Excited to attend my first Taiwan research symposium this year. Grateful to Professor Chuang Tyng-Ruey 莊庭瑞 for welcoming us to the Research Data Management Workshop 2026 研究資料管理工作坊 at Academia Sinica 中央研究院 today. I'll do my best to live-post: 2026.odw.tw #RDMW2026 🧪
March 26, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Excited to attend my first Taiwan research symposium this year. Grateful to Professor Chuang Tyng-Ruey 莊庭瑞 for welcoming us to the Research Data Management Workshop 2026 研究資料管理工作坊 at Academia Sinica 中央研究院 today. I'll do my best to live-post: 2026.odw.tw #RDMW2026 🧪
"The Ecological and the Sociological: Tapping Into Taiwan’s Wealth of Long-Term Research Datasets" (rdm.depositar.io/news/rdmw2026/) is my first official science writing assignment in Taiwan! Read on if you're a researcher or science journalist interested looking for resources and leads in Asia. 🧋🧪
The Ecological and the Sociological: Tapping Into Taiwan’s Wealth of Long-Term Research Datasets
Written by Ben Young Landis for depositar lab / Research Data Management Hub
rdm.depositar.io
April 20, 2026 at 10:28 AM
"The Ecological and the Sociological: Tapping Into Taiwan’s Wealth of Long-Term Research Datasets" (rdm.depositar.io/news/rdmw2026/) is my first official science writing assignment in Taiwan! Read on if you're a researcher or science journalist interested looking for resources and leads in Asia. 🧋🧪
Here is my original live-thread of the 2026 Research Data Management Workshop 研究資料管理工作坊 #RDMW2026 hosted at Academia Sinica, from March 2026: bsky.app/profile/youn... 🧋🧪
Excited to attend my first Taiwan research symposium this year. Grateful to Professor Chuang Tyng-Ruey 莊庭瑞 for welcoming us to the Research Data Management Workshop 2026 研究資料管理工作坊 at Academia Sinica 中央研究院 today. I'll do my best to live-post: 2026.odw.tw #RDMW2026 🧪
April 20, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Here is my original live-thread of the 2026 Research Data Management Workshop 研究資料管理工作坊 #RDMW2026 hosted at Academia Sinica, from March 2026: bsky.app/profile/youn... 🧋🧪
Grateful to Tyng-Ruey Chuang and the #DepositarLab #研究資料寄存所實驗室 team at #AcademiaSinica #中央研究院 for having me cover these ecological and social sciences talks at #RDMW2026 . 感謝個位老師的指教！ rdm.depositar.io/news/rdmw2026/ #Taiwan #ScienceInTaiwan #TaiwanResearch #DataScience #台灣 #台灣研究 #台灣科學 #科普 #科學新聞 🧋🧪
The Ecological and the Sociological: Tapping Into Taiwan’s Wealth of Long-Term Research Datasets
Written by Ben Young Landis for depositar lab / Research Data Management Hub
rdm.depositar.io
April 20, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Grateful to Tyng-Ruey Chuang and the #DepositarLab #研究資料寄存所實驗室 team at #AcademiaSinica #中央研究院 for having me cover these ecological and social sciences talks at #RDMW2026 . 感謝個位老師的指教！ rdm.depositar.io/news/rdmw2026/ #Taiwan #ScienceInTaiwan #TaiwanResearch #DataScience #台灣 #台灣研究 #台灣科學 #科普 #科學新聞 🧋🧪
Rorie Edmunds replies there could be a way to connect labels being developed by Local Contexts @localcontexts.bsky.social into metadata in DOIs etc. so that these flags can come up to researchers perusing data, cautioning Indigenous permissions needed: localcontexts.org
#RDMW2026 🧪
#RDMW2026 🧪
localcontexts.org
March 26, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Rorie Edmunds replies there could be a way to connect labels being developed by Local Contexts @localcontexts.bsky.social into metadata in DOIs etc. so that these flags can come up to researchers perusing data, cautioning Indigenous permissions needed: localcontexts.org
#RDMW2026 🧪
#RDMW2026 🧪
Sidebar: In case you didn't know about the ancestral connections between Taiwan's Indigenous peoples and Polynesian cultures across the Pacific: Umin • Itei Tanohila opened and closed his talk with a grateful "Ma’alo’"
Where might you heard a similar phrase? "Mahalo", in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi. #RDMW2026 🧪
