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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, DCC will be contributing to a session on The Challenge of Large Data: Dataset Citation, Curation, and Management
at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2010 to be held in Redmond, Washington, USA over 12-13 July 2010. The event will bring together more than 400 thought leaders from academia, government, and Microsoft to reflect on how current computing disciplines open new opportunities for research and development. Liz will be speaking on behalf of the UK Digital Curation Centre (DCC) which is providing advocacy, guidance and tools for research data management to the UK Higher Education community, as well as running a portfolio of R&D projects to understand data curation challenges at the coalface. Her presentation, entitled UK Digital Curation Centre: Enabling research data management at the coalface, will look at three DCC data exemplars:
- Data citation of complex predictive network models of disease;
- Crystallography data flows across institutional borders from laboratory to synchrotron; and
- Emerging Data Management Planning tools for institutions and faculty.
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, recently gave a presentation at the annual JISC/CNI Meeting held in the Carlton Hotel, Edinburgh. Entitled Mind the Gap: Reflections on Data Policies and Practice, her talk explored open science and data policies from an institutional perspective and focused in particular on the perceived gaps between policy and practice. She also provided snapshots of both current practice and future data policy challenges, and described progress with DCC Data Management Planning tools and guidance, to help researchers manage their data more effectively. Her presentation is now available.
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Part of the Open Repositories Conference in Madrid over 6-9 July 2010 will be a series of Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions to offer delegates with similar interests the opportunity to discuss a particular topic informally. One such session on Wednesday 7 July at 15:45 – 16:45 will be facilitated by Stephanie Taylor of UKOLN to host the first meeting of The Metadata Forum. The Metadata Forum is a new initiative, run by UKOLN at the University of Bath and funded by JISC. It is open to anyone with an interest in metadata, from novice to expert, and anyone in between who has to deal with metadata as part of their day-to-day work. The Forum aims to:
- identify knowledge gaps in the area of metadata within the UK HE community, and fill those gaps
- answer questions on the practical application of metadata in the workplace
- bring together practitioners at every level of experience to discuss and share their metadata experiences
It is hoped that delegates attending this BoF will bring along their metadata hopes, dreams and fears to share at the Forum launch! Regular updates on the activities and outputs of the Forum can be found at the Metadata Forum Blog.
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
The 6th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC10), to be held in Chicago, USA over 6 – 8 December 2010, has issued a Call for Papers. Details of the Call, the draft programme and keynote speakers are now available.
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, Digital Curation Centre, has contributed to the theme Cultural and organization initiatives that meet the challenges of e-Science at the 31st IATUL (International Association of Technological University Libraries) Conference. Her presentation entitled Acting as Advocate? Seven steps for libraries in the data decade is now available.
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
The JISC/CNI Meeting 2010 planned by JISC and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) will take place over 1-2 July 2010 and will be held at the Barcelo Carlton Hotel, Edinburgh. The conference will be organised by UKOLN and will bring together experts from the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom. The conference theme this year is Managing Data in Difficult Times: policies, strategies, technologies and infrastructure to manage research and teaching data in a fast changing technological and economic environment. Topics for sessions include Cloud Computing, Innovation in Learning and Teaching, Open Data Policies, Shared Services, Repositories, Digital Content and Institutional Planning, Resource Discovery, Digital Preservation and e-Science. It is possible to book online.
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Friday, May 28th, 2010
Ariadne Issue 63 was published recently with main articles on a range of topics from interoperability to preferred file formats for acquisition to access management and developments in archives, and more. See the full contents.
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