earthcube (2)

You can join the EarthCube community here:

http://earthcube.ning.com/

Typical statement:
The goal of EarthCube is to transform the conduct of research in geosciences by supporting the development of community-guided cyberinfrastructure to integrate data and information for knowledge management across the Geosciences.


There is also a link for a questionnaire about science/data requirements gathering. I don't know exactly what that means but I'm going to find out.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GeoSciRequirements

data publishing ditty

A short article about data publishing and technology.

http://blogs.wiley.com/publishingnews/2011/06/28/it%E2%80%99s-what-counts-how-data-transforms-our-world/

Mentions DataCite, Mendeley, and Scribd.

Data management plans are becoming increasingly integral to project funding proposals – and will continue to become more stringent. However, both services (e.g., global standards, long-term curation) and incentives (such as academic credit, enforceable policies, and funder metrics) need to be overhauled in order to provide people with the resources and operability they need.


The current mismatch was illustrated by Todd Vision (DRYAD). Quoting a recent PARSE survey, he noted that there is a major discrepancy between researchers’ apparent willingness to share data (85%) and current levels of actual compliance with requests or funding mandates (27%).