Issue 66 of Ariadne Web Magazine was published recently covering topics from file format profiles, server logs analysis, event amplification, virtual 3D imaging and much more besides together with event reports and reviews. Further information is available from the UKOLN Web site and from Ariadne.
Archive for February, 2011
Ariadne Issue 66 Available
Monday, February 28th, 2011Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade
Monday, February 28th, 2011Dr Liz Lyon, Associate Director, DCC and Director of UKOLN will speak on The Changing Data Landscape at the beginning of the first day of the 2nd DCC Roadshow to be held over 1 – 3 March 2011 at the Halifax Conference Centre, Sheffield. The theme of this second regional roadshow is Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade while Day One will consider The Research Data Landscape. The Programme and further information are available from the Digital Curation Centre Web site.
Temporary Failure of Email
Friday, February 25th, 2011We regret that for Friday 25 February it will not be possible to contact UKOLN over email because of a fault with the University of Bath email service. Please note however that staff may be contacted by telephone. All staff contact pages are available from the UKOLN Web site. We will use a further newsfeed item to announce resumption of email service.
Engineering Research Data Management Planning Requirements
Monday, February 21st, 2011The ERIM (Engineering Research Information Management) Project has released four documents related to data management planning requirements. The first is a set of principles for engineering research data management. The second is a thematic analysis of the guidance given by five organisations on writing data management plans (DMPs). The outcomes of the analysis and the principles were used to construct a DMP requirement specification for engineering researchers and their departments. This in turn was used to plan support for DMP-writing in an engineering research centre at Bath, and provide specific DMP requirements for its researchers.
The ERIM Project is part of JISC’s Managing Research Data Programme, looking at data management planning in EPSRC-funded projects. It is a collaboration between the Innovative design and Manufacturing Research Centre (IdMRC) at the University of Bath and UKOLN, representing the Digital Curation Centre.
Patients Participate! Project Funded by JISC
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011JISC has just announced funding for the Patients Participate! Project in its Developing Community Content strand. Patients Participate! is led by UKOLN in collaboration with the British Library and the Association of Medical Research Charities. The project will investigate the potential of crowdsourced ‘lay summaries’, derived from medical articles in the PubMed Central repository, as a means of enabling patients to understand better the nature of academic research into medical issues.
New DCC/JISC Legal Guide: How to License Research Data
Monday, February 14th, 2011The 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.
UKOLN Seminar: Website Design – Down with Technicalities, Up with the User and Crawler
Monday, February 14th, 2011This 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.
Approaches to Digitisation
Monday, February 7th, 2011Marieke 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.
Shared 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.
UKOLN Update: Activities January 2011
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011The recently released issue of UKOLN Update, a monthly newsletter, provides an overview of UKOLN work during January 2011. It highlights key news features, blog posts, presentations, and events related to staff activities.
Most frequently used words in UKOLN blog posts, January 2011