Outercurve Foundation Announces Acceptance of Data Curation for Excel (DataUp) Project

WAKEFIELD, Mass., Oct. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Outercurve Foundation today announced acceptance of the Data Curation for Excel (DataUp) project into the Research Accelerators Gallery. DataUp facilitates scientific discovery by enhancing the tool used most by the scientific and academic community —Excel— to enable easy to use data sharing, search, manipulation and storage. DataUp was contributed by Microsoft Research.  Key adopters include the University of California and the California Digital Library.

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DataUp allows scientific data curation by enabling researchers to check and make Excel data files CSV compatible; apply metadata; generate citations, and post data files to DataONE repositories. DataUp meets the needs of scientists and researchers actively working with data used in environmental science. The project's contributors also are collecting suggestions and requirements from libraries, data centers, data managers, and other data professionals who use or house scientific data, including libraries and publishers.

"DataUp's primary goal is to facilitate archiving of tabular scientific data," said Derek Campbell, Gallery Manager, Research Accelerators Gallery. "The tool comes in two form factors, an Excel add-in and a website, and easily integrates into scientific data management workflows. The goal of the project is to enable faster and more efficient research, thereby increasing the pace of scientific discovery." DataUp is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license.

"The DataUp project is an important tool for researchers as well as publishers and libraries which support the scientific community," said Paula Hunter, Executive Director, Outercurve Foundation. "We're pleased to accept DataUp into the Research Accelerators gallery, and to introduce the project's contributors to the FOSS community."

For more information on the DataUp project, the Research Accelerators Gallery or the Outercurve Foundation, please visit http://www.Outercurve.org.   

About The Outercurve Foundation

The Outercurve Foundation is a non-profit foundation providing software IP management and project development governance to enable and encourage organizations to develop software collaboratively in open source communities for faster results.  The Outercurve Foundation is the only open source foundation that is platform, technology, and license agnostic. For more information about the Outercurve Foundation contact [email protected].

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