VIDaaS (Virtual Infrastructure with Database as a Service) is a project of two halves. The 'DaaS' part will develop software that enables researchers to build, edit, search, and share databases online; the 'VI' part involves the development of an infrastructure enabling the DaaS to function within a cloud computing environment. How does it compare to Harvard's plans? is it similar to Dataverse?

Harvard researchers have developed a tool for analyzing large data sets that detects important relationships in data without prior knowledge of their type. The development comes at a time when researchers are being overwhelmed by the vast amounts of data emerging from their labs, and struggling to make sense of them.

a model for a tool registry for digital scholarship?

Aims " to collect, preserve, and make accessible as much of the digital record of the disasters as possible, to enable scholarly research and analysis of the events and their effect." A new project from metaLab

Teaching with the HIGHBROW Annotation Browser

The Repositories Support Project has released the Survey of Academic Attitudes to Open Access and Institutional Repositories-An RSP and UKCoRR Initiative.

At the European level, the Digital Agenda for Europe 2020 identifies 'opening up public data resources for re-use' as a key action in support of the Digital Single Market. 2 The European Commission is reviewing the Directive on Re-Use of Public Sector Information. The Commission's The New Renaissance report 3 , published in January 2011, emphatically endorsed open data. At the national level, for example in the UK, the higher education community has issued the Open Metadata Principles 4 calling on metadata to be openly available for innovative re-use.

examples of scenarios and of a process to develop them

companion to e-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice (Routledge, 2009) and includes material both supplementing and expanding what is contained in the book. The site contains background information, new research and resources, visualizations, and opportunity to post comments and contact contributors. It is a dynamic site in the sense that additions and revisions are frequently made

A Web service developed by Microsoft Research lets people curate their own personal history - project call "Project Greenwich" launched in Beta in October

Showing that articles with links to data get higher citation rates might increase the willingness of scientists to take the extra steps of linking data sources to their publications. In this presentation we will show this is indeed the case: articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links.

Amazon.com has launched a lending library for US Kindle owners with Prime membership today (3rd November), after signing deals on a "variety of terms" with publishers.