Author Archives: dgm

Over the past few months there’s been a growing interest in archiving software projects, such as can be done via Zenodo. This is part of more general problem – as researchers increasing use environments such as iPython notebooks for their … Continue reading →

The documentation page, covering both technical and user documentation for the ANU Data Commons has been updated. Documentation covers The Data Commons itself The ANU Data uploader The Metadata stores project Our prototype ORCID updater Links to project source code … Continue reading →

 Webinar report: The Online Revolution – Education for Everyone Andrew Ng Coursera/Stanford One of the advantages of the online revolution is that it makes it comparatively easy to follow presentations elsewhere, in this case an ACM presentation on the development of … Continue reading →

Yesterday, ANDS hosted a webinar by Max Wilkinson, head of research data services at UCL – clicking on the link will take you to a pdf of my notes. I have my own views on what a research data service … Continue reading →

As part of our work to develop a solution to better manage metadata about researchers, publications and data, we set off down the road of trying to link publications to datasets, and by extension grey literature, deposited in various online … Continue reading →

Following on from the recent ANDS webinar on the  ARC changes vis à vis research data management ANDS hosted an online discussion of the changes with Douglas Robertson (ANU), Joe Thubron (Intersect), Justin Withers (ARC) and Greg Laughlin (ANDS). The meeting was … Continue reading →

The ARC has recently announced a requirement for future grant applications to include a statement as regards research data management. ANDS recently organised a webinar with ARC participation on the changes. My notes of the webinar are online as a … Continue reading →

Shortdoi.org is a service to shorten these long full canonical DOI strings to something more memorable, and easy to type. It’s effectively a link shortener like bit.ly, but for digital object identifiers Looking at the system it would be trivial … Continue reading →

As I’ve written before we chose to use BibTeX as our lowest common denominator citation export format. Despite our focus on datasets the adoption of BibTeX came out of our researcher identification work and we were not really thinking very … Continue reading →

Pete Sefton, over at UWS, recently published an interesting post on their use of the bagit specification in their data capture applications. The Data Commons also uses bagit in its ingest mechanism, but for slightly different reasons. The genesis of … Continue reading →