LSHTM Research Data Management Summary Guides

A set of one-page guides to good practice on various data management-related topics, including data management plans, data encryption and data sharing. These guides are CC-licensed and can be re-purposed by other institutions. Editable versions of the guides can be found in the ZIP archive

Health funder requirements for data management and sharing

A set of guides that describe data management and sharing requirements established by funding agencies that support LSHTM research projects

LSHTM Data Compass Procedures

LSHTM Data Compass is a digital repository of research data and other digital objects produced by researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and its affiliates. These procedures outlines processes for the management of digital objects that the LSHTM Library & Archives has agreed to curate and preserve for the purpose of making available through LSHTM Data Compass

LSHTM Data Compass Deposit Guides

Tutorials on creating Project and Data Collection records in LSHTM Data Compass and rules for describing various resource types, including search strategies and qualitative/quantitative data

It's Public Knowledge: The National Digital Archive of Datasets

This article describes the history and development of the National Digital Archive of Datasets, a service run by the University of London Computer Centre for the National Archives of England. It discusses the project in light of the context in which it emerged in the 1990s, its departure in approach from traditional data archives, and the range of archival functions. Finally, it offers reflections on the project as whole. Cet article décrit l’histoire et le développement du National Digital Archive of Datasets, un service offert par le centre informatique de l’Université de Londres pour les Archives nationales de l’Angleterre. L’auteure présente le contexte dans lequel le projet a émergé dans les années 1990, son approche qui diffère de celle des archives de données informatiques traditionnelles, ainsi que la gamme de ses fonctions archivistiques. Finalement, elle offre des réflexions sur le projet dans son ensemble

Developing a model for e-prints and open access journal content in UK further and higher education

A study carried out for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee examined models for the provision of access to material in institutional and subject-based archives and in open access journals. Their relative merits were considered, addressing not only technical concerns but also how e-print provision (by authors) can be achieved – an essential factor for an effective e-print delivery service (for users). A "harvesting" model is recommended, where the metadata of articles deposited in distributed archives are harvested, stored and enhanced by a national service. This model has major advantages over the alternatives of a national centralized service or a completely decentralized one. Options for the implementation of a service based on the harvesting model are presented

Mining the ESO WFI and INT WFC archives for known Near Earth Asteroids. Mega-Precovery software

The ESO/MPG WFI and the INT WFC wide field archives comprising 330,000 images were mined to search for serendipitous encounters of known Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) and Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs). A total of 152 asteroids (44 PHAs and 108 other NEAs) were identified using the PRECOVERY software, their astrometry being measured on 761 images and sent to the Minor Planet Centre. Both recoveries and precoveries were reported, including prolonged orbital arcs for 18 precovered objects and 10 recoveries. We analyze all new opposition data by comparing the orbits fitted before and after including our contributions. We conclude the paper presenting Mega-Precovery, a new online service focused on data mining of many instrument archives simultaneously for one or a few given asteroids. A total of 28 instrument archives have been made available for mining using this tool, adding together about 2.5 million images forming the Mega-Archive.Comment: Accepted for publication in Astronomische Nachrichten (Sep 2012

Harvesting for disseminating, open archives and role of academic libraries

The Scholarly communication system is in a critical stage, due to a number of factors.The Open Access movement is perhaps the most interesting response that the scientific community has tried to give to this problem. The paper examines strengths and weaknesses of the Open Access strategy in general and, more specifically, of the Open Archives Initiative, discussing experiences, criticisms and barriers. All authors that have faced the problems of implementing an OAI compliant e-print server agree that technical and practical problems are not the most difficult to overcome and that the real problem is the change in cultural attitude required. In this scenario the university library is possibly the standard bearer for the advent and implementation of e-prints archives and Open Archives services. To ensure the successful implementation of this service the Library has a number of distinct roles to play

IMPLEMENTASI KEBIJAKAN APLIKASI E - BOOK DI KOTA BATU (STUDI KASUS DINAS PERPUSTAKAAN DAN KEARSIPAN KOTA BATU)

The use of technology in the field of education at this time must be further developed amidst tighter competition, so it must give rise to innovation to continue to progress. The Batu City Library and Archives Service created an e-book application to make it easier for people to access books from anywhere. It is hoped that the e-book application can increase people's interest in reading, which is increasingly decreasing over time. The purpose of this research is to determine the implementation of the e-book application policy in the Batu City library and archives service. The theory used in this research is Edward III which has four elements, namely: communication, human resources, bureaucratic structure and disposition. This research uses a qualitative descriptive method with a descriptive research type, so that the explanation presented in this research can be conveyed well. With data collection techniques through observation, interviews and documentation. This research was conducted at the library and archives service in Batu City, East Java

An Architecture for Scaling NVO Services to TeraGrid

The term "cyberinfrastructure" has been adopted by the US National Science Foundation to mean "advanced computing engines, data archives and digital libraries, observation and sensor systems, and other research and education instrumentation [linked] into a common framework". One of the largest awards in this program is the TeraGrid, a linkage of large supercomputer centers based on the Globus software. Another cyberinfrastructure program is the National Virtual Observatory, a linkage of astronomical data publishers into a service-oriented framework. There are different philosophies behind the TeraGrid and the NVO architecture. This note explains a proposed service-oriented architecture for TeraGrid nodes that is an attempt to bridge these ways of working, and a prototype instantiation at Caltech