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  1. MT @asist_org #RDAP12 reports in the latest ASIS&T Bulletin, PDFs online: asist.org/bulletin.html
  2. @TAC_NISO @dancohen if editing is alt metrics and algo modding, then just let machines do it? What is the human-based work?
  3. #fedora noob trial-by-fire F16->F17 via preupgrade. fedoraforums did help. #diy-sysadmin
  4. @stoweboyd @dhinchcliffe @sagenet 30-yr old socio-tech ideas (Trist et al.) still have legs - but we knew that even then. #sociotech
  5. @datachick ha ha ha, well whatever works. I was thinking more that docs w/ VC are used, reused, cited, etc.; those w/o not so much.
  6. @datachick re version control behavior: reward the behavior you want; ignore the behavior you don't want #dogtraining101
  7. @kaythaney @jakeporway Will you be arresting undocumented data items? Data elements are req'd to carry ID -- it's the law!
  8. Require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research. wh.gov/6TH
  9. @juansequeda @jahendler what kind of training (or content) in "data" or "science" do you see as needed?