Science Announcing The Dat Anacapa Container Today we are releasing Anacapa Container, which enables reproducibility of research environment and data across campuses.
Decentralization Shared Infrastructure: A Cooperative Preservation Network for Data Research and cultural heritage institutions are facing increasing costs to preserve digital objects like scientific data, digital art, and other artifacts. As many institutions move data to cloud services, preservation costs and complexity
Community Collaborative Communities at CZI Human Cell Atlas Meeting At the end of April we joined scientists working on Chan Zuckerberg Science's (CZI) Human Cell Atlas (HCA) project to facilitate a session on collaboration for scientists. Improving communities ability to collaborate is
Science Data sharing between institutions Interested in beta testing secure data sharing software? Try out the new Dat install and data sharing workflow with a friend and let us know how it went.
Science Practical Decentralization of Scholarly Data & Resources It’s time for scholars to ask whether today’s data preservation technologies align with open scholarship’s values of access, preservation, privacy, and transparency.
Science Is Open Science ready for software containers? As part of Dat in the Lab we are working with different campuses in the University of California network. One of our goals is to publish researcher's data, code, and executable Linux container all as files in a version controlled Dat repository.
Science Virtualizing environments for eDNA analysis Last month we introduced on this blog the research groups at UC Davis and UC Merced that we'll be working with for the Dat in the Lab project. Read on to hear where this project is taking us (hint in the header photo).
Science Using Dat for automatic file backups Here's a short tutorial about how to use the dat command line tool, plus a couple other fun utilities we have written, to automate the backup of files in real time from your
Science Dat in the Lab at UC Merced: Reproducible bioinformatics pipelines in marine ecology This week the Dat in the Lab team visited Mike Dawson’s lab at UC Merced. We learned about jellyfish in Palau’s marine lakes, sea star wasting disease, and environmental DNA.
Science Dat in the Lab at UC Davis: A tale of office dogs, watershed sciences, and user feedback. To kick off Dat in the Lab, our collaboration with UC researchers, Max, Stephen, and Danielle traveled to the University of California at Davis to talk to Nick Santos and others at the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences (CWS).
Science Moore Foundation supports new collaboration with California Digital Library (and a new team member!) We are excited to announce a new project called Dat in the Lab. The project is a collaboration between the us and the California Digital Library (CDL) with support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Science Locking Science Open with Decentralized Scientific Archives Last year, we spoke at Internet Archive's Decentralized Web Summit and demonstrated Dat as a way to lock open scientific articles, data, and code together in one decentralized archive.
Science Mention in the New York Times We got mentioned in the New York Times about our work with the University of California Digital Library and the Data Refuge efforts. Read the article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/
Conferences Reflections from International Data Week 2016 International Data Week in September 2016 brought together three events, SciDataCon, the International Data Forum, and the Research Data Alliance 8th plenary. Joe Hand from the Dat team attended the conference.
Conferences An Introduction To Persistent Identifiers This week in Reykjavik, Iceland I attended PIDapalooza, the first community conference dedicated to the topic of persisent identifiers (PIDs) for the scholarly web. As a relative newcomer to this community I wanted