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A data set (or dataset) is a collection of data, usually presented in tabular form. Each column represents a particular variable. Each row corresponds to a given member of the data set in question. Its values for each of the variables, such as height and weight of an object or values of random numbers. Each value is known as a datum. The data set may comprise data for one or more members, corresponding to the number of rows. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Data set)
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Repository Fringe 2010 |
Martin Donnelly (and friends) report on the Repository Fringe "unconference" held at the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland, over 2-3 September 2010. |
October 2010, issue65, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 64: Supporting the Power of Research Data |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 64. |
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Retooling Libraries for the Data Challenge |
Dorothea Salo examines how library systems and procedures need to change to accommodate research data. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
Data Services for the Sciences: A Needs Assessment |
Brian Westra describes a data services needs assessment for science research staff at the University of Oregon. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
Blue Ribbon Task Force Symposium on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access |
Marieke Guy reports on a symposium which provided an opportunity for stakeholders to respond to the recent Blue Ribbon Task Force report on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
Making Datasets Visible and Accessible: DataCite's First Summer Meeting |
Tom J Pollard and J Max Wilkinson report on DataCite's First Summer Meeting, a two-day event focused on making datasets visible and accessible, held in Hannover, Germany, in June 2010. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
E-books and E-content 2010: Data As Content |
Brian Whalley reports on a meeting dealing with academic data management and some JISC projects concerned with institutional responses to the need to manage research data more effectively. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
The Fourth DCC-RIN Research Data Management Forum |
Martin Donnelly and Graham Pryor report on the fourth Research Data Management Forum event, on the theme "Dealing with Sensitive Data: Managing Ethics, Security and Trust," organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and Research Information Network (RIN) in Manchester, England, over 10 - 11 March, 2010. |
April 2010, issue63, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2010, issue63, news and events |
Book Review: Information Science in Transition |
Michael Day reviews an edited volume published to commemorate the founding of the Institute of Information Scientists in 1958. |
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A Research Revolution: The Impact of Digital Technologies |
Dicky Maidment-Otlet and Judy Redfearn describe a new JISC activity to highlight how digital technologies are changing research. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context |
Dave Puplett reports on the conference Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context held at the British Library in January 2010. The conference launched Economists Online (EO), an innovative economics subject repository. |
January 2010, issue62, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2010, issue62, news and events |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 61: The Double-edged Web |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 61. |
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How to Publish Data Using Overlay Journals: The OJIMS Project |
Sarah Callaghan, Sam Pepler, Fiona Hewer, Paul Hardaker and Alan Gadian describe the implementation details that can be used to create overlay journals for data publishing in the meteorological sciences. |
October 2009, issue61, feature article |
Enhancing Scientific Communication through Aggregated Publications |
Arjan Hogenaar describes changes in the publication and communication process which will mean that the role of authors will become a more prominent one. |
October 2009, issue61, feature article |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2009, issue61, news and events |
Research Data Preservation and Access: The Views of Researchers |
Neil Beagrie, Robert Beagrie and Ian Rowlands present findings from a UKRDS survey of researchers' views on and practices for preservation and dissemination of research data in four UK universities. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
Overlay Journals and Data Publishing in the Meteorological Sciences |
Sarah Callaghan, Fiona Hewer, Sam Pepler, Paul Hardaker and Alan Gadian introduce the OJIMS Project and discuss the impact of overlay and data journals in the meteorological sciences. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
The Historic Hospitals Admission Records Project |
Sue Hawkins and Andrea Tanner describe a ground-breaking Web site using children's hospital admission registers. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
E-Curator: A 3D Web-based Archive for Conservators and Curators |
Mona Hess, Graeme Were, Ian Brown, Sally MacDonald, Stuart Robson and Francesca Simon Millar describe a project which combines 3D colour laser scanning and e-Science technologies for capturing and sharing very large 3D scans and datasets about museum artefacts in a secure computing environment. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources |
Jane Stevenson gives a personal view of the recent UK conference organised by the International Society of Knowledge Organization. |
July 2009, issue60, event report |
Book Review: Digital Consumers - Reshaping the Information Professions |
Muhammad Rafiq offers us a detailed review of a work which examines digital consumers from both an historical and future perspective. |
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To VRE Or Not to VRE?: Do South African Malaria Researchers Need a Virtual Research Environment? |
Heila Pienaar and Martie van Deventer identify the requirements of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for malaria researchers in South Africa. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
Spinning a Semantic Web for Metadata: Developments in the IEMSR |
Emma Tonkin and Alexey Strelnikov reflect on the experience of developing components for the Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
Three Perspectives on the Evolving Infrastructure of Institutional Research Repositories in Europe |
Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen, Gera Pronk and Maurits van der Graaf report on the most significant results from two surveys conducted to provide an overview of repositories with research output in the European Union. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
IMPACT Conference: Optical Character Recognition in Mass Digitisation |
Lieke Ploeger, Yola Park, Jeanna Nikolov-Ramirez Gaviria, Clemens Neudecker, Fedor Bochow and Michael Day report from the first IMPACT Conference, held in The Hague, Netherlands on 6-7 April, 2009. |
April 2009, issue59, event report |
Supporting eResearch: The Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative |
Ann Borda reports on the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (VeRSI). |
January 2009, issue58, feature article |
Time to Change Our Thinking: Dismantling the Silo Model of Digital Scholarship |
Stephen G. Nichols argues that humanists need to replace the silo model of digital scholarship with collaborative ventures based on interoperability and critical comparison of content. |
January 2009, issue58, feature article |
Data Preservation and Long-term Analysis in High-Energy Physics |
Richard Mount reports on the First Workshop on Data Preservation and Long-Term Analysis in High-Energy Physics, held at DESY (Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron), Hamburg, Germany, on 26-28 January 2008. |
January 2009, issue58, event report |
Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) Fall Meeting |
Paul Walk reports on the Sun-PASIG winter meeting held in Baltimore, USA on 18-20 November 2008. |
January 2009, issue58, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2008, issue57, news and events |
The Networked Library Service Layer: Sharing Data for More Effective Management and Cooperation |
Janifer Gatenby identifies criteria for determining which data in various library systems could be more beneficially shared and managed at a network level. |
July 2008, issue56, feature article |
The 2008 Mashed Museum Day and UK Museums on the Web Conference |
Mia Ridge reports on the Mashed Museum day and the Museums Computer Group UK Museums on the Web Conference, held at the University of Leicester in June 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
A DRY CRIG Event for the IE Demonstrator |
Paul Walk reports on an 'unconference' for developers working in and around the JISC Information Environment and institutional systems, hosted by UKOLN at the University of Bath in June 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
Open Repositories 2008 |
Mahendra Mahey reports on the third international Open Repositories 2008 Conference, held at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton in April 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
Book Review: Visualizing Data |
Pete Cliff considers a new book on data visualisation and hopes one day to implement some of the interesting ideas presented in this work. |
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Research Libraries and the Power of the Co-operative |
John MacColl considers the 'co-operative imperative' upon research libraries, and describes the work which the former Research Libraries Group is undertaking as part of OCLC. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
Digital Lives: Report of Interviews With the Creators of Personal Digital Collections |
Pete Williams, Ian Rowlands, Katrina Dean and Jeremy Leighton John describe initial findings of the AHRC-funded Digital Lives Research Project studying personal digital collections and their relationship with research repositories such as the British Library. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
VIF: Version Identification Workshop |
Sarah Molloy reports on a half-day workshop on the use of the Version Identification Framework, held in Hatton Garden, London on 22 April 2008. |
April 2008, issue55, event report |