Archive for February 14th, 2011

New DCC/JISC Legal Guide: How to License Research Data

Monday, February 14th, 2011

The UK Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has published the second in its series of How-to Guides: How to License Research Data by Alex Ball of UKOLN and the DCC, in association with JISC Legal. The guide explains why licensing data is important, what licensing options are available to researchers, and how to go about attaching a licence to a dataset. It is designed for principal investigators, researchers, and those who provide access to research data through a data centre, repository or archive.

The guide is available for online reading or download from the DCC Web site.

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UKOLN Seminar: Website Design – Down with Technicalities, Up with the User and Crawler

Monday, February 14th, 2011

This year UKOLN is opening up access to its seminar programme to other staff and researchers at the University of Bath and the wider community. We are pleased to announce the first international speaker of the year: Professor Melius Weideman, Head of Department in the Faculty of Informatics and Design, Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town, South Africa. Professor Weideman will deliver a seminar entitled “Website Design – Down with Technicalities, Up with the User and Crawler” which will be held in the University Library at the University of Bath from 2-4 pm on Monday 21 February.

A small number of places are available for this seminar.  An Eventbrite booking form is available for those who wish to reserve a free place. This also provides further information about the seminar.

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