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Archive for December, 2009

Winter 2009 management board meeting

Posted in Meetings, tagged , , on 2009/12/19 | Leave a Comment »

Gate at the British Library (source: gaspa) The Dryad Management Board recently held their Winter 2009 meeting at the British Library Conference Center in London. The meeting was attended by 13 journal representatives and 4 members of the Dryad development team. A few highlights from the meeting: Dryad now includes 489 data files in 163 [...]

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From the International Digital Curation Conference

Posted in Meetings, tagged on 2009/12/08 | Leave a Comment »

Dryad was at the 5th International Digital Curation Conference in London last week,  getting several prominent mentions by speakers, and with a poster on our research supporting the curation workflow, available here. A pre-conference workshop on Citability of Research Data provided an introduction to DataCite,  a cooperative effort of the German National Library of Science [...]

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American Geophysical Union position statement on data

Posted in Data sharing, tagged on 2009/12/08 | Leave a Comment »

“Because the state of natural systems is never repeated, data losses, or missed data collection opportunities can never be corrected.”  So says the AGU, recently reaffirming the importance of data availability and preservation. The statement offers strong support for data archiving and publication as a routine part of the research process. The cost of collecting, [...]

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