The Computer Weekly Social Media Awards confirmed that UK Web Focus Blog is runner-up in ‘IT Professional Blogger of the Year‘ category for 2011.
UK Web Focus has been published by Brian Kelly since November 2006. In his 1,000th post on this blog published earlier today, Brian announced this new award and highlighted the importance of openness in the sector as exemplified by this blog over its years of publication.
As part of its preparations for the 7th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC 11), the Digital Curation Centre has arranged a series of interviews with the main speakers at the Conference. In addition to the interview with Ewan McIntosh announced last week, we would wish to draw your attention to three further interviews with:
who all share their views on the key issues surrounding the Conference.
The 7th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC 11) takes place next week, so don’t forget to book your place both for the main event and the pre- and post-conference workshops. The IDCC 11 Conference begins on Tuesday 6 December at the Marriott Royal Hotel, Bristol.
The 7th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC 11) is now just 2 weeks away so don’t forget to book your place both for the main event and the pre- and post-conference workshops.
As a preview to the Conference, the Digital Curation Centre is releasing a series of short interviews with the main conference speakers. The first interview is with the opening keynote speaker Ewan McIntosh, the CEO of NoTosh, in which he gives insights into some of the current issues and a taster about what to expect when Ewan takes a look at public data opportunities as he opens the first day of IDCC 11 on Tuesday 6 December at the Marriott Royal Hotel, Bristol.
Alex Ball of UKOLN and the UK Digital Curation Centre (DCC) will be speaking at a breakout session on data management at the 22nd Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop. He will provide an overview of the tools and support offered by the DCC for research data management, and demonstrate how data management plans can be designed using the DMP Online service.
The UKOLN Seminar entitled Research and the Web Archive, scheduled for Friday 25 November 2011, has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. UKOLN News will advise when this event can be re-scheduled.
The UK Web Focus blog has been short-listed for the IT Professional blogger of the year category of the Computer Weekly Social Media Awards.
As described in a post about the award, the blog is the only short-listed entry published by someone working in the Higher Education sector.
The UK Web Focus blog is provided by Brian Kelly. As described in a post about the fifth anniversary of the blog, it was launched on 1 November 2006 and there have now been 994 posts published.
If you would like to vote for this blog you should visit the Computer Weekly Social Media Awards 2011 page. The award winners will be announced on Tuesday 29 November so there may be an opportunity for a celebratory 1,000th post!
Note that voting ends on Friday 25 November.
The International Digital Curation Conference, launched seven years ago in Bath, is returning to the South-West from 6 to 7 December 2011 with a two-day event taking place in Bristol. As major funders of research increasingly require grant applicants to submit data management plans, and with successful grant holders held accountable for the stewardship of often irreplaceable digital resources, universities are under increasing pressure to improve the data management techniques of research staff.
Now in its seventh year, the International Digital Curation Conference will give people involved in data creation and management an opportunity to get together with like-minded data practitioners to discuss policy and practice. The event will be opened with a pre-conference drinks reception and welcome address from Professor Glynis Breakwell, Vice Chancellor of the University of Bath, on 5 December at the SS Great Britain.
Professor Breakwell said: “Digital curation is becoming an increasingly important issue for universities. There is a requirement for the HE sector to adapt its infrastructure to support the management of data and to equip data practitioners with the skills they need to fulfil their stewardship obligations.”
The Vice Chancellor, who has recently witnessed the award to Bath by The Sunday Times of “University of the Year”, went on to say, “I am pleased to be welcoming the International Digital Curation Conference, launched for the first time seven years ago in Bath, back to the South-West. I am sure the event will be extremely informative and contribute to the sector’s continued progress in digital data management.”
The programme will include invited speakers in plenary sessions, together with an interactive afternoon during which posters, demonstrations, a symposium and informal meetings will take place. There will also be presentations and discussion about peer-reviewed papers covering all types of digital curation research and scholarship. The conference, which is being organised by UKOLN as part of its partnership with the DCC, will take place at the Marriott Royal Hotel in Bristol. A full programme and registration details are available on the Digital Curation Centre Web site.
We are seeking to recruit a Data Scientist to work at UKOLN, to contribute to the new JISC-funded Research360 Project, which will begin to implement institutional research data management infrastructure at the University of Bath.
The post requires a good knowledge of the digital curation and preservation community, together with significant experience in data informatics or provision of data informatics advice and guidance. Applicants should have a demonstrable technical understanding of metadata requirements, data standards, formats and identifiers in particular disciplines or domains for research data management good practice. Applicants will also have the ability to rapidly acquire expertise in curation tools and to quickly develop effective working relationships with a wide range of academic and support staff.
This full-time position is part of the integrated Informatics Research Group and Digital Curation Centre (DCC) team at UKOLN. Informal enquiries should be made to:
Dr Liz Lyon
Director
UKOLN
tel: +44 (0)1225 386580
or email E.J.Lyon@bath.ac.uk
Please see the full job description and person specification for this vacancy, along with the application form and further details, at this Web address:
http://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.aspx?ref=BB803
The recently released issue of UKOLN Update, a monthly newsletter, provides an overview of UKOLN work during October 2011. It highlights key news features, blog posts, presentations, and events related to staff activities.
Most frequently used words in UKOLN blogs, October 2011
An item entitled Lay summaries could help public understand health research on the Patients Participate! Project appeared recently in the ‘Industry Trends’ section of the online publication Research Information. The publication reports that the lay summaries produced alongside every health-related research article would bring about greater understanding among the general public, as indicated in the findings of the project. Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN which works with the British Library and the Association of Medical Research Charities on the project, commented to Research Information on the value of the Patients Participate! Guide to researchers in making their output more approachable to patients and public alike.
Research Information is also a bi-monthly printed full-colour publication produced by Europa Science Ltd, a UK-based company which also publishes four other scientific and technical titles.