Presentations

Sharing Sensitive Data with Confidence: The DataTags System, at Harvard University, Monday, December 14, 2015:

Presented by Mercè Crosas, Michael Bar-Sinai and Latanya Sweeney.

Society generates data on a scale previously unimagined. Wide sharing of these data promises to improve important aspects of life such as health and education, by increasing their quality and lowering their cost. However, these same data often include sensitive information about people that could cause serious harms if shared widely. A multitude of regulations, laws and best practices protect data that contain sensitive personal information.

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Addressing the New Challenges in Data Sharing: Large-Scale Data and Sensitive Data, at NISO webinar, Wednesday, December 9, 2015:

niso-largedatasets-crosas.pdf

Presented by Mercè Crosas for a NISO webinar on Emerging Data Types: Large Data Sets.

Dataverse on the MOC Thursday, November 19, 2015:

dataverseonmoc-crosas.pdf

Presented by Mercè Crosas at the Massachusetts Open Cloud Workshop:

http://www.bu.edu/hic/2015/11/12/nov-19-2015-moc-annual-workshop-hosted-by-the-hariri-institute-for-computing-2/

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You Are Not Your User: Dispelling Usability Myths with Harvard's Dataverse, at JavaOne, San Francisco, California, Thursday, October 29, 2015:

you_are_not_your_user-_dispelling_usability_myths_with_harvards_dataverse.pdf

Presented by: Gustavo Durand and Elizabeth Quigley

All of us have experience in developing Java applications, but how many of us know how best to make them usable? UX is a team effort, not just one person’s role. This presentation goes over some common UX myths and how a developer and a UXer can work together to improve the UX of an application. Reviewing examples from the development effort of Harvard’s Dataverse Project, it shows how this project has dispelled some of these myths and solved...

The Importance of APIs in RDM, at DLF Forum, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Tuesday, October 27, 2015:

quigleyvalendlf_apis.pdf

Presented by: Dan Valen (figshare) and Elizabeth Quigley (Dataverse)

Sharing Your Data with Dataverse, at DLF Forum, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Monday, October 26, 2015:

dlfdataverse_quigley.pdf

Presented by: Elizabeth Quigley

The Dataverse Project started in 2006 at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science as an open source software application to share, cite and archive data. From its beginnings, Dataverse has provided a robust infrastructure for data stewards to host and archive data, while offering researchers an easy way to share and get credit for their data. The Dataverse project, started as a repository for social sciences data, has now expanded to benefit a wide range of disciplines and scientific domains (astronomy, life...

Data Publishing, at Harvard Research Access and Innovation Symposium, Monday, October 26, 2015:

hms-datapublishing-crosas-pdf.pdf

Talk by Mercè Crosas at the Harvard Research Data Access and Innovation Symposium:

http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/researchdataaccessandinnovationsymposium

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