tDAR - the Digital Archaeological Record - is an international digital archive and repository. It houses data about archaeological investigations, research, resources and scholarship, to provide broad access to a wide range of archaeological data.

A video created by the Digital Curation Centre, UK offers an interesting overview of research data management. It provides insights into the researchers' role in managing their data, and also identifies some tools and resources available on the Digital Curation Centre website.

Watch the DCC video - Managing Research Data.

Thomson Reuters has announced the release of the Data Citation Index. The index will be hosted on the Web of Knowledge platform, and will become available in late 2012.

The Data Hub describes itself as "the easy way to get, use and share data".

The Data Hub is a community driven catalogue of datasets on the Internet. It uses open-source data cataloguing software CKAN, which provides each dataset record with fields for descriptions, formats, ownership, access and subject areas, among others.

Most of the data indexed is open data, which means it is openly licensed, and free to use.

On the site, you can:

CSIRO's Information Management & Technology team has won the 2012 Excellence in eGovernment Awards: Project and Program Management Category. The award was received for their Research Data Service program.

The Awards website, describes the CSIRO Research Data Service (RDS) as follows:

Santiago Ortiz, a freelance designer in data visualisation, has created a new project titled the 'Data Visualization References Network'.

The project provides a visualised network of practioners in data visualisation for front end users to connect to. On the site, Ortiz explains that the aim of the tool is to enable the discovery of amazing and useful contents from the Infovis field.

The tool provides two views: a networked view of all resources, and a reduced view when 3 or more 'nodes' are selected.

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) will soon be launching a data discovery portal for ecosystem scientists to share their knowledge and data. TERN is a collaborative venture of Australian science facilities which aims to integrate and share their information and k

With the current global emphasis on sharing research data with the public, you might wonder - what can the public actually do with data? How can they access it, understand it, or apply it? Why might it be of interest to them, or you?

Data journalism, simply put, is journalism using data - journalism about data, and journalism that draws on data. Data can assist to tell a complex story with infographics that illustrate and interpret the wealth of digital data now available.