[open-science] github/R stack for the nomadic researcher

Tue Apr 10 08:25:01 UTC 2012

Yes indeed! Perhaps I could mention this submission that I threw
together for the Open Repositories conference OR12
(http://or2012.ed.ac.uk):

http://ckan.okfnpad.org/or12

My idea was that we could boot a new instance of ckan specialised for
research papers (slightly facetiously called thepaperhub.org), but I
don't know how easy this is, or whether there would be enthusiasm from
someone technically literate to keep it running. (Volunteers?)
Meantime thedatahub.org is a good option.

I gather OR12 will be accepting/rejecting submissions on 16 April, incidentally.

Mark

On 2 April 2012 20:01, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Jessy Kate Schingler <jessy at jessykate.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> i agree on the dataforge front...  git doesn't handle large files well,
>> and figshare, buzzdata etc. seem to be mostly for visual or tabular data
>> sets. out of curiosity, as i'm starting to learn about thedatahub.com,
>
>
> thedatahub.org I think
>
>>
>> it seems rather perfect for data set management, and even has a change
>> lists for data sets, groups, user pages, etc. (especially if there were some
>> command line tools so i could "commit" changes to my data set periodically
>> and upload them :)).
>>
>> is there a reason people find ckan/thedatahub insufficient for data
>> management needs? is it related to technical/features, or to peoples'
>> familiarity and confidence around the longevity of the site?
>
>
> It's history, I think. We should now be making the case for such a
> repository and I don't think Figshare is it. I have rather negelected
> datahub because the original CKAN was metadata-oriented.
>
> I'll be making the case in Europe next week that we badly need informal
> repositories and maybe this is the time to push the datahub?
>
> P.
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Tom,
>>> This is a really valuable post. I feel your concerns directly. I have
>>> copied in our new Panton fellows (though I am sure they read this list
>>> anyway!)
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [apologies for length of post, but it's a big topic]
>>>
>>>
>>> No apologies needed!
>>>
>>> I am giving an important presentation to  Europe "Open Infrastructures
>>> for Open Science" and Neelie Kroes and others will be there. I am getting my
>>> thoughts together as I have to give the plenary that informs the rest of the
>>> workshop. Currently my thoughts are:
>>>
>>> Europe (and the world) is losing 10 billion + in unused and restricted
>>> data. (I said this to Hargreaves)
>>> We MUST have easily accessible research repositories, probably on a
>>> domain basis (Dryad, Pangaea, TARDIS, etc.)
>>> Institutional Repos do not work for STM and never will
>>> Mandates are a blunt weapon and so far have little effectiveness
>>> Non-Commercial destroys knowledge
>>>
>>> We must give the researchers something they want. Sourceforge does this
>>> for code. I use Sourceforge (actually now Bitbucket and Github) several
>>> times a day. All my code is backed up, shareable, reusable, validated etc.
>>>
>>> There must be a "Data forge" for Europe. Figshare was built by one
>>> graduate student in one year. I would give 3rd year graduate students
>>> funding to do this - it's a hundred times more cost effective than
>>> repositories.
>>>
>>> I'd like to collect ideas on this llist and present them next week
>>> (11th). An OKF data manifesto for Open Science (in Europe) Who knows what
>>> might come?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> --
>>> Peter Murray-Rust
>>> Reader in Molecular Informatics
>>> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
>>> University of Cambridge
>>> CB2 1EW, UK
>>> +44-1223-763069
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jessy
>> http://jessykate.com
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Peter Murray-Rust
> Reader in Molecular Informatics
> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
> CB2 1EW, UK
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