The International Journal of Digital Curation, published by the Digital Curation Centre and produced at UKOLN has just published Volume 7, No 1 (2012) which includes an article by Liz Lyon, DCC Associate Director. In her article The Informatics Transform: Re-engineering Libraries for the Data Decade, Liz explains how library staff may need to supplement their existing skills in the light of the changes in the way scientific research is being conducted. With the advent of data-intensive research and a plethora of Web technologies, the landscape in which HE libraries will operate in the current decade is bound to change also. Liz asks how will library services, and also LIS schools and curricula, adapt? She considers how the position of data informaticians will alter, provides a set of assertions on which enhancements in recruitment practice may be based, and offers a view of the new role of advocacy in scholarly communication practice that libraries may wish to adopt.
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Re-engineering Libraries for the Data Decade
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012Last Chance: Northwest England DCC Roadshow
Thursday, March 8th, 2012Registration for the free DCC Roadshow on Data Management to be held in the Northwest of England over 20-21 March 2012 will close soon. The Roadshow is organised with The Library, University of Salford and will take place at the Clifford Whitworth Building, University of Salford.
DCC Roadshows are designed to support every institution in the UK to prepare for effective research data management and to understand more about how the Digital Curation Centre can help. Further information about the DCC Roadshows is available from the DCC Web site.
Data Management Plans at the DCC East Midlands Roadshow
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012Monica Duke of UKOLN will give a presentation on Data Management Plans at the DCC East Midlands Roadshow being held at the University of Loughborough. She will consider research funder requirements and data management planning in terms of what funders expect, how to write a Data Management Plan, and what DMP Online can offer.
Dealing with Very Personal Data
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011Professor Adam Hedgecoe, Associate Director CESAGEN and Dr Liz Lyon, Associate Director, Digital Curation Centre, gave a presentation to the 7th DCC Symposium entitled Share your genome? Dealing with very personal data. The Symposium, chaired by Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, CNI, formed part of the first day’s programme of the 7th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC11). Slides from this presentation are now available on the UKOLN Web site.
Introducing the Community Capability Model Project
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, gave a number of presentations during the recent 7th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC11). One was to a pre-conference workshop in order to introduce the Community Capability Model Project. Slides from this presentation are now available on the UKOLN Web site.
Progress in the Data Citation Community
Monday, December 12th, 2011Writing in Issue 40, December 2011 of the DPC/DCC publication What’s New, Monica Duke of UKOLN and DCC reviews some of the developments and events which have brought together practitioners with an interest in scholarly communication, data citation and data publishing. In her editorial “The Data Citation Community Gathers Pace“, she suggests that a community is now forming and gathering pace.
IDCC11 Releases Range of Resources
Friday, December 9th, 2011At the close of another successful International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC11), a range of resources arising from the Conference have been made available on the Digital Curation Centre Web site, including, among others, presentations, posters, videos and tweets (hash tag #idcc11).
IDCC 11: Further Interviews with Conference Speakers
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011As part of its preparations for the 7th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC 11), the Digital Curation Centre has arranged a series of interviews with the main speakers at the Conference. In addition to the interview with Ewan McIntosh announced last week, we would wish to draw your attention to three further interviews with:
- David Lynn, Head of Strategic Planning and Policy at the Wellcome Trust
- Mark Hahnel from FigShare, Digital Science
- Victoria Stodden, Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics at the University of Columbia
who all share their views on the key issues surrounding the Conference.
The 7th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC 11) takes place next week, so don’t forget to book your place both for the main event and the pre- and post-conference workshops. The IDCC 11 Conference begins on Tuesday 6 December at the Marriott Royal Hotel, Bristol.
IDCC11 Preview: An Interview with Ewan McIntosh
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011The 7th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC 11) is now just 2 weeks away so don’t forget to book your place both for the main event and the pre- and post-conference workshops.
As a preview to the Conference, the Digital Curation Centre is releasing a series of short interviews with the main conference speakers. The first interview is with the opening keynote speaker Ewan McIntosh, the CEO of NoTosh, in which he gives insights into some of the current issues and a taster about what to expect when Ewan takes a look at public data opportunities as he opens the first day of IDCC 11 on Tuesday 6 December at the Marriott Royal Hotel, Bristol.
Data Management at the Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011Alex Ball of UKOLN and the UK Digital Curation Centre (DCC) will be speaking at a breakout session on data management at the 22nd Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop. He will provide an overview of the tools and support offered by the DCC for research data management, and demonstrate how data management plans can be designed using the DMP Online service.