Report from the pro-iBiosphere spider plot and data visualization hackathon delivered at the final conference of the pro-iBiosphere project, 12 June 2014, Bouchout Castle, Agentschap Plantentuin Meise (Botanic Garden Meise), Belgium.

We present a sensitive search for WISE W3 (12 μm) and W4 (22 μm) excesses from warm optically thin dust around Hipparcos main sequence stars within 75 pc from the Sun. We use contemporaneously measured photometry from WISE, remove sources of contamination, and derive and apply corrections to saturated fluxes to attain optimal sensitivity to >10 μm excesses. We use data from the WISE All-Sky Survey Catalog rather than the AllWISE release because we find...

Spreadsheet providing breakdown of the national Acts, Bills and Standards relevant to sharing open data on the governance of higher education in South Africa. Data generated as a component of the situational analysis conducted for the 'Use of open data in the governance of South African higher education' research project, in the IDRC/WWWF 'Exploring Emerging Impacts of Open Data in the South' initiative.

To better deal with tracking cross-discipline data usage, a number of groups have come up with guidelines and principles for data citation. In 2012, the National Academy’s Board on Research Data and Information released the report “For Attribution-Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards” [1] and it was followed last year by the CODATA-ICSTI report “Out of Cite, Out of Mind”.[2] Participants from a number of groups synthesized a single set of principles for...