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How to find data at the Danish National Archives [Webinar recording]
<p>The Danish National Archives have launched Digidata (https://digidata.rigsarkivet.dk/) which makes it easier for researchers and students to find and gain access to our large collection of research data (approx. 3000 datasets, primarily from surveys) and administrative data (approx. 6000 datasets, e.g. registers such as the Conscription Register and the Taxpayer Register).</p> <p>In the webinar, the presenter showed show how you could use Digidata platform to search for a dataset.</p> <p>Note: Portal presented at the event is in the Danish language.</p> <p>The video is available on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsKaT3_TDSM">CESSDA Training YouTube channel.</a></p>
New Data Types in Data Management and Archiving [Webinar recording]
<p>New Data Types in Data Management and Archiving workshop focused on the management, archiving and access to new types of data (NDTs), i.e. administrative, transactional and social media data. The program consisted of four presentations tackling various issues related to handling the NDTs in data repositories and sharing these data in the community of social researchers. Martin Vávra (CSDA) was speaking about current capacities among CESSDA SPs for handling NDTs, Brian Kleiner (FORS) was talking about the coordinated approach to handling NDTs CESSDA SPs. Yevhen Voronin (GESIS) gave a presentation about social media data sharing in social research and Pascal Jurgens (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) was speaking about Social Science in the Embattled Digital Age: Adversarial Creation, Use and Sharing of New Data Types. The speakers’ presentations were followed by the panel discussion, where audience members were encouraged to participate and brought in their own experiences of archivists, data managers and researchers. The event was a part of the CESSDA training activities.</p> <p>The video is available on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j13GsqwDO2Q">CESSDA Training YouTube channel.</a></p>
Journal and Data Archive Collaboration Forum [online event recording]
<p>The availability of research data underlying articles published in journals is becoming a common practice in scientific communication. The European Commission and other funders of scientific research have set high expectations for scientists towards openness and availability of scientific work and results. Scientific publishers, through journals and scholarly publications are the main point of realising open science in practice.<br> <br> This event was part of the continuous Journals Outreach initiative (<a href="https://www.cessda.eu/Training/Journals-outreach">https://www.cessda.eu/Training/Journals-outreach</a>), bringing together CESSDA service providers (SPs) with Social Science & Humanities Journals. <strong>Its target audiences were publishers, editors, researchers, and CESSDA Service providers. </strong>The event was also an opportunity for publishers/journals to highlight new initiatives in research data services linked to scientific publications.<br> <br> The video is available on<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCKoyzLifkg"> the CESSDA Training YouTube channel</a>.</p>
Treatment of American National Archives Records of World War II Prisoners of War (0326).
<p>NARA PoW Data W.D. A.G.O. FORM NO. 0326.</p> <p>This deposit contains a dataset relating to persons interned between December 7, 1941 and November 19, 1946, which has been enhanced to make it more accessible to scientists. It is based on information from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which is unrestricted and available at <a href="https://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-description.jsp?s=644&popup=Y">https://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-description.jsp?s=644&popup=Y</a>, and informs this summary. The NARA 'series' is part of <em>Record Group 389: Records of the Office of the Provost Marshal General</em>. It identifies 79 'places of capture' globally "Using copies of reports from the International Committee of the Red Cross ...". The Scope & Content Note states:</p> <p><em>"This series has information about U.S. military officers and soldiers and U.S. and some Allied civilians who were prisoners of war and internees. The record for each prisoner provides serial number, personal name, branch of service or civilian status, grade, date reported, race, state of residence, type of organization, parent unit number and type, place of capture (theater of war), source of report, status, detaining power, and prisoner of war or civilian internee camp site. Records of prisoners of the Japanese who died also document whether the prisoner was on a Japanese ship that sank or if he or she died during transport from the Philippine Islands to Japan. There are no records for some prisoners of war whose names appear in the lists or cables transmitted to the Office of the Provost Marshal General by the International Committee of the Red Cross."