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Recommendations on the Dissemination and Stewardship of Data from Federally Funded Research
January 12, 2012
Today is the deadline for responses to the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Request for Information (RFI) about long-term stewardship of, and broad public access to, digital data resulting from federally funded research. The Alexandria Archive Institute’s responses included the following five primary recommendations for encouraging public access to and preservation of digital data resulting from federally-funded research:
- Cultivate a distributed information ecosystem
- Cultivate a robust preservation infrastructure
- Encourage data professionalism
- Require non-proprietary data
- Address data ethics
Visit the blog post in Heritage Bytes for details on these recommendations and our responses to the specific questions posed in the RFI. You can also download the PDF version of the AAI’s response: AAI-Comments-FR2011-28621
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Tags: open data, policy, recommendations
Archaeology 2.0 Book Hits the Shelves
December 2, 2011
The print version of Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration was released this week by the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. View the abstract and list of contributors. Archaeology 2.0 is the first book in the Cotsen Institute’s new Digital Archaeology Series. The book can be purchased from the David Brown Book Company. An electronic version of the book is also available at the University of California’s eScholarship repository.
Tags: archaeology 2.0, book, publication
White House Seeks Input on Public Access to Federally-Funded Research Results
November 6, 2011
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy last week released two Requests for Information (RFI) that offer a great opportunity to weigh in on critical questions around access to the results of publicly-funded research. Read on and follow the links to contribute your two cents.
1. Public Access to Digital Data Resulting from Federally Funded Scientific Research. This RFI seeks “recommendations on approaches for ensuring long-term stewardship and encouraging broad public access to unclassified digital data that result from federally funded scientific research.” Public input will inform the National Science and Technology Council’s Interagency Working Group on Digital Data, which in 2009 issued a report Harnessing the Power of Digital Data (available here) that recommended agencies lay the foundations for digital scientific data policy and make their policies publicly available. (more…)
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Celebrating Open Access Week
October 25, 2011
October 24-30 is the fifth annual Open Access Week. Open Access Week is a time to highlight and celebrate advances in scholarly openness. Open Access expands the reach of scholarship and increases opportunities for collaboration, both enriching and speeding up the research process.
Open Access to scholarly products has been the driving force behind the AAI since its inception. We are delighted to be celebrating Open Access week this year with a lecture given by Eric Kansa at the University of Arizona Libraries. Eric is one of three invited speakers addressing The Future of Data: Open Access and Reproducibility on October 25. (more…)
Tags: lecture, open access, open data, outreach
Open Context and CDL “Data Journals”
September 20, 2011
We’ve been working to develop a model of “data sharing as publication” in our work with Open Context. In our view, publication helps communicate some of the need for quality and standards alignment that makes effective data dissemination something more formal than implied by the term “sharing.”
We’re definitely not alone in this assessment, and other groups are also experimenting with various models of data publication. One group is the California Digital Library (CDL), a unit that runs many of the University of California’s leading scholarly communications and data preservation efforts. (more…)
Tags: data journals, data publishing, data sharing, digital libraries, Scholarly Communications