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Despite the benefits of data management planning for the researcher, many still regard it as an administrative burden. Interestingly, some institutions were able to turn data management planning into an opportunity to engage researchers in discussions about data. This chapter looks at several case studies where workflows have been designed to bring about interaction and engagement at key moments in the research process. Being able to work in collaboration with other support or management unit...

Effective Research Data Management (RDM) is a key component of research integrity and reproducible research, and its importance is increasingly emphasised by funding bodies, governments, and research institutions around the world. However, many researchers are unfamiliar with RDM best practices, and research support staff are faced with the diffi cult task of delivering support to researchers across diff erent disciplines and career stages. What strategies can institutions use to solve these problems? Engaging Researchers with Data Management is an invaluable collection of 24 case studies, drawn from institutions across the globe, that demonstrate clearly and practically how to engage the research community with RDM. These case studies together illustrate the variety of innovative strategies research institutions have developed to engage with their researchers about managing research data. Each study is presented concisely and clearly, highlighting the essential ingredients that led to its success and challenges encountered along the way. By interviewing key staff about their experiences and the organisational context, the authors of this book have created an essential resource for organisations looking to increase engagement with their research communities. This handbook is a collaboration by research institutions, for research institutions. It aims not only to inspire and engage, but also to help drive cultural change towards betier data management. It has been writien for anyone interested in RDM, or simply, good research practice.

Direct training requires substantial time and effort, but is one of the most effective ways to make people aware of the importance of Research Data Management (RDM) best practices. The following case studies are each aimed to engage researchers with research data through different training methods: Bring Your Own Data (B.Y.O.D.) workshop at the University of Cambridge; Methods Class Outreach at the University of Minnesota; PhD course at UiT The Arctic University of Norway; Open courses at UiT...

Humans are social animals, so physical events are a good vehicle with which to engage people. Who doesn’t like to go to concerts, gigs or exhibitions? Unsurprisingly, librarians have capitalised on people’s natural affinity for a get-together. Five different European libraries started using dedicated events to encourage research communities to be interested in data management and to create engagement, and the idea for such events is spreading. Two cases: the ‘Dealing with Data’ conference at ...

We are all familiar with what a data management lifecycle looks like: you start with the idea or the concept for your research journey, then move on to collecting a dataset and analysing it, then cleaning and tidying it up to prepare it for sharing, before finally preserving or archiving it for perpetuity. That is the ideal Research Data Management (RDM) scenario, but most of the time the final archiving step never happens. Instead, data remains with the original researchers and moves around ...

JClic, da solo o (meglio) in abbinamento con altri software autore, può essere usato in modo proficuo in ambito scolastico. La facilità e l'immediatezza del programma, ma anche la presenza di tanti progetti già pronti e di un'interfaccia di distribuzione appositamente predisposta, depongono a favore di JClic rispetto ad altri programmi autore comunque validi (ad esempio Hot Potatoes, Didapages e eXeLearning). Chi scrive negli ultimi 8 anni ha catalogato, ordinato e descritto migliaia di softw...

0.1. L'informatica nella scuola italiana Oggi in Italia le scuole primarie pongono molta attenzione alla implementazione di strumenti utili a migliorare i procedimenti di insegnamento-apprendimento. In particolare, tra luci e ombre, e sulla base soprattutto delle indicazioni contenute nei Programmi per la scuola elementare del 1985, si sono sviluppati laboratori scientifici, matematici, musicali, linguistici, artistici, per i quali sono stati predisposti sia ambienti adeguati, sia (più spesso...

1.1. Il sistema 1.1.1. Un quasi monopolio Windows è una famiglia di ambienti e sistemi operativi (con interfaccia grafica a finestre) prodotti dalla Microsoft Corporation. Il primo sistema Windows risale al novembre 1985, ma già in precedenza (agosto 1981 - giugno 1982) l'azienda di Redmond aveva avuto un grande successo commerciale con il sistema MS-DOS, ottenuto sviluppando il codice del sistema CPM-86 della Seattle Computer Product, soprattutto grazie alla decisione di IBM di inserirlo nei...

Il nostro viaggio alla scoperta del programmi autore termina con l'analisi del software JClic, open source distribuito con licenza GNU GPL, scelto da chi scrive come mezzo privilegiato per la creazione di oggetti di apprendimento, con il solo limite di non supportare in modo efficiente filmati e animazioni. A JClic possono comunque essere affiancati tranquillamente altri prodotti molto validi tra quelli che sono stati descritti in questo lavoro, e cioè: 1) i migliori software per realizzare r...

