DOE Data Explorer

http://www.osti.gov/dataexplorer/
The publicly available data collections support DOE research results that are well documented in journal articles, conference literature, and technical reports. Key DOE databases of R&D information are searchable through the Science Accelerator. The DOE Data Explorer will include enhanced search capabilities across specialized Web sites as it continues to grow.

Research Data Management Workshop – Friday 13th June 2008

http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/Workshops.xml
Presentations

Welcome and introduction – Paul Jeffreys, Director of IT at the University of Oxford (MP3 5.2MB)
Scoping Digital Repository Services for Research Data Management project- Luis Martinez Uribe, Oxford e-Research [...]

Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries

http://metascholar.org/publications/StrategiesforSustainingDigitalLibraries.pdf
The articles of this monograph provide resources for digital library stakeholders who seek to better understand how to effectively evolve such efforts from short-term projects to long-term sustainable programs. The monograph includes contributions from leaders in major digital libraries that have made such transitions or which are systematically considering the question [...]

Principles for Release of Scientific Research, US Office of Science and Technology Policy [PDF] (June 20, ‘08)

http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/ostp-scientific-research-28may08.pdf
calling for open data

To Share or not to Share

http://www.rin.ac.uk/files/Data%20publication%20report,%20main%20-%20final.pdf
Publication and Quality Assurance of Research Data Outputs
Report commissioned by the Research Information Network (RIN) June 2008
The digital age has presented the research community with new opportunities. Research findings in digital
form can be easily moved around, duplicated, handed to others, worked on with new tools, merged with
other data, divided up in new ways, stored in [...]

Scaling Up: Towards a Federation of Crystallography Data Repositories

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/reports/Ebank3report.pdf
Liz Lyon, Simon Coles, Monica Duke, Traugott Koch
The Scaling Up Report presents the results of a JISC-funded scoping study to assess the
feasibility of a federated model for data repositories in the domain of crystallography. It builds on
earlier work in the eBank UK Project and has been based on a mix of desk-based research, a
consultation workshop [...]

Keeping research data safe

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/keepingresearchdatasafe0408.pdf
Executive summary
The rising tide of digital research data raises issues relating to access, curation and preservation for HEIs and within the UK a growing number of research funders are now implementing policies requiring researchers to submit data management, preservation or data sharing plans with their funding applications. This study provides: Research [...]

Science 2.0 — Is Open Access Science the Future?

Is posting raw results online, for all to see, a great tool or a great risk?
By M. Mitchell Waldrop

SHARING MEDICAL DATA — THE LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/legal-watch/sharing-medical-data/
As technology advances, and with it capability in the areas of sharing and using data to its full effect, the privacy issues inherent in personal data become more and more apparent. Nowhere is this more acute than with medical data.

DPE releases PLATTER, a Planning Tool for Trusted Electronic Repositories

http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/publications/reports/Repository_Planning_Checklist_and_Guidance.pdf
igital Preservation Europe announces the release of PLATTER: a Planning Tool for Trusted Electronic Repositories. Digital repositories are entrusted by their stakeholders – depositors, funders and end-users – with the curation of vital and often irreplaceable electronic assets. Repositories typically validate that trust by subjecting themselves to audit and certification. But how should a new [...]