Global Knowledge Exchange.Net (GKEN)

The 34 page report on key challenges and recommendations to NSF on "Digital Research Data Sharing and Management" was released for comment on December 14, 2011. Comments accepted through January 18, 2012.

In an edited excerpt from his new book, Too Big to Know, David Weinberger explains how the massive amounts of data necessary to deal with complex phenomena exceed any single brain's ability to grasp, yet networked science rolls on.

OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe), a project funded within the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), develops a network of open repositories providing free online access to knowledge produced by researchers receiving grants from the European Commission or the European Research Council

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