UKOLN News

Registration for PV 2005 entitled “Ensuring long-term preservation and adding value to scientific and technical data” is now open. This conference is the third of a series on long-term preservation and adding value to scientific data, begun in 2002 in France. Over the past several years the importance of this topic has been recognised increasingly widely and the term “digital curation” has come into use which covers similar ideas. The conference will be held at The Royal Society, Edinburgh, from 21-23 November 2005.

Registration for the conference is now open. The Conference will be of interest to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains that are engaged in the creation, use and management of digital data from researchers and curators through to policy makers and funders.

The University of Bath is hosting an information day on the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) on the 9th September from 12:00 to 16:00. This event will consist of an introduction to the aims and objectives of the DCC and an opportunity to discuss the challenges of preserving digital assets through time with representatives of the centre.

On Tuesday, September 13, a special session at DC-2005 will, over a three-hour period, deal with the practical applications of Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) in the context of metadata, under the title: “Enhancing the Understanding of Meaning”. Pilot implementations and case studies, together with investigations of issues and requirements regarding vocabulary repositories and term/concept identifiers, provide the background for discussions – and there will be a question and answer session involving the audience and many experts in the field. Important contributions will come from UKOLN: Rachel Heery and Andy Powell are among the presenters and Traugott Koch is chairing the event.