Global Knowledge Exchange.Net (GKEN)

The Toolkit consists of two tools: the KRDS Benefits Framework (Tool 1); and the Value-chain and Benefits Impact tool (Tool 2). Each tool consists of a detailed guide and worksheet(s).

Program announcement from the National Science Foundation. "to enhance and expand the national resource of digital data documenting existing vouchered biological and paleontological collections and to advance scientific knowledge by improving access to digitized information (including images) residing in vouchered scientific collections across the United States. " Seeking proposals from academic, governmental and non-profit orgs.

Open-source scientific workflow and provenance management system developed at the University of Utah that provides support for data exploration

Four decades of sociological research points to a future society where education performance will be the singular dominant factor in social status attainment, and education will be one of the most transforming of social institutions for individuals and other social institutions

Twelve national organisations have signed up to a new set of open metadata principles and now JISC is inviting all publicly funded organisations including universities, colleges, libraries, museums and archives to make the same commitment

How should the university campus interface with national cyberinfrastructure (CI)? What role do networks play in today's data-intensive environment?

authors were most likely to share data if they had prior experience sharing or reusing data, if their study was published in an open access journal or a journal with a relatively strong data sharing policy, or if the study was funded by a large number of NIH grants. Authors of studies on cancer and human subjects were least likely to make their datasets available.

on the dangers or filters that web companies are applying when they think THEY know what you want to know