</em></p> <p>The U.S. War Department used punched cards to manage this information, although "The punch card records were transferred to NARA with virtually no agency documentation." According to the Custodial History Note:</p> <p><em>"The U.S. Army transferred punch card records of World War II prisoners of war (POWs) to NARA as a unique series in its 1959 transfer of all of the U.S. Army's Departmental Archives. In 1978 the Veterans Administration borrowed most of the punch card records of repatriated U.S. military personnel for a study of Repatriated U.S. Military Prisoners of War, migrated the data on almost all of the borrowed cards to an electronic format and returned the punch cards and two electronic records data files to NARA. In 1995 NARA migrated the data from almost all of the remaining punch card records to an electronic format and has subsequently preserved all of the records in a single data file."</em></p> <p>It is evident that the organization of this data file assumes access to other information, also accessible in CSV files in the series, in order to interpret detailed information, such as branch of service, grade, parent unit number and detaining power. For example, records appear in the following format:</p> <pre><code class="language-bash">O&745255ABDALLAH EDWARD A 2 LT G1AC 200803413223003620O7222094171035 32214872ABDALLAH JOSEPH T CPL 61INF10230241231100157069802075181087 36336867ABDAY JOSEPH C PVT 81INF10170231611100168069516075181004 </code></pre> <p>constituting a serial number, then a name, then a textual code for rank; followed by a string, (starting G1AC on the first line) which encodes the remaining information. For example, the first digit (G) can be looked up in cl_1279.csv to decode ‘2nd lieutenant’, corroborating in this case the appearance of '2 LT. 'AC' indicates 'armofservicecode: AIR CORPS', but less obviously, 'detainingpower: Germany'; 'race: White' and 'theater: European Theater: Germany'. This single line is the entirety of the information provided per person instance by the NARA series. Users of this potentially valuable resource must develop automation in order to be able to search and employ it effectively; no such tools or specification from which software might be developed immediately is provided.</p> <p>Significantly, this task is hampered by evidence of corruption of the some of the information, which may be due solely to the digitization process mentioned above being applied to the paper records, but possibly with subsequent contribution of fixity effects. NARA documentation does not refer to data integrity issues and, especially since the dataset which NARA provides is large, it may only be during development of automation to employ the series that such issues are discovered. Examples of problems include substitution of characters, such as 'O' replacing '0' and vice-versa; '}' replacing '3' and '&' replacing '8', or less obviously 'L' mis-recognized as '-' and 'II' replacing 'H'.</p> <pre><code class="language-bash">12138003 AREY GERALD J S SG 41AC 2002064123S55}340069802055181033</code></pre> <p>Ideally, access to high resolution scans of the paper documents could be used to address these issues, or external documents. However, checking for completeness of each of the components of a person record enables detection of compromised entries and, where character substitution affects decoding of key information, other contextual information is often available to validate decoding such strings with these characters re-substituted. The larger percentage of strings which already decode plausibly without intervention do not contain incidences of such characters (so there is strong evidence that they are invalid in particular positions.</p> <p>Unfortunately, there is a proportion of digital records with more severe corruption which cannot be addressed without access to scanned imagery of the paper records, for example:</p> <pre><code class="language-bash">O&557875ANDREW THOMAS A 2 LT G1AC 2011094115 70140 6881276AFTEWICZ EDWARD L PVT 81INF10150231321100135069508065181004 6 APLIN -OR-& - 3 1INF102 1 1 0 1 1</code></pre> <p>As of the initial date of this deposit is anticipated that such access will be possible to support further work on this series.</p> <p>The dataset in this deposit does not contain records for which decoding is compromised to the extent that information to populate a basic person schema is incomplete. However, although 36,791 of the 143,374 person records in the NARA series were found to be compromised in some way, 19,624 of those have been substantially decoded and/or repaired and further work is being undertaken to both improve decoding of the 126,207 available here and to retrieve others among the 17,167 which are currently inaccessible.