Emma Tonkin, Technical Innovation Co-ordinator at the Innovation Support Centre, was recently interviewed by a journalist from Science and has attracted interest in her analysis of Twitter coverage of the 2011 London riots. A posting on the ISC blog is available.
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UKOLN Working Featured in Times Higher Education
Thursday, May 31st, 2012Work by UKOLN’s Innovation Support Centre in identifying patterns of institutional use of Facebook by Russell Group universities has been featured in the THE Scholarly Web column of the Times Higher Education (THE).
The article highlights the growth in Facebook ‘likes’ of official institutional Facebook pages for the universities, but warns of the dangers of reading too much into this metric if used in isolation. The original information was published in a blog post which asked “What Next, As Facebook Use in UK Universities Continues to Grow?“.
The Role of Libraries in Building Capacity and Capability for Data
Thursday, May 31st, 2012Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, gave a presentation entitled Building Capacity and Capability for Data: Requirements, Challenges, Opportunities to the Workshop “Skills and Human Resources for e-Infrastructures within Horizon 2020” which took place on 30 May 2012 in Brussels. Liz’ presentation focused on research data management skills with an emphasis on institutional roles, in particular on those of the library and librarians. Slides from her presentation are now available on the UKOLN Web site.
IDCC13: Dates and Call for Papers
Thursday, May 17th, 2012The Digital Curation Centre has issued the dates and call for papers of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference 2013. A news feature covering the theme of the conference to be held over 14-16 January 2013 at the Mövenpick Hotel, Amsterdam, is now available on the UKOLN Web site.
Ariadne Re-launch: ISC Delivers Enriched Content
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012The Innovation Support Centre has published a blog posting on the appearance of the re-launched Ariadne with particular emphasis on the new features that the ISC has developed to the benefit of readers and authors alike. The post is now available on the Innovation Support Centre Web site.
New JISC Observatory TechWatch Report
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012The JISC Observatory team is pleased to announce the launch of a TechWatch report entitled Delivering Web to Mobile. Further details are available from a news feature on the UKOLN Web site.
New Ariadne Available
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012Ariadne Issue 68 has recently been made available on the World Wide Web and its readers will immediately notice it has a completely new look-and-feel. There is a news feature available on the UKOLN Web site.
New Event: Hacking Bibliographic Data
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012DevCSI in co-operation with the Open Biblio Project, Open GLAM and OKFN is seeking expressions of interest from software developers, project managers, librarians and experts in the area of bibliographic data in respect of a free event being planned for 12 – 14 June 2012 in London.
The event will offer anyone with a particular interest in bibliographic data the opportunity to discuss the issues they see as relevant in this area, experiment in a focused way on prototyping systems and even hacking them together. It also intends to encourage people to explore current ways of doing things and consider how they might be improved. It is hoped the event will give participants the chance to form small groups to discuss bibliographic data issues, work on paper and/or real prototypes, datasets and APIs. The event will culminate in a series of presentations from the teams in terms of the work they have carried out.
If you are interested in this area, please email Mahendra Mahey at UKOLN and indicate if you would like to attend. Please let him know of the aspects of bibliographic data in which you are interested, since your responses will influence the planning of the event.
Partnering for Research Data
Monday, April 30th, 2012Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, will be giving a presentation entitled Partnering for Research Data at the 2nd LIBER International Workshop on Digital Preservation to be held over 7-8 May 2012 in Florence.
The event has been organised by the LIBER Steering Committee for Heritage Collections and Preservation in collaboration with the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale in Florence and the National Library of the Netherlands. The theme of the Workshop this year is Partnerships in curating European digital resources, in recognition of the increasing importance in the current financial situation of creating partnerships to secure long-term access to digital collections. Details of the Workshop are available from the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale Web site.
Managing Research Data Hack Days in Manchester
Friday, April 20th, 2012The next Managing Research Data Hack Days will take place on 3 and 4 May 2012 in the Weston Room II at the Manchester Conference Centre. MRD Hack days are a free small event (which includes accommodation and food) for developers and experts who are interested in working on ideas in the area of Managing Research Data. These MRD days have been organised by DevCSI, the JISC Managing Research Data Programme and the JISC Orbital Project. They aim to bring together software developers, project managers, data librarians and experts particularly in the area of Managing Research Data.
We already have a number of ideas for hacks posted on the DevCSI Hack Days ideas page.
Further information and a booking form are available from the DevCSI location on the UKOLN Web site.