Data Management Day

When: Thursday, April 12 from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Where: Curry Library Innovation Commons (the CLIC),Curry School of Education, 3rd Floor, Ruffner Hall

The University of  Virginia Library’s Scientific Data Consulting Group is pleased to offer Data Management Day as a means to discuss research data issues and institutional initiatives aimed at addressing them. We hope that the day’s events increase awareness of data management issues and serve as a forum to discuss solutions and best practices for data management across the entire research life cycle. We have carefully developed an agenda that will appeal to researchers, graduate students, librarians and support personnel.

In order to foster broader information sharing and collaboration with our peer institutions, we have invited librarians and support providers from other Virginia institutions to attend in person, or participate via a video teleconferencing broadcast across the 4VA network. .

As speakers confirm their availability, we will continue to update the schedule. If you would like more information, please contact Sherry Lake at shlake@virginia.edu.

Keynote Speaker: Alberto Conti
Innovation Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute (http://cv.albertoconti.com/)

See http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/data/DM_Day.html for full schedule of events.

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Data Rights and Responsibilities

Wednesday, March 28
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Brown Library Electronic Classroom (Room 133), Clark Hall
University of Virginia

Madelyn Wessel
Associate General Counsel

David Hudson
Associate Vice Provost for Research

Madelyn Wessel, Associate General Counsel, and David Hudson, Associate Vice Provost for Research, will discuss what you need to know about ownership of your research data. This talk will explore information from the Data Rights and Responsibilities document from the Brown Library website. Refreshments will be served.

This event is co-sponsored by the Scientific Data Consulting Group and Scholars’ Lab.

Please RSVP on our Facebook event page.

Open Data Handbook

This handbook discusses the legal, social and technical aspects of open data. It can be used by anyone but is especially designed for those seeking to open up data. It discusses the why, what and how of open data – why to go open, what open is, and the how to ‘open’ data.

Read The Open Data Handbook here.

Visual Data in Scientific Publishing

Kirsten Miles
Research Computing Support Specialist
Monday, April 12, 2010, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
In the Brown Science and Engineering Library Electronic Classroom

This session will cover an assortment of issues relating to the use of images as data in scientific publishing.  Particular attention will be given to ethical concerns arising within certain fields, and how to ensure that processes are adequately tracked and managed.

You can register for this course by submitting a help ticket at http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/help/index.html

This event is part of the Spring 2010 Research Computing Lab Short Course Series.

Introduction to IDL Workshop

Kirsten Miles
Research Computing Support Specialist
Tuesday, March 16, 2010, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
In the Brown Science and Engineering Library Electronic Classroom

This class is a hands on introduction for those who are new to the IDL environment.

You can register for this course by submitting a help ticket at http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/help/index.html

This event is part of the Spring 2010 Research Computing Lab Short Course Series.

GIS Workshop

Digitizing/Editing Data

Participants will learn how to create and/or edit spatial data layers from georeferenced images and other sources in ArcGIS.
Thursday, March 18 at 2:00 p.m.
in the Alderman Library Electronic Classroom.

For more information contact the Scholars’ Lab at (434) 243-8800 or Send a Message.

Image released under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user spdorsey.

Welcome to 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. Although the initial launch of Data.gov provides a limited portion of the rich variety of Federal datasets presently available, we invite you to actively participate in shaping the future of Data.gov by suggesting additional datasets and site enhancements to provide seamless access and use of your Federal data.  Data.gov includes searchable data catalogs providing access to data in three ways: through the “raw” data catalog, the tool catalog and the geodata catalog.

Note that not all included datasets relate to science and engineering but many do.

Research Computing Lab Short Course: Research Data Lifecycle

“Managing the Research Data Lifecycle”

Sherry Lake

Research Computing Support Specialist

Thursday, February 11, 2010, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

In the Brown Science and Engineering Library Electronic Classroom 

This session will offer an overview of what to “think” about in regards to managing data throughout a scientific research project. It will cover collection, storage, metadata, analysis, rights, access, and other relevant phases.

Anyone interested in attending a session is asked to sign-up by submitting a ticket at the following url:   http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/help/index.html.

Report on Big Data

The following is reposted from The Scout Report for January 15, 2010.  From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout 1994-2010.  http://scout.wisc.edu/

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The Promise and Peril of Big Data

( http://www.aspeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/content/docs/pubs/InfoTech09.pdf ) 

Some data-crunchers and others are thrilled by the prospect of the growing amount of “big data”.  According to a recent report, the amount of digital content available on the Internet is approaching five hundred billion gigabytes.  This 66-page report from the Aspen Institute asks some key questions about these developments, including “Does Big Data represent an evolution of knowledge, or is more actually less when it comes to information on such scales?”   Released in January 2010, this report is based on insights from the recent Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program, which brought together 25 leaders from the fields of technology, economics, and public policy.  The report was written by David Bollier, and it includes sections like “Big Data and Health Care”, “How Should Big Data Abuses Be Addressed?” and “Business and Social Implications of Big Data”.

It’s an important read, and one that visitors with an interest in any of these fields will want to pass along to their friends. [KMG]

Qualitative Data Talk

This Thursday, November 5th at 2:00 p.m., the Scholars’ Lab’s Dr. Nancy Kechner will guide participants through the basic principles of qualitative–or non-numeric–data acquisition and analysis using the popular N’Vivo application.  For more information on qualitative research, please visit the QSR (makers of N’Vivo) website: http://www.qsrinternational.com/what-is-qualitative-research.aspx

Qualitative Analysis Using N’Vivo

Thursday, November 5 at 2:00 p.m.

in the Scholars’ Lab Classroom (Alderman Library 423).

 All talks in the Scholars’ Lab are free and open to the public.  For a full listing of events in the Scholars’ Lab this semester, please visit http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/about/events.html