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Report on Augmented Reality on Smartphones: Feedback Invited

Thursday, April 28th, 2011

Feedback is invited on a TechWatch report entitled Augmented Reality for Smartphones which has been commissioned by UKOLN. The report, which has been written by Ben Butchart, Edina, has been mentioned in the April issue of Wired by Bruce Sterling:

This is a fine piece of comprehensive research work. If you’re an AR developer or content guy, you’re gonna want a printout of this lying around, so you can brandish it at people. You’ll look like you know what you’re talking about!

Comments on the report are invited until Friday 6 May 2011. After that the final version of the report will be released.

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ACCI Task Forces Report

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

The six task forces established by the National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastucture (ACCI) have recently approved the final drafts of the reports on the areas in which they were asked to suggest recommendations and ideas for advancing cyberinfrastructure in support of NSF research. Those areas were:

  • Campus Bridging
  • Cyberlearning and Workforce Development
  • Data and Visualization
  • Grand Challenges
  • High Performance Computing
  • Software for Science and Engineering

These task forces were each led by ACCI members and their membership included a cross-section of members from both academic and industrial communities. Over a two-year period the task forces gathered broad community input via open workshops and meetings, solicitation of white papers, and other outreach efforts. Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, Digital Curation Centre, is a member of the ACCI Task Force on Data and Visualization. All six reports are available from the NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) Web site.

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IDCC11: Call for Papers

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

The theme of the 7th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC11) will be Public? Private? Personal? navigating the open data landscape. It will take place this year in Bristol, UK over 5 – 7 December 2011.

Digital curation manages, maintains, preserves, and adds value to digital information throughout its lifecycle, reducing threats to long-term value, mitigating the risk of digital obsolescence and enhancing usefulness for research and scholarship. IDCC11 will bring together practitioners who create information, those who curate and manage it, and those who use it together with those who research and teach about curation processes.

In its Call for Papers the IDCC11 Programme Committee invites submissions on current concerns in digital curation and specific concerns arising from our conference theme.

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Building a Data Citation Demonstrator for Bionetwork Models

Monday, April 18th, 2011

Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, DCC spoke on the SageCite Project and the new Patients Participate! Project at the recent Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress in San Francisco. She gave a presentation entitled Building a data citation demonstrator for bionetwork models which is now available.

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Data Management Planning at ICED11

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

A paper written by the ERIM Project team has been accepted for presentation at the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED11), to be held over 15-18 August 2011 in Copenhagen. The paper, Data Management Planning in Engineering Design and Manufacturing Research by Mansur Darlington, Alex Ball, Tom Howard, Chris McMahon and Steve Culley, will explain how the project characterised the nature of engineering research data and developed a modelling technique for visualising its context.

The ERIM Project is a JISC-funded collaboration between the Innovative Design and Manufacturing Research Centre at the University of Bath, and UKOLN in its capacity as part of the UK Digital Curation Centre.

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SageCite Attends the Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress 2011

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

Members of the SageCite Project will again attend the Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress which will be held over 15 – 16 April 2011 at the University of California, San Francisco. The Congress is the annual event organised by Sage Bionetworks, collaborators on the SageCite Project. The SageCite Project developed from participation of the project partners in the 2010 event, and this year the project will be back to inform the community of the progress achieved and to be inspired once again by the vision of Sage Bionetworks and the other participants at the Congress. Note also that this event will be streamed.

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UKOLN and the Cultural Heritage Sector

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

A brief survey of UKOLN’s long history of engagement with the cultural heritage sector is provided by a feature on the UKOLN Web site. The survey also provides information on our continued involvement in the sector as well as a link to further information on this area of UKOLN activity.

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UKOLN Seminar: OER Sustainability through Teaching and Research Innovation (OSTRICH)

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

Vic Jenkins and Alex Lydiate of the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Office, University of Bath, will give a UKOLN seminar on OSTRICH (OER Sustainability through Teaching & Research Innovation: Cascading across HEIs).

Starting at 14:00 on Thursday 14 April 2011,  in the Library Level 4 Meeting Room, this seminar will explain work on Open Educational Resources (OER) projects at the University of Bath and other UK Higher Education Institutions.

Cascading across HEIs is a year-long JISC-funded project led by the Beyond Distance Research Alliance at the University of Leicester. The project explores the transfer and cascade of the key outcomes of a previous institutional OER pilot project at Leicester (OTTER) to two partner institutions (University of Bath and University of Derby).

The progress of the OSTRICH project so far at the University of Bath will be described by Vic Jenkins (Learning Technologist in the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Office). This will include highlights and challenges encountered, discussions around IPR for learning and teaching resources, and the sustainability of processes for managing the release of OERs on an institutional basis.

Alex Lydiate (Educational Software and Systems Developer) will present an overview of the design of the Drupal-based OSTRICH distributed repository and the rationale behind it.  This will include an outline of the proposed strategy for representing the OSTRICH OER records on the Web.

If you would like to attend this free seminar, please book using the Eventbrite booking form.  Note: You should also use the online booking form if you would like to view a live video stream of this talk.

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Liz Lyon Speaking at Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress, San Francisco

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, will be speaking on the SageCite Project and the new Patients Participate! Project at the Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress in San Francisco on 15 – 16 April 2011.

The Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress brings together research and industry leaders, policy and IT experts, patient advocates, foundations and governments to work on programs and platforms that will create a disruptive transition in data sharing and public engagement.

Sage Bionetworks and Fora.tv are offering a free live webcast of the Congress platform sessions, allowing anyone to attend the virtual conference:

Date:  15 – 16 April 2011 beginning at 8:00 AM PDT
Webcast URL: http://bit.ly/htNpUR

Please see the Congress Agenda for presentation timings.  For more information and background on Sage Bionetworks and the Commons Congress, go to the www.sagecongress.org and www.sagebase.org Web sites.

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I2S2 Benefit Use Cases

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

The I2S2 Project is pleased to announce the availability of two benefit use cases.

The Infrastructure for Integration in Structural Sciences (I2S2) Project is identifying requirements for a data-driven research infrastructure in ‘Structural Science’, focusing primarily on the domains of Chemistry and Crystallography. A key aim of I2S2 has been to develop use cases that examine the business processes of research, identify the costs and benefits of the integrated approach proposed by I2S2, and explore perspectives of ‘scale and complexity’ and ‘research discipline’ throughout the data lifecycle. During the course of the project, the complementary but often different perspectives of researchers and central facilities in terms of benefits were also recognised as significant and built into the use cases.
The I2S2 Cost/Benefit Use Case 1 (National Crystallography Service) traverses administrative boundaries between institutions and addresses issues of scale (local lab to mid-range national facility to national Diamond synchrotron) and provides a central service perspective of benefits. I2S2 Cost/Benefit Use Case 2 (Prof Martin Dove, University of Cambridge) applies the approach to Mineral Sciences and interactions between individuals, collaborative research groups and facilities, and provides a researcher’s perspective of benefits.

Each use case forms the source material for the Benefits Case Studies contributed by the project to the Managing Research Data Programme Benefits Synthesis Report.

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