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Research data and data ownership – the continuing saga
I left off my last blog post with a question – well, actually a few questions: WHO owns this data? The supervisor – who is the PI on the research project you’ve been hired onto? OR you as the data collector and analyser? Hmmm…… When you think about these questions – the next question becomes…
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Tips to standardize data
There are many high quality vocabularies, taxonomies and ontologies that researchers can use and incorporate into their schemas to help improve the quality and accuracy of their data. We’ve already talked about ontologies here in this blog but here we go into a few more details. Semantic Objects Vocabularies, ontologies, and taxonomies are examples of…
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Do I own the data or not?
…and we’re back to the data ownership quandry… Just when I think I may have heard all the different types of questions and situations that may arise in the context of data ownership – I hear a new one. When I first heard the situation I’m going to share with you in a moment –…
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Introducing JSON schemas for OCA
If you have been already using the Semantic Engine to write your schemas you will have come across the .zip schema bundle. This is the machine-readable version of your schema written in JSON where each component of you schema is a separate file inside a .zip folder. Overlays Capture Architecture has transitioned now to a…
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Should we share our research data?
As data archivists and data analysts, this question crops up a lot! Let’s be honest with ourselves there is NO one answer fits all here! I would love to say YES we should share our data – but then I step back and say HOLD IT! I don’t want anyone being able to access my…
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Resiliency of Identifiers
Broken links are a common frustration when navigating the web. If you’ve ever clicked on a reference only to land on a “404 Not Found” page, you know how difficult it can be to track down missing content. In research, broken links pose a serious challenge to reproducibility—if critical datasets, software, or methodologies referenced in…
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Decentralization and digests
Digests as identifiers Overlays Capture Architecture (OCA) uses a type of digest called SAIDs (Self-Addressing IDentifiers) as identifiers. Digests are essentially digital fingerprints which provide an unambiguous way to identify a schema. Digests are calculated directly from the schema’s content, meaning any change to the content results in a new digest. This feature is crucial…
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Decentralization and Research
What does it mean for research to be decentralized? And how does this relate to ADC? I will use Learning Digital Identity (see also this blog post by the author Phil Windley) for definitions as I think it does the best job. Centralized – Decentralized axis: This axis describes the control of the system. Is…
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Data Ownership – another quandary to consider…
So we started the data ownership thread with The “Elephant in the Room” post. We started with a fairly clean example but there was definitely room for interpretation – enough for an elephant some may say…. Let’s try another situation and see what everyone’s thoughts are. Many of us rely on the wonderful internet to…
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Upgrades to Data Entry Web tool
Using the Semantic Engine you can enter both your data and your schema and compare your schema against the rules of your schema. This is useful for data verification and the tool is called Data Entry Web (DEW). When you use the DEW tool all your data will be verified and the different cells coloured…
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