</p> <p>This dataset has been enhanced to present the original NARA 'single data file' as a JSON resource which is more accessible for search and analysis, since each record is document-oriented (containing labels and values for each field, together with provenance information) for example:</p> <pre><code class="language-json">{ "$schema": "https://schemata.hasdai.org/historic-persons/historic-person-entry-v0.0.2.json", "location": [ { "association": "military service", "transcription": "European Theater: Germany" }, { "association": "interred", "transcription": "Stalag 2D Stargard Pomerania, Prussia 53-15" } ], "name": { "familyname": "AARON", "givenname": "JACK", "rank": "SGT", "transcription": "AARON JACK" }, "set": { "id": "https://persons.freizo.org/export/pow/1.0.0", "partof": "10.5281/zenodo.3565392", "title": "WDAGO-0326" }, "source": { "type": "data file" } },</code></pre> <p>The schema employed here serves a specific purpose, in addition to on-going work identifying and correcting errors in the NARA data: it supports work to discover other instances of persons appearing in this NARA series 0326, which also appear in external documentation. For example, in a separate collaborative project with Europa Institute at the University of Basel, a benchmark dataset has been produced based on listings of foreign residents in the Asian Directories and Chronicles, which forms a deposit at <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2580997">10.5281/zenodo.2580997</a> and employs a compatible schema for the purpose of efficient comparison with this and other datasets. Other schemata could be employed for different purposes—leading to alternate datasets, all derived from series 0326. The full extent of information currently decoded from NARA series 0326 is presented at <a href="https://pow.freizo.org/">https://pow.freizo.org/</a> which provides search facilities by person name, plus interactive filters for person rank, service and theater of conflict.</p>
Discover the Data Archiving Guide (DAG) - a training event for new(ish) staff members [Workshop recording]
<p>The CESSDA Data Archiving Guide (https://dag.cessda.eu/) is a new resource developed by CESSDA and is designed to provide employees at data archives and repositories with an understanding of the work a data archive performs. The information in the DAG was collected by experts from CESSDA social science data archives reflecting the procedures and policies at their local archives. While the context of these archives varies — in size, the underlying technical architecture or in the specific services provided to researchers — the DAG focuses on common ground and is a useful tool for professionals new to data archiving or those who are knowledgeable in one domain and now seek to broaden their expertise.<br> <br> The full-day workshop was targeted mainly for new employees in data archives; people generally interested in the DAG were welcome as well.<br> <br> This workshop focused specifically on the Chapters Pre-Ingest, Ingest and FAIR with an additional excursion into the glossary to deepen participant's knowledge in a playful way.</p> <p>The video is also available on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzPzVK5UZKE">CESSDA Training YouTube Channel</a>.</p>
"It was recorded on Sunday, morning of the 28th of September as some of the slower runners of the Berlin Marathon made it past Torstrasse near my flat. Iwas out to buy some bread for breakfast, but Iusually bring a camera and my Edirol R-1 recorder whenever Igo out. Since Iwas freshly returned to Berlin Iguess Iwas sensitive to the more antiquated sounds which still survive there, like that of the organ grinder. Iam generally interested in how human beings are replacing the presence of Nature with an artificial environment made entirely by human hands (and thus far more understandable, it is hoped). In this new Human Nature, the sounds of Nature are also Human made. Iwrite about these things, but Ialso use the sounds in my videos and my interactive and generative media work, so generally Iam wandering around building up my archive of media documents for use as material in future works." [Baruch/ gottlieb]17 in Collecting Sounds. Online Sharing of Field Recordings as Cultural Practice
"It was recorded on Sunday, morning of the 28th of September as some of the slower runners of the Berlin Marathon made it past Torstrasse near my flat. Iwas out to buy some bread for breakfast, but Iusually bring a camera and my Edirol R-1 recorder whenever Igo out. Since Iwas freshly returned to Berlin Iguess Iwas sensitive to the more antiquated sounds which still survive there, like that of the organ grinder. Iam generally interested in how human beings are replacing the presence of Nature with an artificial environment made entirely by human hands (and thus far more understandable, it is hoped). In this new Human Nature, the sounds of Nature are also Human made. Iwrite about these things, but Ialso use the sounds in my videos and my interactive and generative media work, so generally Iam wandering around building up my archive of media documents for use as material in future works." [Baruch/ gottlieb]17
Archival records of fire history, 1910-1977, central western Cascades, Oregon
Historical wild fire records for the central western Cascades of Oregon are summarized here for the period from 1910 to 1977. Data records are obtained and summarized from historical statistical reports that were generated by the U.S. Forest Service and exist in various forms including fire maps, summary tables, and individual fire reports. The location, cause of the fire, its size class, and the source of information regarding each fire are included.
