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Mantra Project launches online training courses for RDM
The MANTRA project has just pubished an online training course to help disseminate good practise in research data management at the University of Edinburgh and beyond. The online training course...
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Nature Magazine: Massive Fraud at Dutch Universities
The nature magazine reported that the famous Dutch psychologist Diederik Stapel had manipulated research data for years. A Report [in Dutch] claimed that the prominent researcher of Tilburg University...
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“A Surfboard for Riding the Wave”: KE action plan on research data presented
Following the report “Riding the Wave: How Europe can gain from the rising tide of scientific data” that was released 2010 by the high level expert group on research data, the Knowledge Exchange (KE)...
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Announcement: Workshop “Metadata and Persistent Identifiers for Social and...
The German Data Forum (RatSWD), the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, nestor – the German Competence network for digital preservation, the International Data Service Center of the...
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Psychology: The Rise of false-positive Findings
In the November 2011 Issue of Psychological Science, Joseph P. Simmons, Leif D. Nelson and Uri Simonsohn published an interesting article about the undisclosed flexibility in data collection, analysis,...
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EC-Survey on Scientific Information in the Digital Age: Open Science matters!
These days, the European Commission has just published the results of a consultation regarding accessibility and preservation of digital publications and research data in the European Union....
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Digital Curation Centre refreshed their catalogue of tools and services
The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has just refreshed and replenished their catalogue of tools and services for managing and curating research data. Beside a new look the catalogue has been overhauled...
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Canadian Research Data Registration Service launched
The National Research Council’s Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI), as Canada’s national science library, has launched a research data registration service that will...
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ODE Project: New Report on on Best Practices for Citability of Data and on...
With the ever increasing availability of data, the best way to ensure its sharing and re-use is becoming a prominent issue. Finding data and understanding data are the first steps in such a process and...
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GESIS publishes “Guidelines for the Management of Research Data – Social...
GESIS – the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences has just released the technical report “Guidelines for the management of research data – social sciences survey data.” The report is available in...
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New Knowledge Exchange Publication: “The Value of Research Data”
Last week I’ve been in Berlin and took part in the workshop “Making Data Count: Research data availability and research assessment” hosted by Knowledge Exchange (KE), a 2005 established cooperation...
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English translation of the Project synthesis “Framework for an...
The German project RADIESCHEN / radish (Rahmenbedingungen einer disziplinübergreifenden Forschungsdateninfrastruktur /Framework for an inter-disciplinary research data infrastructure) has published the...
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Endorse the Open Economics Principles!
As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, the Open Economics Working Group has just finalised the Open Economic Principles. Now it is also possible to endorse these principles online. In an e-mail...
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EDaWaX: State of affairs
As you might have noticed, currently I don’t have much time to publish new articles on the blog. The reason is that our project is currently publishing a lot of the results we achieved in the course of...
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Documentation of EDaWaX’s CKAN-Application: First draft available
One of the primary objectives of the EDaWaX-project is the development of a software application which intends to facilitate the management of research data for journals in the social sciences (and...
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New KE-report: ‘The Evolving Landscape of Federated Research Data...
Knowledge Exchange, a consortium of six national organisations in Europe tasked with developing infrastructures and services to enable the use of digital technologies to improve higher education and...
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