Marieke Guy of UKOLN will give a presentation entitled Other sources of information and next steps at the British Library Preservation Advisory Centre/RLUK Training Day on Approaches to Digitisation to be held on Wednesday 9 February 2011.
Archive for February 7th, 2011
Approaches to Digitisation
Monday, February 7th, 2011Shared Services in Cloud Computing to Be Funded by HEFCE
Monday, February 7th, 2011The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has announced a £12.5m programme to deliver efficiencies through shared services in cloud computing infrastructure and applications. This new programme, which will be managed by JISC, supports colleges and universities in the innovative use of digital technologies.
A core virtual server infrastructure (a ‘cloud’) will be set up to offer discounted data management and storage services to HE institutions. It will be deployed in data centres starting with a pilot at Eduserv, which will work in collaboration with the Digital Curation Centre.
As a partner in the Digital Curation Centre, UKOLN at the University of Bath is pleased to be contributing to this major new initiative to support research data management, working in partnership with the JISC, JANET and Eduserv. Further information is available from the HEFCE Web site.