Bionomia: a versioned archive of associations between people and the biodiversity data records they worked on. hash://sha256/4b192ed16cfe8577c2e275ada76bfdc19fe5a5381547139c8f8f4079e704b6f2 hash://md5/a69075f7a9a19f069c6d0c6d8f312259
<p>Biodiversity data describe nature in digital form. Bionomia [1] helps to associate the people behind the creation of biodiversity data and the records they worked on. Bionomia is updated constantly, and this publication provides a versioned snapshots of Bionomia data products, such as:</p> <p>https://bionomia.net/data/bionomia-public-profiles.csv</p> <p>and </p> <p>https://bionomia.net/data/bionomia-public-claims.csv.gz</p> <p>The data downloads are versioned using Preston [2], a biodiversity data tracker, by running the following command:</p> <pre><code class="language-bash">preston track\ https://bionomia.net/data/bionomia-public-claims.csv.gz\ https://bionomia.net/data/bionomia-public-profiles.csv</code></pre> <p>The history of this publication is:</p> <pre><code><hash://sha256/4b192ed16cfe8577c2e275ada76bfdc19fe5a5381547139c8f8f4079e704b6f2> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://sha256/22afc7a3e4e1c3bc289ce39573463331d3b594a11512c1233e39436973aea974> . <urn:uuid:0659a54f-b713-4f86-a917-5be166a14110> <http://purl.org/pav/hasVersion> <hash://sha256/22afc7a3e4e1c3bc289ce39573463331d3b594a11512c1233e39436973aea974> .</code></pre> <p>as obtained via </p> <pre><code class="language-bash">preston history\ --remote https://zenodo.org/record/7810635/files,https://linker.bio\ --anchor hash://sha256/4b192ed16cfe8577c2e275ada76bfdc19fe5a5381547139c8f8f4079e704b6f2</code></pre> <p>The aliases include are </p> <pre><code><https://bionomia.net/data/bionomia-public-claims.csv.gz> <http://purl.org/pav/hasVersion> <hash://sha256/9d345ffa98f2556aa77609fa3604e61efbd8e53c067153038a65c8b4d3705ac1> <urn:uuid:05efc676-b344-45f8-a109-de4df5b85fd2> . <https://bionomia.net/data/bionomia-public-profiles.csv> <http://purl.org/pav/hasVersion> <hash://sha256/80265c7f885a261396df909163ad8df6bc32246b55350a8bc65c20a05b30a04c> <urn:uuid:b3437df4-7dd5-44b3-a154-2e06320ade2a> . <https://bionomia.net/data/bionomia-public-claims.csv.gz> <http://purl.org/pav/hasVersion> <hash://sha256/cca558f470657a3c3fb99be70907d5705e7b5c20d12412073307fc9146e94394> <urn:uuid:fa6c6542-57bc-405a-b518-01c225f474b1> . <https://bionomia.net/data/bionomia-public-profiles.csv> <http://purl.org/pav/hasVersion> <hash://sha256/80265c7f885a261396df909163ad8df6bc32246b55350a8bc65c20a05b30a04c> <urn:uuid:36c4c1ff-3baf-4250-8c1f-fbfb2f33dfaf> .</code></pre> <p>as obtained via</p> <pre><code class="language-bash">preston alias\ --remote https://zenodo.org/record/7810635/files,https://linker.bio\ --anchor hash://sha256/4b192ed16cfe8577c2e275ada76bfdc19fe5a5381547139c8f8f4079e704b6f2</code></pre> <p>The first 5 lines of the tracked content are:</p> <pre><code>Subject,Predicate,Object https://gbif.org/occurrence/1839364365,http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/iri/identifiedBy,https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9008-0611 https://gbif.org/occurrence/657804907,http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/iri/identifiedBy,https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9008-0611 https://gbif.org/occurrence/657804727,http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/iri/identifiedBy,https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9008-0611 https://gbif.org/occurrence/657804529,http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/iri/identifiedBy,https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9008-0611</code></pre> <p>as obtained via:</p> <pre><code class="language-bash">preston cat\ --remote https://zenodo.org/record/7810635/files,https://linker.bio\ --anchor hash://sha256/4b192ed16cfe8577c2e275ada76bfdc19fe5a5381547139c8f8f4079e704b6f2\ https://bionomia.net/data/bionomia-public-claims.csv.gz\ | gunzip\ | head -n5 </code></pre> <p> </p> <p>and </p> <pre><code>Family,Given,Particle,OtherNames,Country,Keywords,wikidata,ORCID,URL Page,Roderic,,R. D. M. Page|Roderic D. M. Page|Rod Page,United Kingdom,"",,0000-0002-7101-9767,https://bionomia.net/0000-0002-7101-9767 Chatzimanolis,Stylianos,,S. Chatzimanolis|Stelios Chatzimanolis|Stelianos Chatzimanolis,United States,Taxonomist,,0000-0001-9008-0611,https://bionomia.net/0000-0001-9008-0611 Bachman,Steven,,Steven P Bachman|Steven Philip Bachman|Steve Bachman,United Kingdom,Red List|Conservation|Plants|Plantae|GIS|English,,0000-0003-1085-6075,https://bionomia.net/0000-0003-1085-6075 Robbins,Tod,,Todd Robbins,"",libraries|archives|Mormon studies|linked data|digital humanities|digital asset management,,0000-0002-6752-9721,https://bionomia.net/0000-0002-6752-9721</code></pre> <p>obtained via </p> <pre><code class="language-bash">preston cat\ --remote https://zenodo.org/record/7810635/files,https://linker.bio\ --anchor hash://sha256/4b192ed16cfe8577c2e275ada76bfdc19fe5a5381547139c8f8f4079e704b6f2\ https://bionomia.net/data/bionomia-public-profiles.csv\ | head -n5</code></pre> <p> </p> <p>This data publication was created in part in context of "Bee-hind the Scenes: Documenting Digital Traces of Prominent Natural History Bee Specimens" (see https://beehind.org), and is used together with an exhaustive list of record identifiers and associated institution, collection and catalog information [3].