Ten Simple Rules for Digital Data Storage

Data is the central currency of science, but the nature of scientific data has changed dramatically with the rapid pace of technology. This change has led to the development of a wide variety of data formats, dataset sizes, data complexity, data use cases, and data sharing practices. Improvements in high throughput DNA sequencing, sustained institutional support for large sensor networks, and sky surveys with large-format digital cameras have created massive quantities of data. At the same time, the combination of increasingly diverse research teams and data aggregation in portals (e.g. for biodiversity data, GBIF or iDigBio) necessitates increased coordination among data collectors and institutions. As a consequence, “data” can now mean anything from petabytes of information stored in professionally-maintained databases, through spreadsheets on a single computer, to hand-written tables in lab notebooks on shelves. All remain important, but data curation practices must continue to keep pace with the changes brought about by new forms and practices of data collection and storage.</jats:p

Evolution 2015 tweets

<p>The list of tweets with the hashtag #evol2015 retrieved on July 1st using Twitter's API.</p

Scaling Up Data Literacy and Computing Skills Training in Biodiversity Science, Lessons Learned from The Carpentries

The expanding availability of access to data about museum specimens, species occurrences, trait data, genetics, and landscapes is revolutionizing biodiversity research. But mobilizing, evaluating, and synthesizing these data to address research questions requires domain-specific computing skills and knowledge. The Carpentries is a global non-profit organization teaching researchers computational and data science skills for data management and analysis in all domains of research. The Carpentries' teaching practices are based on evidence from the science of learning. Current domain-specific lessons include life, physical, and social sciences. Hands-on exercises build on the existing knowledge of learners, quickly enabling them to apply skills learned to their research. The Carpentries' train-the-trainer model, its globally established community of ~2,000 instructors and its network of regional coordinators have allowed the organization to scale up rapidly, and over 40,000 learners have participated in Carpentries workshops since 2012. The Carpentries assessment program evaluates the impact of attending a workshop on the participants' perception of their skills and confidence. After attending a Carpentries workshop, participants feel more confident in their ability to program and to overcome issues with their analysis. The Carpentries' mentoring program ensures that newly certified instructors receive support and guidance to successfully engage in leading and teaching workshops. Pairing new and experienced instructors, in combination with the development of local communities of instructors, have contributed to the success of The Carpentries workshops. The Carpentries collaboratively seeks to develop new curricula to address the training needs of the biodiversity data community. Establishing training partnerships between The Carpentries and the various organizations involved in building biodiversity data science skills capacity would increase reach and efficacy. We seek to foster institutional and organizational collaborations that can support the establishment and growth of the infrastructure needed to provide the computational and data literacy skills needed to empower our stakeholders. These include those creating and mobilizing data (e.g., collectors, ecologists, conservationists, curators, collection/data managers), for all scientists, policy-makers, educators, and students who want to use biodiversity data

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Using iNaturalist to leran more about echinoderms (dataset)

<p>Dataset accompanying paper (http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1309937)</p

Using iNaturalist to learn more about Echinoderms

<p>This is a short article presenting the "Echinoderms" project on iNaturalist that will appear in "Reef Encounter" (ISSN 0225-27987), the newsletter of the International Society for Reef Studies.</p> <p>This article is open access (Creative Commons Attribution International License), fully reproducible and the source code is available at (https://github.com/fmichonneau/inat-paper)</p

Patrimoine et politiques urbaines en Méditerranée

Le constat de l’émergence des références patrimoniales dans la plupart des politiques urbaines contemporaines a conduit le programme « Villes et Territoires » de l’UMR Telemme à organiser en juin 2002 une journée d’études sur le thème des « enjeux de la patrimonialisation dans les politiques urbaines ». À partir de contributions multidisciplinaires et de situations urbaines diversifiées en Méditerranée, de Casablanca à Istanbul en passant par Barcelone, Marseille, Bologne, Naples et Palerme, il s’agissait de mettre en évidence les raisons et les formes de cette mobilisation patrimoniale dans les politiques publiques, aussi bien dans leur expression contemporaine que dans celle d’un passé plus ou moins éloigné. Le présent numéro de Rives présente quelques-unes de ces contributions structurées autour de deux thèmes qui ont permis des débats comparatifs : - les modalités de mobilisation des questions patrimoniales par les acteurs en charge des politiques urbaines aboutissant à des actions de conservation, de protection, de revitalisation ; - les enjeux de ces processus souvent exprimés en termes « d’identité », réelle ou reconstruite à partir d’un passé recomposé ou réinterprété. À travers le « culte de la mémoire » c’est un certain type de rapport au passé qui s’exprime dans ces interventions urbaines, qu’il s’agisse d’actions sur un monument ou un vestige emblématique (Istanbul, Marseille), la construction de nouvelles centralités dans une réinterprétation d’espaces publics historiques (Naples) ou l’affirmation d’une identité urbaine et nationale (le catalanisme à Barcelone à la fin du XIXe ou le modèle de la cité musulmane à Casablanca)