What do librarians want from data management workshops?

As always Sam Searle has interesting things to say...

http://www.samsearle.net/2014/05/what-do-librarians-want-from-data.html

Metrics – schmetrics…what to believe?

Altmetrics is not the only critique of our obsession with citation metrics -  a very readable set of critical articles are now available in the most recent issue of Research Trends.

http://www.researchtrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Research_Trends_Issue_37.pdf

Using SpatiaLite (for Spatical SQL) - a fast and simple practical how-to for absolute beginners

Following this tutorial will approximately take about an hour or two of your precious time:
that's not a too much demanding task, and you are not required to perform any exceptional effort. 

SpatiaLite is absolutely free (in both meanings: it's free as free beer, and it's free as free speech): so you can get a quick glance at latest state-of-the-art Spatial SQL technologies in the easiest and simplest way. 
And once you've got your own opinion on the basis of your direct first-hand experience, you can then decide by yourself if Spatial SQL can be useful (one way or the other) for your daily activities. 

http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite-2.4.0-4/spatialite-cookbook/

RDA-WDS Publishing Data IG Webinar for STM Members

The RDA-WDS Publishing Data IG organized a first webinar primarily for members of STM and their colleagues. The presentations covered how publishers, data centres and research institutes are working together on Data Publishing, from establishing better workflows, to business models and including the design for an infrastructure to link data and publications. The video and audio recording, as well as the presentations are available here. 

Please circulate and we welcome your feedback as we are planning to target the other stakeholders with similar webinars.