e!DAL - a framework to store, share and publish research data

Using the Institutional Repository to Publish Research Data

For open research data to be fully utilised it must be discoverable. Many types of research dataset are impossible to identify by looking at them so metadata is essential. This is the only major issue with using existing Institutional Repositories to preserve and disseminate data. This paper suggests a simple scheme for facilitating discovery and reuse of open scientific data.

Using ACE XML 2.0 to Store and Share Feature, Instance and Class Data for Musical Classification

This paper introduces ACE XML 2.0, a set of file formats that are designed to meet the special representational needs of research in automatic music classification. Such standardized formats are needed to facilitate the sharing and long-term storage of valuable research data. ACE XML 2.0 is designed to represent a broad range of musical information clearly using a flexible, extensible, selfcont...

Do Financial Incentives Increase Doctors’ Willingness to Publish Research? – A Pilot Study of 21 Junior Doctors

The Environmental Data Abstraction Library (edal): a Modular Approach to Processing and Visualising Large Environmental Data

The Environmental Data Abstraction Library provides a modular data management library for bringing new and diverse data-types together for visualisation within numerous software packages, including the ncWMS viewing service, which already has very wide international uptake. The structure of EDAL is presented along with examples of its use to compare satellite, model and in situ data types withi...

Labour's Income Share in an Islamic Economic Framework: A Proposal

In standard discussions (capitalistic economy), business firms and the income distribution property of production factors are dealt with in a manner in which they are independent from each other. and there is no interaction as such between them. Furthermore, no role whatsoever is assumed for externalities. If we accept that there is interaction between production factors, and these 1actors, bec...