Archive for May, 2012

The Role of Libraries in Building Capacity and Capability for Data

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, gave a presentation entitled Building Capacity and Capability for Data: Requirements, Challenges, Opportunities to the Workshop “Skills and Human Resources for e-Infrastructures within Horizon 2020” which took place on 30 May 2012 in Brussels. Liz’ presentation focused on research data management skills with an emphasis on institutional roles, in particular on those of the library and librarians. Slides from her presentation are now available on the UKOLN Web site.

BiblioHack in the Summertime

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

DevCSI, managed by UKOLN, has made an announcement on the Innovation Support Centre blog about the forthcoming BiblioHack event which aims to bring together software developers, project managers, librarians and experts in the area of Open Bibliographic Data.

IDCC13: Dates and Call for Papers

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

The Digital Curation Centre has issued the dates and call for papers of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference 2013. A news feature covering the theme of the conference to be held over 14-16 January 2013 at the Mövenpick Hotel, Amsterdam, is now available on the UKOLN Web site.

Report: Managing Research Data Hack Day

Friday, May 11th, 2012

The Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN has announced publication of an event report on the recent DevCSI Managing Research Data Hack Day held in Manchester.

Ariadne Re-launch: ISC Delivers Enriched Content

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

The Innovation Support Centre has published a blog posting on the appearance of the re-launched Ariadne with particular emphasis on the new features that the ISC has developed to the benefit of readers and authors alike. The post is now available on the Innovation Support Centre Web site.

New JISC Observatory TechWatch Report

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

The JISC Observatory team is pleased to announce the launch of a TechWatch report entitled Delivering Web to Mobile.  Further details are available from a news feature on the UKOLN Web site.

New Ariadne Available

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012

Ariadne Issue 68 has recently been made available on the World Wide Web and its readers will immediately notice it has a completely new look-and-feel. There is a news feature available on the UKOLN Web site.

New Event: Hacking Bibliographic Data

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

DevCSI in co-operation with the Open Biblio Project, Open GLAM and OKFN is seeking expressions of interest from software developers, project managers, librarians and experts in the area of bibliographic data in respect of a free event being planned for 12 – 14 June 2012 in London.

The event will offer anyone with a particular interest in bibliographic data the opportunity to discuss the issues they see as relevant in this area, experiment in a focused way on prototyping systems and even hacking them together. It also intends to encourage people to explore current ways of doing things and consider how they might be improved. It is hoped the event will give participants the chance to form small groups to discuss bibliographic data issues, work on paper and/or real prototypes, datasets and APIs. The event will culminate in a series of presentations from the teams in terms of the work they have carried out.

If you are interested in this area, please email Mahendra Mahey at UKOLN and indicate if you would like to attend. Please let him know of the aspects of bibliographic data in which you are interested, since your responses will influence the planning of the event.