There is a lot to think about at the start of this project. The goals are “measuring interconnections made and the potential for new types of science that may be only now emerging and largely unrealized.” How do we measure the impact of DataONE? How can we predict where “new Continue reading A question of impact
Eileen had become an expert in datasets involving oil spills around the world. Horrified but equally fascinated by these man-made disasters, she had made a career out of tracking the oil spills and their ecological fallout. While she often felt sickened by witnessing such devastation, Eileen’s gloomy specialty had at Continue reading The Patience of the Data Hunter
I worked with Stacy and Amber through the rough cut and fine cut of DataONE’s first Data Story inspired video. I know the anticipation is killing you but, I should be able to post it in its entireity on the DataONE vimeo site next week (once approved by a DataONE committee). Continue reading Week #05 : whet your palette
As a PhD student, Amelia spent a lot of her time digging through fisheries data from around the world. With travel funds available, Amelia set off for a chain of islands off the coast of Italy. Three months – that was all the time she would have to analyze local Continue reading Data Lockdown
Here’s a little sneak peak of production that I’ve been working on… I’ve had some luck with nature locations this week and capturing some nice time-lapses. Here is a behind the scenes photo of me at a beautiful field: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3hbioR_dmPMaW55QlVtcDhHQkk/edit?usp=sharing I’m always keeping an eye out for some roadkill – nothing Continue reading Week #03 : Video Production and Time-lapse
Nora was a PhD student when she attended a meeting that would change the course of her career. Until that point, Nora had thought of herself chiefly as an entomologist, with her primary work objective being (as she joked with her colleagues) counting bugs. Born and raised in the Midwest, Continue reading Tallying Every Bug and Byte
Dr. Watson was accustomed to seeing dead things. As a wildlife ecologist, he had made a career out of investigating animals and their untimely demise under the rumbling engines of motor vehicles. Animal road mortalities had a reputation for being difficult to track because the majority of incidents went unreported, Continue reading The Long and Winding Road to Public Data
In the United States, the 1930s was far from a time of plenty. Through the Great Depression, Americans witnessed a razing of the financial system that, on the heels of the prosperous 1920s, seemed nearly incomprehensible. A time of hunger, homelessness, and desperation, the Great Depression sticks in our national Continue reading If Trees Could Talk
I think it’d be wise to add at least a mention of what an early adopter is related to the figshare article. Some poking around on Google Scholar shows there is both an organizational early adopter and an individual early adopter. I did a Google Scholar search for: individual AND Continue reading Defining “Early Adopters” of Data Sharing Platforms
I’m behind in consulting the literature for references to figshare. From participating in the 2013 Walter E. Dean Environmental Information Management Institute, I am aware of a trend in research for using scholarly databases to conduct a “meta analysis.” The book about meta analysis we referenced for the course in Continue reading Designing a Meta-Analysis for Data Sharing via Open Science Networks