“The greatest discoveries made from your data will be made by someone else.....”

Great summary by Mary Ann Tuli and Bastien Molcrette from @GigaScience with highlights from the International Digital Curation Conference #IDCC25
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http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/idc25-the-greatest-discoveries-from-your-data/

The presentation by @PIDNetworkDE was also mentioned - thanks for that!

We are looking for a Machine Learning team (industry or research) who want to review and refine their data practices for improved documentation and reflexivity of their ML data workflow and better ML model outcomes. Is that you? Reach out!

This collaboration can take different shapes: jointly evaluating datasets, organizing workshops, action research, or other activities. More information and some options here: https://justsustainabilitydesign.org/2025/03/27/dcml_project_recruitment.html

Here's our 2024 overview, with a focus just on our #datacuration efforts. We'll share 2024 retrospectives about our work in professional development and #dataethics shortly.

It's been another active year, and we're grateful to our data contributors and our funders for their support and collaboration!

https://alexandriaarchive.org/2024/12/18/open-context-highlights-from-2024/

#DatabasesDemystified Part 3: Types of Curation

This advanced search discovers how many #databases have each of the different types of #datacuration @fairsharing describes: manual, automated, both manual and automated, none, or not found.

Surprisingly, most databases in FAIRsharing are manually curated. But why is the curation status of 30% of those databases unknown? Read more at https://blog.fairsharing.org/?p=868

Thanks to our team and our #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions

The World’s #CallCenter Capital Is Gripped by #AI Fever — and Fear. The experiences of staff in the #Philippines’ #outsourcing industry are a preview of the challenges and choices coming soon to #whitecollar #workers around the globe. #jobs #economy #artificialintelligence #laborscosts #algorithmtraining #datacuration #skills https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-08-27/philippines-call-centers-navigate-ai-impact-on-jobs

Having posted previously about having additional redundancy in social connections, I’ve taken it a step further by starting to grab copies of media that I like on the internet.

While I’d like to think the sites we use are resilient, too often I find that great artwork, stories, and videos disappear, never to be found again, and that’s kinda sad.

So what am I using for this effort? Right now, mostly right-click and save. For stories/articles, I found that using SingleFile is a great way to preserve a copy of the page (which if the page supports reader view, Firefox will let you use reader view on it!).

As for organising these files, I picked up filetags. It’s not the easiest thing to use but it’s forced me to think of what tags I would actually use, plus it has a pretty neat navigation view by invoking filetags --tagtrees --filebrowser none, so you can filter down just by going into folders.

Brief and knowledgeable article about importance of #Evaluation, #Datalabeling and #curation, and #Testing while building AI applications.

The recent case with Figma shows how it's important, as feeding an AI application with the other apps' data, not testing attentively could potentially lead to losses and court. Figma disabled its new AI-powered app design tool, Make Design, after it was found to be copying Apple's weather app. The CEO acknowledged the fault was due to insufficient QA processes and emphasized the need for rigorous testing before deployment.

Article 1: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/focus/tech-trends/2024/freeplay-ceo-discusses-process-change-ai-software-development.html

Article 2: https://www.404media.co/figma-disables-ai-app-design-tool-after-it-copied-apples-weather-app/

NEW Journal Article: "Understanding the Value of #Curation: A Survey of US #Data Repository Curation Practices and Perceptions" https://www.infodocket.com/2024/06/14/new-article-understanding-the-value-of-curation-a-survey-of-us-data-repository-curation-practices-and-perceptions/ #libraries #datarepositories #datacuration

First class, Spring term, new books, great reads. #dataCuration
@ Drexel CCI

h/t @edsu feat.
@tjowens @kanarinka
@laurenfklein.bsky.social

Data patterns for community survey data integrated into a data harmonization workflow description, O'Brien etal 2021 tackles the issue of diverse data harmonization for ecological community surveys. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574954121001655 #DataScience #DataPipeline #DataCuration #SciLit

The development of high value data products requires close community collaborations as needs are challenging to anticipate a priori. Baker etal 2015 describe the socio-science context for a set of sea ice data products that illustrate this winding road. https://ijdc.net/ijdc/article/view/10.2.110 #DataScience #CommunityScience #DataCuration #SciLit

OMG the data curation network ( ) did a CARE principles primer project. If you haven't seen them, the DCN Data Curation Primers generally can be found at https://datacurationnetwork.org/outputs/data-curation-primers/ and they're amazing. This one specifically is located at https://github.com/DataCurationNetwork/data-primers/blob/master/CARE%20Primer/care-primer.md
I feel like I should have already known something this cool. Did I see the announcement and just lose it from my brain? So many great #datacuration data resources have come out this year.
#SEDLS2023

We are proud to announce that the #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions have had their first anniversary!
https://blog.fairsharing.org/?p=567 describes the ways in which these 18 fantastic people have enriched @fairsharing content while gaining attribution, expertise and networking.

Launched under @allysonlister's #RDA / #EOSCfuture Domain Ambassadorship
https://eoscfuture-grants.eu/node/262
@kylecopas @debsethorpe @neuropelletier @msandstr @GenevievMichaud @stephenserjeant @lnanderscience

For the #DataScience, #FediScience and #DataCuration folks ... just released version 1.0 of **whyqd** (/wɪkɪd/) - https://whyqd.readthedocs.io/

It's curatorial toolkit intended to produce well-structured and predictable data for research analysis. Underneath is #Pandas and #Pydantic, and you get nice, readable schema #ETL #crosswalks which you can run in a CI task.

I'd appreciate your thoughts.

Functional #DataCuration teams at #ICPSR (instead of study/topic specific curation) lead to more standardization and higher efficiency.

"Now the curators have each other's back"

Come join us at WashU Libraries, we’re hiring for a Digital Publishing Manager and a Data Curator & GIS Librarian! Happy to answer questions and Application links are here: https://library.wustl.edu/about/employment/
#gis #datacuration #digitalscholarship #publishing #jobs #hiring #academiclibraries