Tag Archives: open data
Round three for GigaByte’s vectors of human disease series
Scott Edmunds - December 23, 2024
UPDATE: Thanks to additional support from GBIF the deadline has been extended to 6th June 2025. TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases hosted at the World Health Organization (WHO), GBIF and GigaScience Press have announced a third call for authors to submit Data Release papers on vectors of human disease […]
GigaByte Author Wins A Ben Barres Spotlight Award for Publicly Reviewed Preprints
Scott Edmunds - July 8, 2024
GigaScience Press would like to congratulate Victoire Nsabatien for winning a 2024 Ben Barres Spotlight Award for his two preprints publicly reviewed and published by GigaByte. Prizes are a good way of positively reinforcing and incentivizing good practice in opening up science, and eLife should be commended creating the Ben Barres Spotlight Award for groups […]
The Utility and Danger of AI in Scientific Publishing: Riddles of the Sphinx – GigaScience at WCRI 2024
Chris Armit - June 9, 2024
The 8th World Congress on Research Integrity (WCRI) took place in Athens, Greece from 1st-5th June. GigaScience Press are regular attendees of this conference, and this year our organisation was represented by GigaScience Editor-in-Chief Scott Edmunds, Executive Editor Nicole Nogoy, and Data Scientist Chris Armit. A major theme of the conference was the double-edged sword […]
Publishing Citizen Science Data: Q&A with the Hong Kong Jellyfish Project
Scott Edmunds - May 20, 2024
Today we publish a new Data Release presenting a dataset of jellyfish sightings collected by citizen scientists from 2021 through 2023 within Hong Kong waters. This is the first example where our curation team have worked with a Citizen Science project to share their observations in the GBIF biodiversity database. Here we have a Q&A […]
2023 in review: Gigabyte journal coming of age, and more
Hans Zauner - December 5, 2023
It’s December, the festive season and the end of year are approaching fast – and it’s time for our traditional look back on the past 12 months at GigaScience Press. Once more, we are pleased with the view in the rear mirror. In its 11th year, GigaScience again published exceptional “big data” science (read on […]
RDA20 Plenary: A Decade of Data 2013-2023. Celebrating 10 years of the Research Data Alliance (RDA)
Chris Hunter - March 30, 2023
In one of our conference write-ups, GigaDB provides perspectives and summary of the RDA20 plenary- A decade of data. 5 days of discussions and working groups all about research data.
Second call (and webinar) for GigaByte’s vectors of human disease series
Scott Edmunds - November 6, 2022
TDR, GBIF and GigaScience Press have announced a second call (and webinar) for the GigaByte series publishing new datasets for research on vectors of human diseases.
From Frictionless Data to Interactive Visualisation
Scott Edmunds - September 1, 2022
A guest post from our summer data science intern Raniere Silva from Hong Kong City Uiniversity on his work on Frictionless Data and Interactive Visualisation
GigaByte helping the fight against Vector-Borne diseases with data
Scott Edmunds - June 14, 2022
New GigaByte series of vector-borne diseases data papers just out, including mosquitoes, sandflies, ticks, and kissing bugs, supported by GBIF and the WHO
Vectors of data awards: acknowledging the entire data sharing food web
Scott Edmunds - February 4, 2022
We are pleased to see the 2022 Junior Research Parasite Award go to Jack Pilgrim for his work published last year in GigaScience, so here we highlight the ecosystem of awards acknowledging different parts of the research cycle.