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What is VeRSI?

By Craig | Published: February 23, 2010

Overview of VeRSI from VeRSI on Vimeo.

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Data-Intensive Research: how should we improve our ability to use data

By Craig | Published: February 22, 2010

Today there is a growing abundance of data often in large-scale collections or with great complexity. It is pertinent to every pressing strategic challenge, to the deep questions that research addresses and the urgent application sciences. A great deal of thought is needed to improve our capabilities to use data well in a wide variety [...]

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Scientists dispute climate sceptic’s claim that US weather data is useless

By Craig | Published: February 16, 2010

An interesting twist on the Climate Change debate. When data is made public, so too is the basis in which this data was collected. Data is part of a scientific argument; it isn’t ‘absolute truth’. It appeared to have shaken the credibility of one of the most important global warming data sets in the world. [...]

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Leaked climate change emails scientist ‘hid’ data flaws

By Craig | Published: February 2, 2010

This is one of the reasons we have eScience and citable, re-usable (and verifible) data. Phil Jones, the beleaguered British climate scientist at the centre of the leaked emails controversy, is facing fresh claims that he sought to hide problems in key temperature data on which some of his work was based. A Guardian investigation [...]

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Tim Berners Lee on free data and the BBC’s Virtual Revolution

By Craig | Published: January 27, 2010

Tim Berners-Lee discusses the launch of the government’s new open data project, and Dan Gluckman explains why the BBC was so keen to open the development of a new series about the social history of the web (link) Also see: http://data.gov.uk/

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Ordnance Survey maps to go free online

By Craig | Published: November 18, 2009

The government is to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April, in a victory for the Guardian’s three-year Free Our Data campaign. The move will bring the UK into line with the free publication of maps that exists in the US. Gordon Brown announced the change at a joint [...]

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Open Science and Data

By Craig | Published: November 10, 2009

As part of JISC’s ‘Research 3.0 – driving the knowledge economy’ activity which launches at the end of November, a new Open Science report released today trails key research trends that could have far-reaching implications for science, universities and UK society. The report written by UKOLN at the University of Bath and the Digital Curation [...]

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