Where might you heard a similar phrase? "Mahalo", in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi. #RDMW2026 🧪
March 26, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Sidebar: In case you didn't know about the ancestral connections between Taiwan's Indigenous peoples and Polynesian cultures across the Pacific: Umin • Itei Tanohila opened and closed his talk with a grateful "Ma’alo’"
Where might you heard a similar phrase? "Mahalo", in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi. #RDMW2026 🧪
Where might you heard a similar phrase? "Mahalo", in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi. #RDMW2026 🧪
First up is independent researcher Rorie Edmunds on "Persistent Identifiers: What Are They and Should I Care About Them?" One simple example of PIDs for academicians? Digital Object Identifiers (DOI), now standard for our publications. #RDMW2026 🧪
Symposium Program: 2026.odw.tw/speakers/
Symposium Program: 2026.odw.tw/speakers/
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2026.odw.tw
March 26, 2026 at 2:03 AM
First up is independent researcher Rorie Edmunds on "Persistent Identifiers: What Are They and Should I Care About Them?" One simple example of PIDs for academicians? Digital Object Identifiers (DOI), now standard for our publications. #RDMW2026 🧪
Symposium Program: 2026.odw.tw/speakers/
Symposium Program: 2026.odw.tw/speakers/
Lots of Taiwan natural history data resources mentioned today at #RDMW2026. Many hosted by Biodiversity Research Museum, Academia Sinica:
portal.taibif.tw
hast.biodiv.tw
taibol.biodiv.tw
ppi.naturedb.org
asiz.naturedb.org
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portal.taibif.tw
hast.biodiv.tw
taibol.biodiv.tw
ppi.naturedb.org
asiz.naturedb.org
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首頁 | ASIZ
Biodiversity Research Museum, Academia Sinica - Explore 943 natural history specimens, 712 digitized images. Search by species, collector, or location.
asiz.naturedb.org
March 26, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Lots of Taiwan natural history data resources mentioned today at #RDMW2026. Many hosted by Biodiversity Research Museum, Academia Sinica:
portal.taibif.tw
hast.biodiv.tw
taibol.biodiv.tw
ppi.naturedb.org
asiz.naturedb.org
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portal.taibif.tw
hast.biodiv.tw
taibol.biodiv.tw
ppi.naturedb.org
asiz.naturedb.org
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Other interruptions to ecological monitoring in Taiwan's fog forests: NTU's Choy Huang says yellow-throated marten 黃喉貂 Martes flavigula) love chewing on instruments! Also, random filmmaking crews covering up instruments when on location shoots. #RDMW2026 🧪
March 26, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Other interruptions to ecological monitoring in Taiwan's fog forests: NTU's Choy Huang says yellow-throated marten 黃喉貂 Martes flavigula) love chewing on instruments! Also, random filmmaking crews covering up instruments when on location shoots. #RDMW2026 🧪
Incredible talk by Lee Mei-Chun about toils of field anthropology x community relationship building x research ethics x data care x plus all the complexities of research data management. "Field work, then, is the care work sustained by continuous acts of caring and being cared for." #RDMW2026 🧪
March 26, 2026 at 7:05 AM
Incredible talk by Lee Mei-Chun about toils of field anthropology x community relationship building x research ethics x data care x plus all the complexities of research data management. "Field work, then, is the care work sustained by continuous acts of caring and being cared for." #RDMW2026 🧪
Sidebar: Taiwan has a rich history of filmmaking and local cinemas. Many of these small town cinemas have been lost or are ruins hidden in plain sight (follow @spectralcodex.com for more). And Tâi-gí was once a language suppressed by KMT dictatorship, adding another conservation layer. #RDMW2026 🧪
