The (US) government’s top IT official said all agencies have submitted their lists of high-value assets, which now include data.

Taken from: https://www.nextgov.com/analytics-data/2018/08/federal-cio-100-percent-agencies-classify-data-asset/150416/

In an age where everything is being digitized, bits of data are more often worth more than the hardware it is housed within. Even advanced, expensive networks and systems only exist to hold highly valuable data.

The federal government has come to understand this and is officially classifying and tracking data as an asset separate from others, according to federal Chief Information Officer Suzette Kent.

As agencies tick through the list of deliverables in the President’s Management Agenda, each has had to create an inventory of high-value assets. All of the agencies have completed that work, and the lists now include data, rather than just hardware and applications,... Continue

JISC Research Data Management Toolkit released

JISC has released their new Research Data Management Toolkit.

"This toolkit aims to support you by signposting resources from a wide range of websites and organisations, sorted by topic and audience. Follow your pathway below or browse the website using the research data lifecycle chart."

O'Reilly Ideas blog: Doing good data science

The first in a new series of posts on data ethics at O'Reilly Ideas is an easy-to-read taste of the issues, including how data science relates to corporate culture:

https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/doing-good-data-science

“Data scientists, data engineers, AI and ML developers, and other data professionals need to live ethical values, not just talk about them.”

"FAIR in practice" - Jisc report now available

To provide a better understanding of current practice with regard to the use of FAIR principles in the UK and the potential these have to enhance research operations and output, Jisc assigned work to Robert Allen and David Hartland of Hapsis Innovation Ltd. They worked in close collaboration with esteemed experts in the UK such as Simon Coles, Susanna Sansone and Melissa Terras and investigated practices and views in various research disciplines.

The results have now been published in the report ‘FAIR in practice - Jisc report on the Findable Accessible Interoperable and Reuseable Data Principles’, that can be found using DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1245567

A blog on the report, titled ‘Open science is all very well but how do you make it FAIR in practice?’ by Rachel Bruce and Bas Cordewener, is available here.