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MIT Libraries Program on Information Science
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MIT Libraries Program on Information Science
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MISSION
The Program for Information Science
seeks to solve emerging problems in
information management that are
essential to support new and innovative
services, and to amplify the impact that
MIT can have on the development of
information science, information policy,
and scholarly communication through
participation the development of
standards, policy, and methods related
to information science and information
management.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Public Participation GIS :The Case of
Redistricting
Out of Cite, Out of Mind: The Current
State of Practice, Policy and
Technology for Data Citation
National Agenda for Digital
Stewardship
NDSA Storage Report: Reflections on
National Digital Stewardship Alliance
Member Approaches to Preservation
Storage Technologies
A Half-Century of Virginia
Redistricting Battles: Shifting from
Rural Malapportionment to Voting
Rights to Public Participation
Redistricting Principles for the
Twenty-First Century
UPCOMING EVENTS
Information Privacy Across the Research Lifecycle (Brown Bag Talk)
10/31/2013 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Dissemination Information Packages for Information Reuse (Brown Bag Talk)
11/14/2013 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Crowd Source Mapping for Open Government (Brown Bag Talk)
12/12/2013 12:00pm to 1:00pm
An Overview of “3-D Printing” Technology (Brown Bag Talk)
1/16/2014 12:00pm to 1:00pm
LATEST NEWS
Comprehensive report on data citation published in Data Science
September 13, 2013
The U.S. CODATA and the Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) is
pleased to announce the publication of a new report: Out of Cite, Out of Mind: The
Current State of Practice, Policy, and Technology for the Citation of Data. The
report was authored by the CODATA-ICSTI Task Group on Data Citation Standards
and Practices. The project was directed by the staff of the US CODATA/BRDI.
DSpace version 3.2 Released
July 24, 2013
The DuraSpace foundation released DSpace 3.2. DSpace 3.2 is a minor update to
the huge 3.0 release, providing bug fixes and a security fix to the 3.x platform.
For more information see: dspace.org/latest-release
National Digital Stewardship Alliance releases inaugural agenda for digital
stewardship
July 23, 2013
As members of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA), a consortium of
over 145 leading government, academic, and private sector organizations committed
to long term preservation of digital information, the MIT Libraries are pleased to
announce the NDSA’s release of the inaugural National Agenda for Digital
Stewardship.
Dataverse version 3.5.1 Released
July 11, 2013
Harvard University released version 3.5.1 of the Dataverse Network adds the ability to
request access to restricted files on a file-by-file basis upload and extract tar files
and UI improvements. UNF functionality is not affected in this release.
FEATURED PROJECTS
NEWS FROM THE COMMUNITY
drmaltman Ann Wolpert has
died away. She was both leader
and mentor -wise, visionary,
and humane. I will deeply miss
her. t.co/rLln56jsxI
3 weeks 1 day ago.
drmaltman For those who
asked for slides from the RDA
talk, a preview of the citation
principles synthesis work
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1 month 1 week ago.
drmaltman Illuminating
Scholarly Dark Matter
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drmaltman Bizarro, Acxiom
knows a lot about you, much of
it wrong, and will now let you
correct ...some:
t.co/6eTmVvx7vc
1 month 2 weeks ago.
drmaltman Some Lessons from
Crowd-sourced Mapping for
Open Government
t.co/YwjkL9NPa8
1 month 2 weeks ago.
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