Late this August, California became a haven for proponents of data-sharing as the California Digital Library played host to the annual DataCite meeting in Berkeley. DataCite is a non-profit organization which aims to promote the sharing and re-use of research data by helping to provide tools to support a global infrastructure for data archiving, access, and citation. DataCite is composed [...]

July 13-16, Vancouver – We aim in this workshop to gather speakers to discuss best practices for “reproducible research”: The idea that research contributions in the computational sciences involve not only publication of an article in an academic venue, but also release of sufficient components of the software and data such that the results claimed can be reproduced and extended by other scientists.