JISC has announced that it has approved funding for a further three years from March 2007 for the Digital Curation Centre. Director of the DCC Chris Rusbridge welcomed the extension of funding, and the confidence demonstrated by JISC in the work of the DCC: “We see that digital data are being taken ever more seriously across science and scholarship today. The changes introduced in our plans for DCC Phase 2 will help us get the message across even better on how to curate data for use now and in the future”.
Archive for November 13th, 2006
Digital Curation Centre receives further funding
Monday, November 13th, 2006JSC Certificate Award
Monday, November 13th, 2006Certificates have been awarded to Ann Chapman of UKOLN and other members of the Working Group on GMD/SMD by the Joint Steering Committee on the Revision of AACR (JSC) to express its appreciation of the significant contribution that their work has made to the development of AACR/RDA.
HERDA-SW Workshop on Digital Repositories
Monday, November 13th, 2006Rachel Heery of UKOLN led a workshop on Digital Repositories organised by HERDA-SW, the Association of Higher Education Institutions in the South West at its recent Annual Conference in Torquay. Her presentation is now available.
Materials from “Exploiting the Potential of Wikis”
Monday, November 13th, 2006The UKOLN workshop “Exploiting the Potential of Wikis” took place at Austin Court, Birmingham recently to capacity participation. Speakers” slides and notes from the discussion groups are now available.