[Sigdl-l] [Dlib-subscribers] The January/February 2014 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available.

Dick Hill rhill at asis.org
Fri Jan 17 11:18:37 EST 2014


Greetings:

The January/February 2014 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) 
is now available.

This is a special issue on the topic of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) 
with guest editors Fran Berman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Ross 
Wilkinson, Australian National Data Service; and John Wood, The 
Association of Commonwealth Universities. The issue contains five 
articles and two conference reports. The 'In Brief' column presents five 
short pieces and excerpts from recent press releases. In addition you 
will find news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 
the 'Clips and Pointers' column. This month, D-Lib features DataVis.ca, 
courtesy of Michael Friendly, Professor of Psychology, Chair of the 
graduate program in Quantitative Methods at York University.

The guest editorial is:

Building Global Infrastructure for Data Sharing and Exchange Through the 
Research Data Alliance
by Fran Berman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Ross Wilkinson, 
Australian National Data Service; John Wood, The Association of 
Commonwealth Universities

The articles include:

Synthesis of Working Group and Interest Group Activity One Year into the 
Research Data Alliance
by Beth Plale, Indiana University

Data Type Registries: A Research Data Alliance Working Group
by Daan Broeder, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; Laurence 
Lannom, Corporation for National Research Initiatives

Improving Access to Recorded Language Data
by Simon Musgrave, Monash University, Australian National Corpus

Opening and Linking Agricultural Research Data
by Esther Dzale Yeumo Kabore, French National Institute for Agricultural 
Research; Devika Madalli, Indian Statistical Institute; Johannes Keizer, 
Food and Agriculture Office of the United Nations

Organizational Status of RDA
by Mark A. Parsons, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

The conference reports are:

Data Identification and Citation - The Key to Unlocking the Promise of 
Data Sharing and Reuse
by Adam Farquhar, British Library and DataCite; Jan Brase, DataCite

Big Humanities Data Workshop at IEEE Big Data 2013
by Tobias Blanke, Goettingen Centre for Digital Humanities, Department 
of Digital Humanities, Kings College London; Mark Hedges, King's College 
London; Richard Marciano, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations:

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http://dlib.anu.edu.au/

State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, 
Goettingen, Germany
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Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/

BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal
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(If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the 
January/February 2014 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check 
back later. Each mirror site has its own schedule for replicating D-Lib 
Magazine and, while most sites are quite responsive, on occasion there 
could be a delay of as much as 24 hours between the time the magazine is 
released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process 
has been completed.)

Bonnie Wilson
D-Lib Magazine


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