</p> <p><strong>References</strong></p> <p>[1] Shorthouse DP (2020) Slinging With Four Giants on a Quest to Credit Natural Historians for our Museums and Collections. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 4: e59167. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.4.59167">https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.4.59167</a></p> <p>[2] MJ Elliott, JH Poelen, JAB Fortes (2020). Toward Reliable Biodiversity Dataset References. Ecological Informatics. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2020.101132">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2020.101132</a></p> <p>[3] Poelen, Jorrit. (2023). Global Biodiversity Informatics Facility (GBIF): an exhaustive list of gbif record ids, dataset keys, and their associated Occurrence IDs, Institution Code, Collection Codes and Catalog Numbers. hash://sha256/ea88f03a7bfd1ba853fdbea3203d54ab81ac3cdc8e8da7c96bbbba9c4b05d933 hash://md5/c49fe34785354847b37ea4509261e130 (0.1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7789866</p> <p> </p>
Data from: An archive of longitudinal recordings of the vocalizations of adult Gombe chimpanzees
Studies of chimpanzee vocal communication provide valuable insights into the evolution of communication in complex societies, and also comparative data for understanding the evolution of human language. One particularly valuable dataset of recordings from free-living chimpanzees was collected by Frans X. Plooij and the late Hetty van de Rijt-Plooij at Gombe National Park, Tanzania (1971–73). These audio specimens, which have not yet been analysed, total over 10 h on 28 tapes, including 7 tapes focusing on adult individuals with a total of 605 recordings. In 2014 the first part of that collection of audio specimens covering the vocalizations of the immature Gombe chimpanzees was made available. The data package described here covers the vocalizations of the adult chimpanzees. We expect these recordings will prove useful for studies on topics including referential signalling and the emergence of dialects. The digitized sound recordings were stored in the Macaulay Library and the Dryad Repository. In addition, the original notes on the contexts of the calls were translated and transcribed from Dutch into English.
Data from: An archive of longitudinal recordings of the vocalizations of adult Gombe chimpanzees
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MGN V RDRS COMPRESSED BASIC IMAGE DATA RECORD CD ARCHIVE
This data set contains the Magellan C-BIDR (Compressed Resolution Basic Image Data Record) archive products. It also contains documentation files which describe the C-BIDRs. Each C-BIDR data directory contains the compressed image swaths obtained from one orbit and the ancillary files necessary to understand the data. The C-BIDR products archived on this volume are the exact products released by the Magellan Project, with additional PDS labels, swath index files, and documentation added for the convenience of the user.
MARINER 10 IMAGING ARCHIVE EXPERIMENT DATA RECORD
This series of fifteen CDs was produced by JPL's Science Digital Data Preservation Task (SDDPT) by migrating the original Mariner Ten image EDRs from old, deteriorating
MGN V RDRS COMPRESSED BASIC IMAGE DATA RECORD CD ARCHIVE
This data set contains the Magellan C-BIDR (Compressed Resolution Basic Image Data Record) archive products. It also contains documentation files which describe the C-BIDRs. Each C-BIDR data directory contains the compressed image swaths obtained from one orbit and the ancillary files necessary to understand the data. The C-BIDR products archived on this volume are the exact products released by the Magellan Project, with additional PDS labels, swath index files, and documentation added for the convenience of the user.
MARINER 10 IMAGING ARCHIVE EXPERIMENT DATA RECORD
This series of fifteen CDs was produced by JPL's Science Digital Data Preservation Task (SDDPT) by migrating the original Mariner Ten image EDRs from old, deteriorating
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Allen Brain Atlas
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Annotated Behaviour and Observability Dataset (ABODe)
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DANDI Archive for NWB datasets
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International Brain Laboratory public data
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OpenNeuro
OpenNeuro is a free, open platform for sharing neuroimaging datasets, with public search, dataset pages, and download paths for web, S3, DataLad, and the OpenNeuro CLI.