Posts Tagged ‘research data’
An update on federally-funded data
Earlier this month, the Center for Open Data Enterprise (CODE) published a report titled, “America’s Data Future: Towards A Roadmap for Action,” which provides an excellent and rich synthesis of the challenges facing federally-funded data, both that which is generated directly by government agencies like the U.S. Census Bureau or the U.S. Department of Agriculture…
Read MoreWorried about your research data? WHOAS is here to help!
You may have seen news about data being removed from various government websites, including NIH, CDC, and NOAA-sponsored sites as well as individual datasets from data.gov and other large aggregators. While this is indeed alarming, many data professionals in the wider research community were already working on creating backups and mirrors of government-hosted data. Those…
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