A growing number of funding agencies and international scholarly organizations are requesting that research data be made more openly available to help validate and advance scientific research. Thus, this is an opportune moment for research data repositories to partner with journal editors and publishers in order to simplify and improve data curation and publishing practices. One practical examp...

We present an interactive tool that visualizes data on awareness of several health conditions in the Middle East. The underlying data is obtained via Facebook’s Marketing API and includes rich demographic details. We discuss how this tool may be useful for planning more targeted public health campaigns and for monitoring campaign effectiveness. Application URL: http://scdev5.qcri.org/sha/

A number of German virtual subject libraries cooperate to establish “The German Virtual Library.” To enable cross-searching and crossbrowsing over their distributed resources, they decided to develop a metadata application profile, based on the DCMES. The answers to a questionnaire were evaluated to figure out which elements were supported by the individual partners. This paper describes the ap...

Data is increasingly being purchased online in data markets and REST APIs have emerged as a favored method to acquire such data. Typically, sellers charge buyers based on how much data they purchase. In many scenarios, buyers need to make repeated calls to the seller’s API. The challenge is then for buyers to keep track of the data they purchase and avoid purchasing the same data twice. In this...

The GCommS (Group Communication Support for Distributed Communication Systems) project at Lancaster University is concerned with the support of group communication, especially for applications employing multimedia information. In this paper we introduce a study on requirements of multimedia group applications. Group support in existing systems is discussed. Examples to illustrate group applicat...