The White House rolled out an Executive Order and Open Data Policy yesterday, announced in a press release. There are 400,000 data sets from government agencies available, and the memorandum requires agencies to “create information…using machine-readable and open formats”. Visit DATA.gov and check out Under the Hood of the Open Data Engine for more on how you can get started using this new resource.

Over at the Digital Shift, there’s a piece on the Data Curation Profiles Directory, developed at Purdue to track how academic libraries are managing the explosion of research data sets.

From MLA this year, Eric Schnell wrote about the possibility of using the “flipped classroom” model at future conferences in Flipping the MLA Conference, and it is clear in the comments that others were thinking the same thing.  This is an interesting idea for how everyone can get more out of conferences by digesting the material beforehand and discussing it on-site with colleagues.

And finally, some Friday fun from a fellow MSKCC staff member…
https://twitter.com/caitlin_hool/status/332840676771364865