatory Nears Completion:
  Canada is about to take the world on a 25-year non-stop research expedition — into the deep ocean., Physorg.com, July 6, 2009.

2008 and previous

• Agenda for Developing E-Science in Research Libraries, ARL e-science report, November 2007.
• Alliance for Permanent Access 2008 Conference Proceedings, Conference held Nov. 4, 2008, Budapest, Hungary.
• Canadian Digital Information Strategy, Libraries and Archives Canada, October 2007 (Draft)
• Curating Brain Images in a Psychiatric Research Group: Infrastructure and Preservation Issues, SCARP Case Study No. 1, Angus Whyte, University of Edinburgh; Digital Curation Centre, Nov. 11, 2008.
• Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery, NSF, March 2007
• Data Preservation, Reuse and (Open) Access in High Energy Physics: Briefing Paper, Digital Preservation Europe, Feb. 2009.
• Data Sharing: The Next Generation, Declan Butler, Nature v. 446, p. 10-11, 1 March 2007
• Database Archiving, Heiko Müller, University of Edinburgh; Digital Curation Centre, Feb. 2009.
• Dealing with Data: Roles, Rights, Responsibilities and Relationships - Consultancy Report, Dr. Liz Lyon, UKOLN, University of Bath, 19 June 2007
• Digital Preservation for Long-Term Environmental Monitoring: Briefing Paper, Digital Preservation Europe, Feb. 2009.
• Digital Repositories Roadmap: looking forward, Heery, R. and Powell, A. UKOLN, University of Bath; Eduserv Foundation, April 2006
• Duke University, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have launched a two-year project to share digital data
• Making Research and Education Cyberinfrastructure Real, Fran Berman, in Educause Review, vol. 43, no. 4, July/August 2008
• National Consultation on Access to Scientific Research Data: Final Report, David F. Strong and Peter B. Leach, 31 January, 2005
• National Data Archive Consultation - Building Infrastructure for Access to and Preservation of Research Data. Final Report, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the National Archives of Canada, June 2002
• Nature, vol. 455, no. 7209 (4 September 2008). Special section on big data
• A New Value Equation Challenge: The Emergence of eResearch and Roles for Research Libraries, Richard E. (Rick) Luce, in No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century, August 2008
• Open Access to and Reuse of Research Data — the State of the Art in Finland, Finnish Social Science Data Archive, 2008
• Open Science at Web-Scale: Optimising Participation and Predictive Potential, JISC report, November 2009
• Patterns of Information Use and Exchange: Case Studies of Researchers in Life Sciences
  British Library and the Research Information Network (RIN), Nov. 2, 2009
• Policy on Access to Research Outputs, Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), September 2007
• Proceedings of eResearch Australasia 2008, Conference held Sept. 28-Oct. 3, 2008, Melbourne, Australia.
• Recommendations of the Council concerning Access to Research Data from Public Funding, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 14 December, 2006
• Reinventing Science Librarianship: Models for the Future, Proceedings from the ARL/CNI Fall Forum, Oct. 16-17, Arlington, Virginia
• Scholarly Communication in High-Energy Physics: Past, Present and Future Innovations, Robert Aymar, CERN, July 2008.
• Scoping Digital Repository Services for Research Data Management: Institutional and National Services for Research Data Management Workshop, Workshop held at Oxford Saïd Business School, Oct. 20, 2008.
• Skills, Role & Career Structure of Data Scientists & Curators: Assessment of Current Practice & Future Needs, JISC, July 2008
• Supporting the "Scholarship" in E-Scholarship, Christine L. Borgman, Educause Review, Nov./Dec. 2008.
• Sustaining the Digital Investment: Issues and Challenges of Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation: Interim Report, Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, Dec. 2008.
• Symposium on the Data Sharing Plans and on the Scientific Benefits of Data Sharing in GEOSS*, 16 November 2009.
• To share or not to share: publication and quality assurance of research data outputs
• To Stand the Test of Time: Long-Term Stewardship of Digital Data Sets in Science and Engineering. A report to the National Science Foundation from the ARL Workshop on New Collaborative Relationships: The Role of Academic Libraries in the Digital Data Universe, 26-27 September 2006, Arlington VA
• Stewardship of digital research data: principles and guidelines
• Towards a Cost-Effective National Data Preservation Plan, Francine Berman. June 2006. Availability unknown; Quoted in To Stand the Test of Time
• Towards a data sharing culture: recommendations for leadership from academic health centers
• Venturous Australia: Building Strength in Innovation, 2008
• Wellcome Trust Position Statement in support of Open and Unrestricted Access to Published Research, 14 March 2007

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Presentations

• Curation of Scientific Data: Challenges for Institutions and their Repositories, Chris Rusbridge presentation to The Adaptable Repository, 3 May 2007, Sydney, Australia.
• CANARIE Network Enabled Platforms Overview: The convergence of Cyber-Infrastructure and Next Generation Internet, Bill St. Arnaud
• Building a National Cyberinfrastructure for Data, Francine Berman, San Diego Supercomputer Center, May 2006

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Links

• Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access
• Community Information Database (CID) is a free internet-based tool providing consistent and reliable social, economic, and demographic data for all communities and regions across Canada.
• Data.gov, The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government (US).
  Launched May 21st, 2009
• ICSTI 2009 Conference – Managing Data for Science
• ODESI: Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure Initiative

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Communication and Networking Resources

• cnc-codata@lists.cisti.nrc.ca, Canadian National Committee for CODATA (CNC/CODATA) discussion list, covering data-related issues within the Canadian context. Subscribe
• codata_international@kbx7.de, ICSU Committee for Data (CODATA) discussion list, covering data-related issues at an international level. Subscribe
• esi@mit.edu, Engineering and Science Informatics discussion list, managed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This includes, but is not limited to, preliminary audits, pilot projects, planning for data management, the creation of standards and workflows, use of new and old technologies, the social aspects of data sharing, and moving data into a system in which it can be preserved and reused.
• rtd-scientific-publication@ec.europa.eu, Mailing list of the European Commission's Research Directorate-General, for issues pertaining to access to scientific information

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