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Add it up – Monash University
I looked into the Digital Curation Center (DCC), located in the UK, where I found an article and a bevy of useful resourcesfor future study, exploration, and use in the realm of digital data curation. The DCC, through a case study, examined how Monash University, a large research university in Australia, improved research data management (RDM) practices, covering seven areas:…
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Plan S
The European Commission’s senior advisor on Open Access, Robert-Jan Smits, in conjunction with two European research leaders and the publisher of Plan S, have formed a task force to achieve the goal of moving the European Union toward the requirement of immediate Open Access for scientific papers after publication, by the year 2020. The group…
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On Privacy
There is information we know we’re sharing about ourselves; there is information being generated about us that we do not create; and information about us is generated—unbeknown to us—simply because of our connections to other people online. – Ganesh and Hankey in From Information Activism to the Politics of Data In my quest to learn more about…
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Success
A friend sent me this yesterday. I could not agree more. The more I live outside my native culture, the more I can see it for what it really is.
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How soon is now?
When you say it’s gonna happen “now” well, when exactly do you mean? See I’ve already waited too long, and all my hope is gone. When I began a draft of this blog post, it was going to be about the five trends found in the IFLA Trend Report, which I thought would be interesting…
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Truth
“As soon as you hear anyone saying they’re making a perfect map of the world, alarm bells should ring because they’re trying to sell, metaphorically, a certain ideological vision, a certain kind of product. They’re trying to push something, be it religious, political, ideological, commercial, whatever it might be.” – Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance…
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Breakdown: Go ahead and give it to me
A response to How to Make Art That Withstands the Test of Time by Alexandra Ossola in Facts So Romantic, on Nautilus. It was a dark and stormy night, and all of the sculptures deteriorated. The basic premise of Ossola’s article is ensuring the longevity of artwork when made with either experimental or traditional materials, if that…
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It’s happening now
I love anything that brings young people into the museum, and I especially enjoy the cross-pollination that happens between musicians and museums, which appears to be happening a lot these days. Klaus Biesenbach’s collaboration with Lana del Rey and Patty Smith, for example. For me, the epicenter of activism and movement forward is happening in museums.…
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Dear Data, I love you now
In one of my explorations into the wonderful world of the Internet I wrote the words “Giorgia Lupi” down on a slip of paper, the origins of which I have since forgotten, and put it in a stack with a bunch of other slips of paper. A couple of weeks later I came across the…
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