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Jonathan Petters

Webinar May 20th 10AM ET/3PM GMT – Does curation actually increase data reuse?
Hi all, Forwarding a webinar of potential interest! “Does Curation Matter? A Statistical Analysis of Mediated versus Non-Mediated Data Use“ See below for the description and registration link. -Jon —————- Jonathan Petters Associate Director, Data Management and Curation Services Data Services, University Libraries Associate Professor he/his/him [email protected] 540-232-8682 https://lib.vt.edu/research-teaching/data-services.html ORCID ———- Forwarded message ——— From: […]
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Jonathan Petters
Date Modified: May 12, 2026
Webinar May 20th 10AM ET/3PM GMT – Does curation actually increase data reuse?
Hi all, Forwarding a webinar of potential interest! “Does Curation Matter? A Statistical Analysis of Mediated versus Non-Mediated Data Use“ See below for the description and registration link. -Jon —————- Jonathan Petters Associate Director, Data Management and Curation Services Data Services, University Libraries Associate Professor he/his/him [email protected] 540-232-8682 https://lib.vt.edu/research-teaching/data-services.html ORCID ———- Forwarded message ——— From: […]
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Jonathan Petters
Date Modified: May 12, 2026
JOB – Evidence Synthesis Information Scientist, Virginia Tech University Libraries
Hi all, passing along this job opportunity for a colleague! See below. -Jon The University Libraries at Virginia Tech is seeking an Evidence Synthesis Information Scientist to join our team. The successful candidate will be an ambassador for high-quality evidence synthesis at Virginia Tech; as an expert in search techniques and synthesis methods such as […]
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Jonathan Petters
Date Modified: March 17, 2025
Batch masking/blurring drone imagery
Hi all, I have a question about approaches to masking drone imagery, specifically around natural disasters like current flooding troubles in the Southern Appalachian US. A professor here at Virginia Tech has taken a lot of drone imagery of disaster areas. In this imagery are included pictures of personal and private property, including the insides […]
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Jonathan Petters
Date Modified: October 2, 2024
Applications for managing geophysical specimen data?
Hi all,   Our Virginia Tech Geosciences folks are looking for database applications for managing digital records of their physical geological/paleontological specimens.   We had some suggestions of physical archival software applications that might do the job (e.g. ArchiveSpace, PastPerfect, Collective Access). However, they were wondering if there are applications specifically designed for managing geophysical […]
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Jonathan Petters
Date Modified: September 6, 2023
VP18 Presentations now available – follow-up session on Thursday November 10th
Thank you very much to everyone who joined the Certification of Digital Repositories IG’s breakout session “TRUST Principles and challenges on implementation”  at the recent RDA VP18. We have uploaded the notes, the slides, and all pre-recorded video presentations to our RDA IG file repository at https://www.rd-alliance.org/wdsrda-certification-digital-repositories-ig-presentations-vp18.   The recording of this session is now […]
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Jonathan Petters
Date Modified: November 8, 2021
co-chairing RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories IG
Hi all, I co-chair the RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories IG, and we’re looking for an additional co-chair (or maybe two) to help us with the interest group’s activities. I thought this could be an excellent opportunity for an early career person who has interest (and some experience even) in repository certification. Meet and work […]
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Jonathan Petters
Date Modified: June 11, 2021
VP17 Presentations now available
Thank you very much to everyone who joined the Certification of Digital Repositories IG’s breakout session “From principles to metrics to evaluation, increasing TRUST in data repositories” at the recent RDA VP17. We have uploaded the notes, the slides, and all pre-recorded video presentations to our RDA IG file repository at https://www.rd-alliance.org/node/163/file-repository.   VP17 session […]
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Jonathan Petters
Date Modified: April 26, 2021