March 26, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Sidebar: Taiwan has a rich history of filmmaking and local cinemas. Many of these small town cinemas have been lost or are ruins hidden in plain sight (follow @spectralcodex.com for more). And Tâi-gí was once a language suppressed by KMT dictatorship, adding another conservation layer. #RDMW2026 🧪
Ecological research on Taiwan's Indigenous lands share sensitivities/reconciliations in colonial/settler histories worldwide. Whose data is it? How to respect sacred sites off-limits to outsiders? Limits of settler law versus Indigenous taboos? Overview by Umin • Itei Tanohila at #RDMW2026 🧪
March 26, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Ecological research on Taiwan's Indigenous lands share sensitivities/reconciliations in colonial/settler histories worldwide. Whose data is it? How to respect sacred sites off-limits to outsiders? Limits of settler law versus Indigenous taboos? Overview by Umin • Itei Tanohila at #RDMW2026 🧪
Wang Su-Fen's talk relates to LTSER Taiwan, a nation-wide network of monitoring stations and projects. 臺灣長期社會生態核心觀測站 Long-Term Social-Ecological Research manages both ecological research and social sciences data from these regions and projects: www.ltsertw.org
#RDMW2026 🧪
#RDMW2026 🧪
臺灣長期社會生態核心觀測站
LTSER Taiwan 是為臺灣的長期社會生態研究領域提供支持的計畫，我們希望在臺灣具代表性的社會生態系統，透過關注在地核心議題的方式，與不同政府單位、研究及民間團隊合作建立長期監測據點，提供長期基礎監測資料⋯ 了解更多
www.ltsertw.org
March 26, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Wang Su-Fen's talk relates to LTSER Taiwan, a nation-wide network of monitoring stations and projects. 臺灣長期社會生態核心觀測站 Long-Term Social-Ecological Research manages both ecological research and social sciences data from these regions and projects: www.ltsertw.org
#RDMW2026 🧪
#RDMW2026 🧪
Hilarious but sad reality of research surveys in Taiwan: Scams are a wide-spread problem in Taiwan, so many people suspicious of outreach from strangers. Wang Su-Fen of NCUE says local police sometimes get reports of scammers and turns out to be people misunderstanding her research team #RDMW2026 🧪
March 26, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Hilarious but sad reality of research surveys in Taiwan: Scams are a wide-spread problem in Taiwan, so many people suspicious of outreach from strangers. Wang Su-Fen of NCUE says local police sometimes get reports of scammers and turns out to be people misunderstanding her research team #RDMW2026 🧪
Lots of audience chuckles because these museum specimen collections x taxonomy history headaches are real. Misspellings in binomial names, gaps in data, labels written at different points of a species taxonomic history. How to sort all this when digitizing, and automate fixes. #RDMW2026 🧪
March 26, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Lots of audience chuckles because these museum specimen collections x taxonomy history headaches are real. Misspellings in binomial names, gaps in data, labels written at different points of a species taxonomic history. How to sort all this when digitizing, and automate fixes. #RDMW2026 🧪
Digital archeology of film is super important, says Hsu, making historic images and art available for research.
Just this slide showing archival news reels shows how important this is, esp. given Taiwan's history of KMT censorship and information control (also re 台灣史補課 wave right now). #RDMW2026 🧪
Just this slide showing archival news reels shows how important this is, esp. given Taiwan's history of KMT censorship and information control (also re 台灣史補課 wave right now). #RDMW2026 🧪
March 26, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Digital archeology of film is super important, says Hsu, making historic images and art available for research.
