A short paper entitled What’s on the Technology Horizon? presented at the Internet Librarian International Conference 2011 which described the work of the JISC Observatory has been featured in an article entitled “Technology Trends to Watch” published in the Information Today Europe Magazine.
Archive for October, 2011
What’s on the Technology Horizon?
Monday, October 31st, 20117th International Digital Curation Conference: Register Now
Tuesday, October 25th, 20117th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC11):
Public? Private? Personal? navigating the open data landscape
Marriott Royal Hotel
Bristol
UK
5-8 December 2011
Registration for IDCC11 is now open.
Register before 15 November to take advantage of the current conference registration fee and a special institutional discount. You can also take your pick from the programme of pre- and post-conference workshops. Many of the workshops are free and all have limited availability - register now to avoid disappointment!
New DCC Guide: How to Cite Datasets and Link to Publications
Friday, October 21st, 2011The UK Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has published the fourth in its series of how-to guides: How to Cite Datasets and Link to Publications by Alex Ball and Monica Duke of UKOLN and the DCC.
This guide explains how researchers can create links between their publications and the underlying data, so that each can be found from the other. It also provides advice for repository managers and data archivists wishing to make their data holdings easier to cite.
The new guide is available for online reading or download from the DCC Web site.
Launch of Patients Participate! Findings
Monday, October 17th, 2011The JISC-funded Patients Participate! Project releases the findings of a 7-month feasiblity study during a ‘TalkScience’ event, chaired by Tracey Brown of the charitable trust Sense about Science, at the British Library on Tuesday 18 October 2011. More information about the launch of these findings on ‘Bridging the Gap between Information Access and Understanding’ can be found in the event’s press release and on the Patients! Participate Web site.
International Journal of Digital Curation, Volume 6, Issue 2
Friday, October 7th, 2011UKOLN has just published – on behalf of the UK Digital Curation Centre – Volume 6, Issue 2 of the International Journal of Digital Curation. This issue features seven peer-reviewed papers and eleven general articles. A news feature providing a summary is available from the UKOLN Web site.
IMPACT/myGrid Hackathon
Friday, October 7th, 2011Bookings are now open for a free 2-day developer workshop/hackathon which aims to encourage take-up and further development of tools developed by the IMPACT Project. The workshop is intended for developers and implementers. It will allow them to take a closer look at the tools available and investigate new solutions and features that could be developed for the benefit of the wider community.
Full details including how to book your place are available in a news feature on the UKOLN Web site.
UKOLN Update September 2011
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011The recently released issue of UKOLN Update, a monthly newsletter, provides an overview of UKOLN work during September 2011. It highlights key news features, blog posts, presentations, and events related to staff activities.
Most frequently used words in UKOLN blogs, September 2011
Registration Opens for DCC Cambridge Roadshow
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011The UK Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is running a series of free inter-linked regional workshops designed to support institutional research data management planning and training. These DCC Roadshows are being produced to allow every institution in the UK to prepare for effective research data management and to understand more about how the DCC can help. Registration is now open for the sixth DCC Roadshow which is being organised in conjunction with Cambridge Library and will take place from 9 – 11 November 2011 at Cambridge.
Full details of the Roadshow and how to register are available in a news feature on the UKOLN Web site.
IMPACT Project Final Conference
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011Practitioners interested in Digitisation and OCR are reminded that some places remain for the the IMPACT Project Final Conference which will take place on 24 – 25 October 2011 at the British Library, London. Full details are available from the UKOLN Web site.