Programming for Open Access: Using Python to Promote Open File Formats in the Texas Data Repository

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dc.creatorGoodale, Ian
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-17T12:08:56Z
dc.date.available2022-06-17T12:08:56Z
dc.date.issued2022-04
dc.description.abstractThe preponderance of proprietary file formats being used for scholarly purposes poses an issue for the truly open dissemination of information. This was one of the key points identified by a working group I participated in at the University of Texas at Austin, in which working group members explored ways to improve metadata and reduce proprietary file formats in the Texas Data Repository. As a result of my work on the group, I created a group of Python scripts designed to help promote use of open file formats in the repository. These include scripts that automatically convert specified proprietary file formats to open ones, and that search through uploads to the Texas Data Repository within a specified date range and output a .xlsx or .csv with the dataverses and their files, flagging files with non-open extensions. This poster describes and demonstrate this evolving resource, which is hosted on GitHub and freely available for others to modify and contribute to, and explains how it aims to make dataverse content more openly accessible to all.en_US
dc.description.departmentUT Librariesen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2152/114717
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/41620
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofUT Faculty/Researcher Worksen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.restrictionOpenen_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectdigital humanitiesen_US
dc.subjectdigital scholarshipen_US
dc.subjectdataverseen_US
dc.subjectdataen_US
dc.subjectdata repositoryen_US
dc.titleProgramming for Open Access: Using Python to Promote Open File Formats in the Texas Data Repositoryen_US
dc.typePosteren_US

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