Innovative “Bite-Sized Lunchtime Talks” Offer Unique Opportunity for SICSS-Howard/Mathematica Participants To See Data at Work
SICSS-Howard/Mathematica participants had the benefit of novel Bite-Sized Lunchtime Talks during the inaugural SICSS at a Historically Black College or University. The purpose of this SICSS-H/M specific site innovation was to introduce participants to people and organizations doing impactful and complementary work with data.
Notes on Google Dataset Search
I’ve just got back from a fantastic workshop looking at infrastructure for research data discovery. I’ll blog about the workshop in due course, but I was asked to comment on Google Dataset Search (GDS). I had the chance to meet with Natasha Noy from Google who is behind the service.
As with many Google services, it has been created by a small team, but with the underlying web-scale infrastructure of Google to build on top of. They look for data sets on the web that have been identified using Home - schema.org tags. Data repositories that expose these tags will get indexed by GDS (this includes both Figshare and DataDryad).