Galileo's repository

Just had a mad conversation with a friend about this project. What if Galileo had actually "owned" his discovery that the earth orbited the sun and not the other way round, along with the vast amount of scientific data he accumulated during his lifetime. Or if, throughout history, scientists had been able to draw upon and use each others data? In Galileo's case, the poor guy spent the last years of his life under house arrest. What would the implications be if someone else came up with something considered "hare-brained" or even wicked or evil in this day and age? Would anyone WANT to own that data? and if it did become valuable in the future, how would this data be protected. This is just a bit of a brainstorm and a rant I do'n't want to lose this train of thought... :)

Creative commons

Creative commons website offers a great deal of information about sharing and utilising resources legally. The organisation itself has help initiate other projects, notably the links to academic and scientific creative commons websites. These contain more discussion, white papers, etc about how data could be shared and how collaborative projects could be conducted within that setting. This is reflective of how the overall recognition of the potential to share and utilise resources is growing rapidly overseas. This is in line with New Zealand's own digital strategy, however at this stage, I appear to be finding a great deal more information about what is taking place overseas rather than in New Zealand at this stage.

INFO528 module 4 (already!)

The module four presentation was mostly concerned with issues of ethics and theory in the research project. It is a module which is likely to be particularly pertinent to the field in which I will be researching. I believe one of the main issues of data curation and sharing itself will be regarding anonymity, security, use of resources, permissions, in how the data is likely to be shared.

An article discussing the emergence of data curation

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/150.pdf

This is a pdf from the University of Bath in the UK discussing the fact that huge amounts of data are now being generated due to new technologies and there will be a growing need for this data to be managed. The article talks about the data curation cycle, the level 1 diagram is contained within it. Also the establishment of the data curation centre in the UK, future expectations for it to become a leading organisation of expertise concerning this topic.

"from data deluge to data curation" Philip Lord, Alison Macdonald, Liz Lyon, David Giaretta

notes from the field

a response to the possibility of using an open source wiki to manage raw data

http://groups.google.co.nz/group/openaccessnews/browse_thread/thread/d52c6fc8affdf2ab/26983647c20cb639?lnk=st&q=data+curation#26983647c20cb639

Data curation centre lifecycle

Link to the DCC Lifecycle pdf,
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/docs/publications/DCCLifecycle.pdf

a detailed diagram analysing the many aspects of data life cycles

INFO 528 has commenced...

We have had 3 lectures so far, most have been concerned with the ideas of research methods, particularly going over the processes of commencing a literature review. Assignment one is due on the 23rd of August. I have started reading through what I've been able to find so far, which has mainly been on data curation methods. I will have to read through more of the literature upon data curation methods, but feel I should try to concentrate the bulk of my reading upon current data curation practice and methods researchers overseas use. I have emailed the biodiversity co-ordinator at work and hope to discuss some of their findings as well.