Posted: June 21st, 2012 | Author: Sven | Filed under: Data Policy, EDaWaX | Tags: criteria, Replication, WP2 | 2 Comments »
In our analyses for work package 2 we collected some criteria to evaluate the quality of the data policies we found in our sample.
It was important to identify some core requirements that aim to ensure the replicability of economic research. This was not an easy task, because we had to find some criteria that are suitable for many fields of research in economics.
Therefore we consulted several research papers and used the recommendations we found in the papers as a basis for analysing and assessing the suitability of data availability policies of economics journals in our study.
We’d like to discuss these criteria with our readers. Feel free to submit comments or send me an e-mail.
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Posted: June 13th, 2012 | Author: Sven | Filed under: Projects, Report | Tags: big data, humanties, social sciences | Comments Off on Big Data in the Humanities and Social Siences? Yes – there’s a bunch of it!
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) issued the first public appraisal of the Digging into Data Challenge, an international grant programme first funded by JISC, the US National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the US National Science Foundation and the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Their findings are presented in a report called One Culture – Computationally Intensive Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, along with a series of recommendations for researchers, administrators, scholarly societies, academic publishers, research libraries, and funding agencies.
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Posted: June 8th, 2012 | Author: Sven | Filed under: Data Sharing | Tags: DataCite, Datasets, DOI Registration, persistent identifiers, Research Data | Comments Off on 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 help the research community address a long-standing challenge to make valuable research data easier to find so they can be leveraged and exploited for other research purposes.
NRC-CISTI has established DataCite Canada to serve as a central research dataset registration service that will enable Canadian data centres to register research datasets and assign digital object identifiers (DOIs) to them. As the name suggests, DataCite Canada is a member of the DataCite Consortium. DataCite is part of the International DOI Foundation (IDF). Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: June 5th, 2012 | Author: Sven | Filed under: Data Policy, EDaWaX | Tags: Data Policies, survey | Comments Off on Second Phase of our Survey just started
The EDaWaX Project today has send a reminder to 350 editors of economic journals to fill out the online questionnaire dealing with data availability policies in scholarly journals. One of the questionnaire was designed for journals without data policies; the second questionnaire was created for journals that already own a data policy.
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Posted: June 4th, 2012 | Author: Sven | Filed under: Conference, EDaWaX | Tags: presentation, results, slides, talk, WP2 | 1 Comment »
On Thursday -24th of may- I presented first findings of our research project in a session on research data at the 101st German Bibliothekartag, managed by Goportis, the Leibniz Library Network for Research Information. Up to 100 colleques heard the presentation and some interesting questions were raised.
For introducing my presentation I gave a short overview on the project’s aims and our three project phases. Also the expected outcome and our project partners were introduced.
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