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Interesting blog post re the preservation of linked data: "Open data licenses do not merely permit and encourage re-use of data, they permit and encourage its preservation."

Abstract The deluge of research data has excited researchers, policy makers, and the general public. Not only might research be reproducible, but new questions can be asked, with great benefit to research, innovation, education, and the citizenry. However, very little data is being shared, despite the best efforts of funding agencies and journals. This article explores the complexities of data, research practices, innovation, incentives, economics, intellectual property, and public policy associated with the data sharing conundrum - "an intricate and difficult problem."

Unit 1 provides a broad overview of research data management for creative arts researchers. Definitions are offered and a case for effective data management is made. Common threats to research data are then examined, before presentation of an arts data workflow.

Kaggle is a web app for outsourcing statistical and analytics to data scientists who compete to produce solutions to the problems presented by users with their data. It's crowdsourcing for data analysis from computer science to economics to physics. Even NASA is using Kaggle.

Good bibliography on research data curation.

Excellent presentation on data management practices and file naming schemes: http://t.co/zPvuTuw6 #datamanagement #datacuration

Web-based data visualization tool. Has demos and sample applications and a tutorial. It is open source software developed at UC Berkeley.

A tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming into different formats, extending it with web services and linking to databases.

 A new platform to allow virtually anyone to create data visualizations

Free back up service for all or most of your cloud-based data. Works with Gmail, Google Docs & Calendar, Picassa, Twitter, Flickr, Blogger & Zoho. I use it.

This list is a working document, initated via a collaboration between the British Library, BioMed Central and the Digital Curation Centre, that aims to capture the growing number of repositories for research data. It is provided for information purposes only: DataCite provides no endorsements as to the quality or suitability of the repositories listed.

Catalogue of data management and curation tools from the UK's Digital Curation Centre