Just this slide showing archival news reels shows how important this is, esp. given Taiwan's history of KMT censorship and information control (also re 台灣史補課 wave right now). #RDMW2026 🧪
Just this slide showing archival news reels shows how important this is, esp. given Taiwan's history of KMT censorship and information control (also re 台灣史補課 wave right now). #RDMW2026 🧪
Yang Fu-Chun hilarious going over the headaches in natural history collections. "N/A" and empty fields in old data for old specimens; species versus subspecies demotions/reclassifications over time; and honestly, limitations of museum people power LOL:
hackmd.io/@PxTmoqeOTYC...
#RDMW2026 🧪
hackmd.io/@PxTmoqeOTYC...
#RDMW2026 🧪
國立臺灣博物館生物類數位典藏欄位資料標準 - HackMD
版本號：1.0（尚未穩定）最新更新者：楊富鈞（國立臺灣博物館典藏管理組）最新更新日期：2023-05-01
hackmd.io
March 26, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Yang Fu-Chun hilarious going over the headaches in natural history collections. "N/A" and empty fields in old data for old specimens; species versus subspecies demotions/reclassifications over time; and honestly, limitations of museum people power LOL:
hackmd.io/@PxTmoqeOTYC...
#RDMW2026 🧪
hackmd.io/@PxTmoqeOTYC...
#RDMW2026 🧪
2026 研究資料管理工作坊
Research Data Management Workshop hosted by Dr. Chuang Tyng-Ruey 莊庭瑞 (lab.depositar.io/members/) was a super informative symposium. Grateful for this overview of ecological/social science data management in Taiwan—and first visit to Academia Sinica. 多謝！https://2026.odw.tw/ #RDMW2026 🧪
Research Data Management Workshop hosted by Dr. Chuang Tyng-Ruey 莊庭瑞 (lab.depositar.io/members/) was a super informative symposium. Grateful for this overview of ecological/social science data management in Taiwan—and first visit to Academia Sinica. 多謝！https://2026.odw.tw/ #RDMW2026 🧪
March 26, 2026 at 12:26 PM
2026 研究資料管理工作坊
Research Data Management Workshop hosted by Dr. Chuang Tyng-Ruey 莊庭瑞 (lab.depositar.io/members/) was a super informative symposium. Grateful for this overview of ecological/social science data management in Taiwan—and first visit to Academia Sinica. 多謝！https://2026.odw.tw/ #RDMW2026 🧪
Research Data Management Workshop hosted by Dr. Chuang Tyng-Ruey 莊庭瑞 (lab.depositar.io/members/) was a super informative symposium. Grateful for this overview of ecological/social science data management in Taiwan—and first visit to Academia Sinica. 多謝！https://2026.odw.tw/ #RDMW2026 🧪
Cultural archives, like individual film reels, share many data management considerations with ecological data, even geolocation of filming locations, theater locations, etc. Big need to preserve records of Tâi-gí / Taiwanese Hokkien films from decades ago: tfai.openmuseum.tw/twmdb
#RDMW2026 🧪
#RDMW2026 🧪
tfai.openmuseum.tw
March 26, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Cultural archives, like individual film reels, share many data management considerations with ecological data, even geolocation of filming locations, theater locations, etc. Big need to preserve records of Tâi-gí / Taiwanese Hokkien films from decades ago: tfai.openmuseum.tw/twmdb
#RDMW2026 🧪
#RDMW2026 🧪
Closing out #RDMW2026 we have a refreshing parallel example to research data: film and motion picture arts! 許正欣 of Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures discusses 光影的數位考古：從物件典藏到 TWMDb 的知識轉向 on the curation of Tâi-gí film history through TWMDB (Taiwan Movie Database): tfai.openmuseum.tw/twmdb 🧪
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tfai.openmuseum.tw
March 26, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Closing out #RDMW2026 we have a refreshing parallel example to research data: film and motion picture arts! 許正欣 of Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures discusses 光影的數位考古：從物件典藏到 TWMDb 的知識轉向 on the curation of Tâi-gí film history through TWMDB (Taiwan Movie Database): tfai.openmuseum.tw/twmdb 🧪
Maybe it's the caffeine but probably the topic as this block keeps getting laughs. Everyone feels the pain of natural history collections. Now up is 李思賢 of 中央研究院 生物多樣性研究中心 Academia Sinica Biodiversity Research Center: biodiv.tw/index.php?la...
