As a scientist at the National Bureau of Standards in the 1950s, Russell Kirsch worked with the only programmable computer in the United States.
“The only thing that constrained us was what we imagined,” he says. “So there were a lot of things we thought of doing. One of which was, what would [...]
John Timmer at Ars Technica reports on a recent paper in Nature that revisits old data from XBT ‘float system’ ocean probes and matches it with more recent data from the advanced Argo system:
“Even though we can’t go back and improve the data we have from the years prior to this, the study demonstrates [...]
In a short Educause Review article, Christine L Borgman describes several types of academic activity that are being profoundly influenced by information technologies:
information-intensive scholarship
data-intensive scholarship
distributed scholarship
collaborative scholarship
multidisciplinary scholarship
Collectively, these are known as e-scholarship practices. They are types of academic behavior. They are not descriptions of the tools or technologies used in that behavior.
If academic librarians [...]
In an article for The Australian (newspaper), Bernard Lane points to some examples of universities re-using their publications data: publishing their research output online for easy, open access and using the repository’s bibliographic details for mandatory reports to government.
Most Australian universities have an online repository of their research papers, articles and theses. Some have adopted [...]
M’colleague Michael asked this week whether the Information Futures Commission has identified any recent-ish equivalents to itself at other universities.
A related question has come up several times in the last couple of months. When we ask a senior stakeholder for an opinion about what issues the Commission should tackle, the response is often,”Well, what are [...]
