Emma Tonkin of UKOLN and Heather D. Pfeiffer of New Mexico State University will give a paper entitled Data-driven or background knowledge ontology development at the 7th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM-2010
) to be held over 22-23 October 2010 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Ontology Development at ICKM-2010
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010Building Blocks of Metadata
Friday, October 15th, 2010Emma Tonkin and Andrew Hewson of UKOLN will give a paper entitled Building blocks of metadata in the session Principles and Innovations on 21 October 2010 at the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2010). This paper discusses a means of approaching the creation of new metadata schemas or application profiles – without making it seem too much like hard work. Further details are available.
DC-2010: Registry Community and Task Group Meeting
Thursday, October 14th, 2010At the forthcoming Dublin Core Conference (DC-2010), to be held 20-22 October 2010 in Pittsburgh, USA, there will be a meeting of the DCMI Registry Community and Task Group. It will take place on on Wednesday 20 October, 9:00am – 12:30pm. The meeting’s agenda is already available.
What Metadata Is Really Useful?
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010Stephanie Taylor of UKOLN will be speaking about the work of the Metadata Forum at the CETIS event What metadata is really useful? to be held in London on 18 October 2010. The event will focus on what data we have (or could acquire) to answer the question of what metadata is really required to support the discovery, selection, use and management of educational resources. More information about the Metadata Forum is available.
Learning Repositories in Agriculture Food & Environment (AgLR 2010)
Thursday, October 7th, 2010Stephanie Taylor of UKOLN will be participating in the e-conference Learning Repositories in Agriculture Food & Environment: Quality Promises and Considerations in Learning Repositories and Portals (AgLR 2010) which takes place 6-20 October 2010. The e-conference is hosted by the Agricultural Learning Repositories Task Force (AgLR-TF) and the e-Agriculture Community. As part of her work with the Metadata Forum, Stephanie will be joint moderator, along with Jackie Wickham of the Repository Support Project (RSP), of two discussions about the use of metadata in learning repositories. The e-conference is open to anyone with an interest in this area. Details on how to join in and further information on the topics to be discussed are available.
“To promote open education is needed more interaction”
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010Brian Kelly has been featured in an interview published in El Punt, an online journal published in Girona, Catalonia, Spain. The interview took place when Brian gave a seminar on What Can We Learn From Amplified Events? at the University of Girona on 3 September 2010. For those who do not understand the Catalan language an English language version is available which is produced by the Google Translate service. Although the quality of the translation is less than ideal, it does help to convey the underlying message.
UK e-Science AHM 2010 Considers New Opportunities on the Other Side of the Chasm
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010The 9th UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM 2010), with the theme of e-Science: novel research, new science and enduring impact, is being held at the City Hall, Cardiff, over 13-16 September 2010. The closing panel of the conference will be a discussion of New Opportunities on the Other Side of the Chasm. It will be held in the Council Chamber at 10.45am Thursday 16 September following a short presentation on Digital Social Research by Professor David De Roure, Oxford e-Research Centre. The panellists are Professor Mark Birkin, GENeSIS Project, Dr Liz Lyon, UKOLN, Professor Gary Olson, University of Michigan and Dr Alex Voss, NCeSS.
Supporting Research Data Management at ECDL 2010
Monday, September 6th, 2010Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, Digital Curation Centre, will facilitate the panel on Developing Services to Support Research Data Management and Sharing during ECDL 2010 in Glasgow. The subject of the panel will be the current gap between the readiness of the current information environment to deal with large amounts of heterogeneous data and the disposition of academics in research institutions to update their practices of data management and curation. The panel will focus on this gap between digital library systems and researchers’ current practice in managing data and will explore appropriate services that can help to bridge it.
Registration for the 6th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) Now Open
Friday, September 3rd, 2010Registration is now open for this year’s International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC). It will take place over 6-8 December in Chicago. The theme of the 2010 conference is Participation and Practice: Growing the Curation Community through the Data Decade. Details on registration and all other aspects are available from the Digital Curation Centre Web site.
Live Video Stream of “What Can We Learn from Amplified Events?”
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010Brian Kelly will be giving a talk entitled What Can We Learn from Amplified Events? on Friday 3 September at the University of Girona. A live video stream of the talk will be available starting at 11.30 BST. Discussions about the talk will take place on Twitter using the #udgamp10 event hashtag.