#RDMW2026 🧪
#RDMW2026 🧪
Biodiversity
幫助人類了解生物多樣性，
biodiv.tw
March 26, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Maybe it's the caffeine but probably the topic as this block keeps getting laughs. Everyone feels the pain of natural history collections. Now up is 李思賢 of 中央研究院 生物多樣性研究中心 Academia Sinica Biodiversity Research Center: biodiv.tw/index.php?la...
#RDMW2026 🧪
#RDMW2026 🧪
Our final block at #RDMW2026 turns the lens to museum collections. First is "Naming the 'Chaos': Deconstructing Name Management Patterns in Natural History Collections" 為「混亂」命名：解構名字的管理樣態 with 楊富鈞 Yang Fu-Chun of 國立臺灣博物館 National Taiwan Museum. Past talk: portal.taibif.tw/media/online...
#RDMW2026 🧪
#RDMW2026 🧪
https://portal.taibif.tw/media/online-workshop-handouts/20240521-開放資料的前置準備與清理-楊富鈞.pdf
March 26, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Our final block at #RDMW2026 turns the lens to museum collections. First is "Naming the 'Chaos': Deconstructing Name Management Patterns in Natural History Collections" 為「混亂」命名：解構名字的管理樣態 with 楊富鈞 Yang Fu-Chun of 國立臺灣博物館 National Taiwan Museum. Past talk: portal.taibif.tw/media/online...
#RDMW2026 🧪
#RDMW2026 🧪
Another UC Davis Aggies connection with our next speaker 李梅君 Lee Mei-Chun 中央研究院民族學研究所. Lee studies rumorscapes in Taiwan, Memes of Care, and more. She also contributes to "Guavanthropology" (amazing name for an anthro blog):
meichunlee.wordpress.com
guavanthropology.tw/author/%E6%9...
#RDMW2026 🧪
meichunlee.wordpress.com
guavanthropology.tw/author/%E6%9...
#RDMW2026 🧪
mei-chun lee
meichunlee.wordpress.com
March 26, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Another UC Davis Aggies connection with our next speaker 李梅君 Lee Mei-Chun 中央研究院民族學研究所. Lee studies rumorscapes in Taiwan, Memes of Care, and more. She also contributes to "Guavanthropology" (amazing name for an anthro blog):
meichunlee.wordpress.com
guavanthropology.tw/author/%E6%9...
#RDMW2026 🧪
meichunlee.wordpress.com
guavanthropology.tw/author/%E6%9...
#RDMW2026 🧪
Sidebar: My tiny world is tinier as Dr. Yuan cited LTSER Lyudao collaboration with UC Davis, with Kwan-Liu Ma (馬匡六), distinguished professor of computer science at VIDI Labs / Center of Excellence for Visualization:
www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ma/about.html
www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/zh_tw/member...
#RDMW2026 🧪
www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ma/about.html
www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/zh_tw/member...
#RDMW2026 🧪
Kwan-Liu Ma | About
www.cs.ucdavis.edu
March 26, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Sidebar: My tiny world is tinier as Dr. Yuan cited LTSER Lyudao collaboration with UC Davis, with Kwan-Liu Ma (馬匡六), distinguished professor of computer science at VIDI Labs / Center of Excellence for Visualization:
www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ma/about.html
www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/zh_tw/member...
#RDMW2026 🧪
www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ma/about.html
www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/zh_tw/member...
#RDMW2026 🧪