Peter Brantley's blog on data

I just picked up this July 7 post by Peter Brantley, on the Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth, commenting, in part,

"We don't know how to deal with this type of data generation, and its onslaught, and we will have to learn. Fast. We can acquire it; store it; increasingly, we can preserve it. We are struggling to learn how to describe it; publish it; search across it; make it available for access and re-use, for teaching and disparate forms of research; and most critically, we must learn how to learn from the data itself."

More at: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/the_sensing_ear.html

Guide to Open Data Licensing

Guide to OpenDataLicensing

Fresh out of the UK, "This a guide to licensing data aimed particularly at those who want to make their data open....The first section deals with the practical question of how to license your data. The second section discusses what kinds of rights (intellectual property or other) exist in data in various jurisdictions."

Welcome, first post

The MIT Data Initiatives Group of science and engineering librarians has created a public version of our internal web site so that we can share and get feedback on our work. See the beta version of this now at:
http://web.mit.edu/~annagold/www/data/dig.html.

We are also hoping to create an open wiki for science and engineering librarians interested in data issues, where we can collaborate on building both theory and practice related to managing and accessing data as part of the scholarly record. Interested in working with us? Contact Anna at annagold@mit.edu.