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Finding Data . Big Data, Little Data: Having it All October 3, 2013 Denise Bennett, Marston Science Library . Looking for others’ datasets?. * To reuse * To serve as model for your data. http://library.ufl.edu/datamgmt. Choose “idea” from the data life cycle. Link to Datasets guide.
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Finding Data Big Data, Little Data: Having it All October 3, 2013 Denise Bennett, Marston Science Library
Looking for others’ datasets? * To reuse * To serve as model for your data
Datasets guide What do you mean by “data”?
Multidisciplinary repositories Let’s start with Dryad
Dryad.org – search results Search for “size,” get 966 datasets
Dryad.org – search results See major subjects of resulting datasets See journals where articles were published
Dryad entry See individual files; 17 for this project
Dryad entry: citation See how to cite the article and the data package
Back to Multidisciplinary repositories Let’s look at Databib
Repository example: Databib 603 data repositories total in Databib.
Databib: search results A search for “climatology” shows 53 groups
Databib entry See info about the group and a link to its website
Databib leads to website Data Access links Recent Data Activities noted
back on the Datasets guide Choose any subject category to see discipline-specific repositories
Citing datasets See examples and recommended practices
back to Datasets home Scroll down for Tips & Tricks
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