Archive for August, 2012

Functional and Architectural Requirements for Metadata

Thursday, August 30th, 2012

Jian Qin of Syracuse University will be presenting a paper co-authored by herself, Alex Ball of UKOLN and Jane Greenberg of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, at the 2012 DCMI International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2012). In the paper, entitled Functional and Architectural Requirements for Metadata: Supporting Discovery and Management of Scientific Data, Qin, Ball and Greenberg define systems requirements for metadata supporting the discovery and management of scientific data across multiple domains.

DC-2012 takes place on 3-7 September 2012 in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia and forms part of Knowledge Technology Week 2012.

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Data Management Initiatives at IFLA

Monday, August 13th, 2012

Marieke Guy, Research Officer at the Digital Curation Centre, UKOLN will be co-presenting with Maggie Pickton of the University of Northampton and Sarah Jones, Digital Curation Centre at HATII, University of Glasgow, during Conference Session 116, “The role of libraries in data curation, access and preservation: an international perspective” at IFLA 2012 in Helsinki. Their presentation, to be given on the morning of 14 August 2012, is entitled Leading from the library: data management initiatives at the University of Northampton. An abstract and further details are available in pdf format.

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Ariadne Issue 69 Published

Friday, August 3rd, 2012

Ariadne Issue 69 has been published with a range of features, event reports and reviews, whose content is now far more accessible since the advent of the new Ariadne platform.  Further information on work in this area as well as a report on the recent JISC RIM CERIF Workshop run by UKOLN is available from a post on the Innovation Support Centre site.   Additionally, further information is available on event reports by UKOLN staff from a post on the Informatics Research Group site.  For full information on the main features offered in the new issue, please see the news feature on the UKOLN Web site.

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