Anyone teaching or developing data management training might be interested in Frameworks for a Data Management Curriculum, a modular case-based approach for data management instruction. The framework was developed by the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and the George C.

Many librarians are looking to re-invent their rolesand their profession in the era of Google. Accordingly, the launch of the Journal of eScience Librarianship is timely.

Digital Preservation Europe has tried to make the topic of digital preservation fun by creating cartoons around the issues.

The National Information Standards Organization and the National Federation for Advanced Information Services have issued a new Recommended Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials, Part A: Business Policies and Practices (NISO RP-15

Librarians who want to engage with researchers around long-term data management often use interviews to gather information about the data the researchers hold.

According to Graham Pryor, editor of Managing Research Data,

How can we encourage researchers to share data?

The Medical Research Council in the UK annually invests around £700 million of public money in research, the primary output of which is data.

The National Science Board has recently issued a report, Digital Research Data Sharing and Management, from their Task Force on Data Policies. The Board is calling for comments.

In the US, 2.5 petabytes of data are stored annually just for mammograms.

The volume of earth-observation data from the European Space Agency's satellites passed three petabytes in 2007. The projection for 2020? A seven-fold rise.