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Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: The Repository of Last Resort? Exploring the Role of Institutional Repositories in the Data Repository Ecosystem through Researcher Perspectives

Editors’ Summary: This paper studies a common tool for researchers to share their quantitative or data sources: the data repository run usually by university libraries. These repositories allow users to download datasets that researchers have curated. This paper provides a helpful glimpse into the user identity and persona of researchers working with data repositories. They […]

News, Reports

Report: The State of Open Data Report 2017

From the report: Figshare’s annual report, The State of Open Data 2017, looks at global attitudes towards open data. It includes survey results of 2,300 respondents and a collection of articles from industry experts, as well as a foreword from Jean-Claude Burgelman, Head of Unit Open Data Policies and Science Cloud at the European Commission. […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Data Driven Art History

This is the first post in Data Praxis, a new series edited by Thomas Padilla. Data Praxis highlights a range of perspectives on the practice of digitally inflected research, pedagogy, curation, and collection building and augmentation. Topics span methods and tools in the context of research questions and/or exploratory trajectories, and extend to consider reflections on […]