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Data sharing

Who's bearing the costs of sharing?

ukda1.jpgData management and data sharing, while necessary and desirable, are not cost-free. But how are such costs to be estimated?

Does Open Science work?

openscience.jpg Does open science make a difference? How do working methods change? What are the barriers to openness?

They do it well

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Curating the social web

Think about when disaster strikes. An earthquake. A tsunami. News and information online generally appear very quickly in a variety of ways - through Facebook, blogs, tweets, YouTube, news feeds and web sites. The result? Atomisation.

Sip some NecTAR

smnectar.jpgThe Federal Government has funded a number of initiatives aimed at boosting Australian research infrastructure. The $50m Research Data Storage Infrastructure project is one, and the $47m National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources (NecTAR) project is another.

License to thrill

dcc.jpg The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) is investigating data licensing by universities. But what does licensing involve?

How effective are data centres for data sharing?

datacentres.jpg According to a recent report, Data centres: their use, value and impact,

Welcome to the Dataverse

dataverse.jpg The Dataverse Network Project has launched as an easy means of sharing research data.

How open is open - for Open Data?

okfn.jpg We will be hearing more and more about data licensing as the drive to share data gathers force. If you are interested in sharing your data openly, there are existing licenses available to you. The Open Knowledge Foundation has produced a Guide to Open Data Licensing to help navigate this maze.

Let ANDS open doors for you

ands.jpgThe latest version of Share, the ANDS newsletter, is online. On page 6, Adrian Burton talks about connecting datasets to publications via a DOI.