UKOLN News

Prior to this year”s Euroscience Open Forum, on 16 – 17 July, Science Commons, SPARC, the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, and the Institut d”Estudis Catalans are organizing a
satellite event on the policies and technologies necessary to make good on the promise of scientific research in the networked era. The event, entitled “Policy and Technology for e-Science”,
will seek to lay out the principles of Open Science. Participants will include representatives from large-scale computing efforts in Europe, leading Open Access advocates, representatives from the European Commission and the European Science Foundation, Science Commons, Creative Commons, SPARC and the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, among others. The event is entirely free but there is a limited number of spaces.

Liz Lyon will give a presentation on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre and UKOLN at a Max Planck eScience Workshop in Goettingen, Germany on 19-20 June. It is a year since the publication of the Dealing with Data Report, and Liz will bring things up to date with a brief look at the changing landscape, a review of UK progress on data issues as well as a consideration of some new challenges and opportunities in this area.