Archive for November, 2012

Speakers Look Forward to IDCC13

Wednesday, November 28th, 2012

The 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC13) is just around the corner and the DCC has been asking some of the key speakers to preview the event both in terms of their own contribution as well as whom they are most looking forward to hearing. Kevin Ashley, Director of the DCC, has started us off with his perspective on the conference while Anthony Beitz from the Monash eResearch Centre and Kaitlin Thaney from Digital Science give us their insights into some of the current issues.

Registration for the workshops and main conference is still open, so don’t forget to register now to take advantage of the current registration fees and to book for the workshops of your choice. Please note, some are limited in terms of delegate numbers.

Finally the DCC would like to encourage all delegates, speakers, authors, poster and demo presenters to share their attendance via Lanyrd and of course to tweet using the conference hashtag #idcc13

Stakeholder Benefits from Research Data Management

Tuesday, November 27th, 2012

The JISC-funded Research360 Project, managed by UKOLN, has released the summary stakeholder benefits analysis from the Research Data Management (RDM) business case for the University of Bath. The document, entitled Benefits from Research Data Management in Universities for Industry and Not-for-Profit Research Partners, is now available to download. Further information is available from a news feature on the UKOLN Web site.

A Revolution in Open Science

Tuesday, November 27th, 2012

Liz Lyon will be taking part in a panel on open data entitled ‘Reasserting the primacy of data’ during the 10th anniversary conference of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) in Brussels on 30 November 2012. The theme of the special conference is Open Horizons: A Revolution in Open Science.

LERU was founded in 2002 as an association of research-intensive universities sharing the values of high-quality teaching in an environment of internationally competitive research.