Updates in Data
Updates, opinions and announcements from research, publishing and data communities
International Digital Curation Conference 2019 Melbourne, Australia
The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) was held in Melbourne Australia from February 6th-8th, 2019. The intended audience of the conference is anyone who is interested in curating digital materials for posterity. Personally, I had never heard of the conference but was found it intriguing as I am a PhD candidate working with historical Hawaiian language text documents.
Looking to the Future of Data Sharing
An increase in data is leading to the creation of a data generalist role and a need for better data sharing. A report of the 5th Better Science Through Better Data conference.
What is the role of journals and publishers in promoting reproducibility?
This article was my winning entry to the Better Science Through Better Data - Early Career Researcher writing competition 2018.
A new approach to supporting data sharing in breast cancer research
A partnership between Springer Nature and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) is enabling researchers to make their research data more accessible.
Enabling FAIR Data in the Earth sciences
Last week I was proud to announce the endorsement of the “Enabling FAIR Data in the Earth, space and environment sciences” initiative by Nature and Scientific Data as convened by the American Geophysical Union in partnership with the Research Data Alliance and Earth Science Information Partners.
Thoughts after two years on the São Paulo's School of Research Data Science
In this blog I discuss the benefits/truth of joining the CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science. Taking part of the school both as a student and a helper allowed me to see how the school helped me and what it did for others.
The Impact on Authors and Editors of Introducing Data Availability Statements at Nature Journals
Data availability statements (DASs) offer information within a journal article on where the data supporting the results of that article can be found and whether and how those can be accessed.
Helping institutions understand how researchers are sharing their data
To help institutions and libraries understand if and how researchers are sharing data associated with their publications we’ve introduced a new service, Data availability reporting.
Springer Nature launches Open data badges
Springer Nature has launched a pilot program in which digital Open data badges are being awarded to articles to incentivize and reward open data sharing practices amongst our authors.