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.