Nella scuola italiana numerosi corsi, convegni, concorsi e aggiornamenti hanno accompagnato l’introduzione delle LIM e l’informatizzazione della didattica. Sullo sfondo di un orizzonte variegato e a partire proprio dai pregi e dai limiti degli interventi istituzionali, il presente lavoro espone iniziative interessanti come il Divertinglese e Innovascuola, le tecnologie applicate alla disabilità e gli inevitabili interessi commerciali, per poi passare ad analizzare i sistemi operativi gratuiti o a pagamento, le tipologie di software, i problemi di copyright e gli oggetti di apprendimento. Sulla base di queste considerazioni generali, il libro descrive gli strumenti delle LIM, i software universali (per testi, calcoli, grafici, desktop publishing, grafica, audio, animazioni, video) e le loro combinazioni creative, la programmazione ad oggetti (Visual Basic, Delphi, Java, Flash). L’analisi di alcuni generatori di presentazioni e contenuti multimediali (Powerpoint, Impress, Didapages, CamStudio, Scratch) introduce infine l’esposizione delle caratteristiche di ambienti creativi off-line e on-line, di numerosi giochi educativi personalizzabili, di programmi per quiz e test e dei software autore veri e propri (NeoBook, eXeLearning, Hot Potatoes, JClic). In particolare JClic, scelto come lo strumento autore per eccellenza, viene descritto in tutti i suoi aspetti (prodotto, autori, moduli, attività, personalizzazione, distribuzione dei progetti) ed è al centro delle esperienze e dei progetti riportati nell’ultimo capitolo.

Cher Collègue,Cher Serge Abiteboul, La quantité d’informations qui circulent sur Internet est tout simplement vertigineuse. On l’estime bien supérieure en 2012 à toutes les phrases prononcées depuis l’apparition du langage. La gestion des données, des informations et des connaissances qui en résultent soulève des questions essentielles tant sur le plan informatique et scientifique, que sur le plan économique, éthique et sociétal. Sans doute aujourd’hui, les problèmes de stockage et de calcul ...

Mr Administrator,Dear colleagues,Dear friends, Since today is International Women’s Day, I would like to dedicate my inaugural lecture to the woman studying computer science, to the woman studying mathematics or sciences, who is so rare on our campuses. She is sitting in the front row. She may be typing a text message with both thumbs. She may be Michel Serres’ "Thumbelina", offering me a perfect transition to situate the subject of my lecture: I do not know of any living being, cell, tissue,...

Conçus à partir d’un langage formel, la logique du premier ordre, les systèmes de gestion de bases de données relationnels servent de médiateurs entre l’individu et la machine : ils traduisent les données en informations. Avec l’augmentation du volume de données distribuées sur la Toile émerge aujourd’hui une « intelligence collective » façonnée par de grands moteurs de recherches dont le monopole soulève des questions éthiques et politiques. Un des grands défis des années à venir est de développer les technologies qui permettront de trouver, d’évaluer, de valider, de vérifier, de hiérarchiser l’information pour construire la « Toile des connaissances » de demain. Relational database management systems, using as foundations a formal language, first-order logic, serve as mediators between individuals and machines. With the increase in the volume of data disseminated on the Web, a “collective intelligence” is currently emerging, shaped by large search engines whose monopoly raises ethical and political questions. One of the main challenges for the coming years is the development of technologies that will make it possible to find, evaluate, validate, verify and rank information, and thus to build tomorrow’s “Web of knowledge”.

Relational database management systems, using as foundations a formal language, first-order logic, serve as mediators between individuals and machines. With the increase in the volume of data disseminated on the Web, a “collective intelligence” is currently emerging, shaped by large search engines whose monopoly raises ethical and political questions. One of the main challenges for the coming years is the development of technologies that will make it possible to find, evaluate, validate, verify and rank information, and thus to build tomorrow’s “Web of knowledge”. Conçus à partir d’un langage formel, la logique du premier ordre, les systèmes de gestion de bases de données relationnels servent de médiateurs entre l’individu et la machine : ils traduisent les données en informations. Avec l’augmentation du volume de données distribuées sur la Toile émerge aujourd’hui une « intelligence collective » façonnée par de grands moteurs de recherches dont le monopole soulève des questions éthiques et politiques. Un des grands défis des années à venir est de développer les technologies qui permettront de trouver, d’évaluer, de valider, de vérifier, de hiérarchiser l’information pour construire la « Toile des connaissances » de demain.

Dear Colleague, Dear Serge Abiteboul, The amount of information circulating on the Internet is mind-boggling to say the least. In 2012, it is estimated to be far greater than all the sentences spoken since the appearance of language. The management of the data, information and knowledge thus produced raises crucial questions from an information technology and scientific point of view, as well as an economic, ethical and societal perspective. Problems of storage and computation of data have no...

International audience; Conçus à partir d’un langage formel, la logique du premier ordre, les systèmes de gestion de bases de données relationnels servent de médiateurs entre l’individu et la machine : ils traduisent les données en informations. Avec l’augmentation du volume de données distribuées sur la Toile émerge aujourd’hui une « intelligence collective » façonnée par de grands moteurs de recherches dont le monopole soulève des questions éthiques et politiques. Un des grands défis des années à venir est de développer les technologies qui permettront de trouver, d’évaluer, de valider, de vérifier, de hiérarchiser l’information pour construire la « Toile des connaissances » de demain.