Category: Dataset Digest

DCN-75: "Terrestrial land-cover type richness is positively linked to landscape-level functioning", a GIS/geospatial ecology and evolutionary biology dataset, was submitted to the DCN by Elizabeth Hull on behalf of Dryad, and curated by Melinda Kernik. This dataset was of good quality initially, but Melinda had several recommendations for the data author, including: adding citations for … Continue reading Dataset Digest for the Week of January 6 – 10

DCN-69: "'Data for ‘Robust, accurate, and efficient: quantum embedding using the Huzinaga level-shift projection operator for complex systems'”, a chemistry simulation dataset, was submitted to the DCN by Valerie Collins and curated by Xuying Xin. This was a high quality dataset, and Xuying's only recommendations were to make small changes to the documentation and to … Continue reading Dataset Digest for the Week of December 16 – 20

DCN-66: "Geometries for Minnesota Database 2019", a chemistry database, was submitted to the DCN by Valerie Collins and curated by Xuying Xin. This was a high quality dataset. Xuying's recommendations included converting files to a more accessible format, updating the dataset's documentation to include variable definitions and reconciling or explaining the differences in file names … Continue reading Dataset Digest for the Week of December 9 – 13

DCN-41: “Data from: Eulerian videography technology improves classification of sleep architecture in primates”, an ecology video dataset, was submitted to the DCN by Erin Clary and curated by Jennifer Darragh. This was a high quality dataset and Jen's only recommendation was that the author consider transforming to a more preservation-friendly format. The author did not follow … Continue reading Dataset Digest for the Week of December 2 – 6

DCN-35: SNP Genotyping Data for the Barley Population in "Registration of the S2MET Barley Mapping Population for Multi-Environment Genomewide Selection", a crop sciences code and genomics dataset, was submitted to the DCN by Valerie Collins and curated by Erin Clary. Although this was a good quality dataset, Erin had significant recommendations related to expanding documentation, … Continue reading Dataset Digest for the Week of November 18 – 22

DCN-49: Silver-ableC: a Silver extension for writing ableC specifications, a computer sciences code dataset, was submitted to the DCN by Wanda Marsolek and curated by Debra Fagan. Wanda submitted this dataset looking for both technical and disciplinary expertise, and Debra was a perfect match! Debra's suggestions included creating additional documentation in the form of a … Continue reading Dataset Digest for the Week of November 11 – 15

DCN-59: Verasonics Processing Test Data, a biomedical engineering MATLAB dataset, was submitted to the DCN by Sophia Lafferty-Hess and curated by Susan Borda. Sophia submitted this dataset looking for technical and disciplinary expertise, and Susan was the best fit! Susan reported that this was a good quality dataset, and her only recommendation was that the … Continue reading Dataset Digest for the Week of October 28 – November 1

DCN-39: "Data repository for: In vitro evolution of herpes simplex virus 1(HSV-1)", a biochemistry genomic dataset, was submitted to the DCN by Seth Erickson and curated by Sarah Wright. Seth submitted this dataset to the DCN for technical expertise and Sarah was the best fit. Sarah reported that this was a good-quality dataset and her … Continue reading Dataset Digest for the Week of October 14 – 18

DCN-57: “Data to Accompany the ‘Addressing Disparities in Physician Access to Information in Support of Evidence-based Practice’ Study”, a library and information science tabular dataset, was submitted to the DCN by Valerie Collins and curated for the DCN by Katie Wissel. Valerie submitted this dataset to the DCN for additional curation and review by a … Continue reading Dataset Digest for the Week of October 7 – 11

DCN-34: Seismograms of earthquake pairs in the injection experiment, a tabular earth sciences dataset, was submitted to the DCN by Rachel Woodbrook and curated by Wendy Kozlowski. Wendy's recommendations for this dataset focused primarily on improving documentation, and due to Wendy's expertise major curation actions were taken (files updated/added, metadata edited/added). For more information about … Continue reading Dataset Digest for the Week of September 23 – 27