Columbia Research Data Symposium 2013

A Research Data Symposium was held at Columbia University on Wednesday, February 27. Here are a couple of projects that stood out while trolling tweets and @robincamille’s notes .

Two innovate startups that especially stood out to me:

• Figshare.com
• Nanohub.org

Both are novel approaches to sharing research data and even, in Nanohub's case, analysis software. Nanohub is building a more community-focused platform for nanotechnology researchers. Figshare, backed by for-profit MacMillan publishing company, is open to all disciplines.

Both strike me as repository platforms that people might actually want to use.

What Will ORCID Do For Me?

What is ORCID?

ORCID stands for Open Researcher & Contributor ID. ORCID aims to solve the author or contributor name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by creating a central registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCID and other current author ID schemes.

As of 2012, 300 organizations had joined ORCID as participants. Dykes Library is excited to participate in ORCID and to help realize the potential benefits to KU.

Connecting E-science and Team Science: The Changing Nature of Research

Join us on November 18 from 1:00-2:30 PM in Dykes Library Room 1028 for the webinar "Connecting E-science and Team Science: The Changing Nature of Research" presented by the Medical Library Association. Topics include an intro to eScience, understanding research, collaborative science, and librarians' roles in eScience. Please register here

Please go here to see the agenda and list of presenters.