Protecting the Security of Research Data

http://www.educause.edu/Resources/ProtectingtheSecurityofResearc/241119

From Educause.
Abstract: The effective protection and management of research data has become a hot topic in U.S. higher education. Funding agencies increasingly require data management plans as part of grant submittals, and research offices are being asked to certify the security of research data generated by grant activity. Heretofore, the context for data management and information security activities and initiatives in higher education largely focused on the “enterprise” (administrative) data of the institution, not those data generated by research activities. IT professionals need to be aware that many academic research endeavors include the collection, analysis, and/or storage of sensitive data, the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of which must be asserted and demonstrated. In many cases, the security of sensitive information gathered in the conduct of research is required by law. This research bulletin discusses an over-arching approach by which campus IT solutions can be architected and deployed in such a way as to provide adequate management of research data assets without hindering the research process.

Reducing data complications while capturing data complexity

http://databits.lternet.edu/spring-2011/reducing-data-complications-while-capturing-data-complexity

From LTER. Gail Steinhart tweeted this initially! Introduces the idea of a data explicator...

E-Science Librarianship: Field Undefined

Article by Elsa Alvaro, Heather Brooks, Monica Ham, Stephanie Poegel, and Sara Rosencrans. 2011.

http://www.istl.org/11-summer/article1.html 

Scientific Data Management - How the EU is Responding to the Challenge

http://blogs.wiley.com/publishingnews/2010/12/22/scientific-data-management-how-the-european-union-is-responding-to-the-challenge/

Report on how the EU will ride the wave of data...

Science - CC Wiki

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Science

Formerly Science Commons. Key projects [from the wiki]:

• Making scientific research “re-useful” — Via the Scholar's Copyright Project, we develop and promote policy and tools to help people and organizations open and mark their published research as Open Access or Open Data.
• Enabling “one-click” access to research tools — Via the Materials Transfer Project, we offer a suite of standardized contracts to bring the efficiencies and economies of scale from e-commerce to the world of scientific tools, so researchers can easily replicate, verify, and extend research.
• Integrating fragmented information sources — Via the Neurocommons project, we help researchers find, analyze, and use data from disparate sources through our R&D around marking and integrating the information with a common, computer-readable language.

Office of Research Integrity - Data Management Resources

From the US Department of Health and Human Services - http://ori.hhs.gov/education/products/rcr_data.shtml

DOI Guide

A guide to DOIs! Be sure to check out the rest of the ANDS website.
http://ands.org.au/guides/doi.html

Crowdsourcing for Human Subjects Research

While working on a Zooniverse proposal, we came across this issue of human subjects... Do we need to go through the IRB? Do these people need to sign consent forms? What are the ethical ramifications?

There is an article here on the topic, written by Lauren A. Schmidt: http://www.crowdsourcing.org/document/crowdsourcing-for-human-subjects-research/3002. 

Introduction to Curation

Cited earlier, this is an Introduction to scientific data curation by the DCC.

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/briefing-papers/introduction-curation

Open Access Literature Review 2008–9: A Serials Perspective

By Maria Collins. Great article that brings up some good points on Open Access, as well as some insight into self-archiving practices by scientists and their awareness institutional repositories (mostly the lack of awareness...).

I find it odd that an article on open access is not openly accessible itself....

Collins, M. (2011). Open Access Literature Review 2008-9: A Serials Perspective. Library Resources & Technical Services, 55(3), 138-47. Retrieved from Library Lit & Inf Full Text database 

The Unsung Story of Tape Storage

From the article: Data storage expert Henry Newman talks about the hard reality of tape storage: it wears out. Yet Newman opines that tape is still the best data storage medium.

 http://www.datamation.com/storage/the-unsung-story-of-tape-storage.html

Appraisal and Selection (Intro to Curation)

From DCC. Appraisal and selection of scientific data for re-use.

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/briefing-papers/introduction-curation/appraisal-and-selection

DataONEpedia

DataONE is a group of badasses who wants to help manage the entire data life cycle. As part of this, they offer two great resources: a database on best practices, and a database on software.

Both are available through the DataONE website: https://www.dataone.org/dataonepedia

The main website is here: https://www.dataone.org/

Research Data Lifecycle Management Workshop - related post

Blog post from an attendee of rdlmw. This discusses vendor and corporate relationships with data management. The discussion was insightful, so I hope this blog post gives everyone something to think about!

http://blog.orenblog.org/2011/07/20/panel-discussion-%E2%80%93-vendor-and-corporate-relationships-rdlmw/

Research Data Lifecycle Management Workshop

Hosted by Princeton University, July 19-20, 2011. All about Research Data Lifecycle Management! Very, very interesting. Slides from the first four talks are online, as well as many position papers.

http://rcs.columbia.edu/rdlm

Tweets: #rdlmw

JHU Data Management Services

http://dmp.data.jhu.edu/

Johns Hopkins University is offering data management services, and gives some nice details on effective data management and information a tiny blurb on legal and ethical issues.

Comparison of Required/Preferred Job Skills

One of my small tasks at my UVa internship has been to update a list of e-science jobs, and include where the job is located, the title, and the requirements. From this bigger file, I've compiled a smaller file that lists the institution and the job requirements.
The main thrust of the document is to show what requirements consistently come up for e-science jobs. I will try to keep this updated as e-science related jobs are posted. I have also left it open to editing, so if anyone comes across any other job postings, please add them!

e-science job requirements

DAMA - Guide to the Data Management Body of Knowledge

Found by Susan! Also offers certification programs, such as the Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP), but may or may not be a relevant certificate. Some of the topics covered may not explicitly apply to e-science, but lots of good info.

Also available through Books24x7 through Syracuse.

Main website: http://www.dama.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3552
Link in the SU Catalog: http://summit.syr.edu.libezproxy2.syr.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?db=local&bbid=3286256

Data Sharing by Scientists: Practices and Perceptions

This link was tweeted by one of my supervisors: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0021101. It's published in PLoS ONE - one of my favorite journals! 

Here's a brief bit from the background:
Scientific research in the 21st century is more data intensive and collaborative than in the past. It is important to study the data practices of researchers – data accessibility, discovery, re-use, preservation and, particularly, data sharing. Data sharing is a valuable part of the scientific method allowing for verification of results and extending research from prior results.

Wake up call for academic libraries

A presentation retweeted by one of my superviors: http://digitaalduurzaam.blogspot.com/2011/06/more-digital-wake-up-calls-for-academic.html?spref=tw.

There is also a paper that this presentation is based off of (written in 2008... and people still haven't heard of this??), called "A New Value Equation Challenge: The Emergence of eResearch and Roles for Research Libraries." This article was used to help justify the new Scientific Data Consultant positions here at UVa.