Creative & Common : Blog Week #01

I find that every great story is derived from detailed interviews and research.  I’ve started out my piece of the project with a handful of great stories about DATA collection and a great amount of freedom to research content to support these stories. For those who don’t know, it’s my Continue reading Creative & Common : Blog Week #01

Text Processing Methods for Data Extraction (PDF to HTML conversion)

Tried for mac: VeryPDF “PDF to Any Converter” Did not like it.  PDF to HTML was not good.  PDF to Excel was ok, but one complaint is the documents are placed into a new folder Might be useful: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdftohtml/. From the first freeware/trial ware software I tried, I’m definitely dog-earing Continue reading Text Processing Methods for Data Extraction (PDF to HTML conversion)

Designing a Systematic Review Assessing Prevalence of Open Science Data Sharing

In a previous post I realized the need to do a systematic review of literature to determine prevalence of the use of figshare, both in terms of citation and in terms of actual studies of an open science platform such as figshare. To start with, I need to determine what Continue reading Designing a Systematic Review Assessing Prevalence of Open Science Data Sharing

Designing a Meta-Analysis for Data Sharing via Open Science Networks

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