Archive for the ‘Digital Curation Centre’ Category
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
A paper written by the ERIM Project team has been accepted for presentation at the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED11), to be held over 15-18 August 2011 in Copenhagen. The paper, Data Management Planning in Engineering Design and Manufacturing Research by Mansur Darlington, Alex Ball, Tom Howard, Chris McMahon and Steve Culley, will explain how the project characterised the nature of engineering research data and developed a modelling technique for visualising its context.
The ERIM Project is a JISC-funded collaboration between the Innovative Design and Manufacturing Research Centre at the University of Bath, and UKOLN in its capacity as part of the UK Digital Curation Centre.
Tags: data management, ERIM, paper accepted
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Alex Ball of UKOLN and the DCC will give a presentation on Data Licensing on Day 3 of the 2nd DCC Roadshow being held over 1 – 3 March 2011 in Sheffield. Alex’ session will feature an introduction to data licensing and will provide participants with an awareness of why licensing data is important, the impact licences have on future research, and the potential pitfalls to avoid. The theme of the final day of the Roadshow is Digital Curation 101 Lite: How to Manage Research Data.
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
Liz Lyon will facilitate the opening plenary session entitled Facing the Data Challenge : Institutions, Disciplines, Services and Risks on the second day of the 2nd DCC Roadshow being held over 1 – 3 March 2011 at the Halifax Conference Centre, Sheffield. The theme of the day will be The Research Data Challenge: Developing an Institutional Response and will comprise a series of group work exercises supported by plenary sessions. She will then facilitate the opening plenary of the afternoon programme entitled Building Capacity and Capability in your Institution: Skills, Roles, Resources. The Programme and further information are available from the Digital Curation Centre Web site.
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Monday, February 28th, 2011
Dr Liz Lyon, Associate Director, DCC and Director of UKOLN will speak on The Changing Data Landscape at the beginning of the first day of the 2nd DCC Roadshow to be held over 1 – 3 March 2011 at the Halifax Conference Centre, Sheffield. The theme of this second regional roadshow is Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade while Day One will consider The Research Data Landscape. The Programme and further information are available from the Digital Curation Centre Web site.
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Monday, February 14th, 2011
The UK Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has published the second in its series of How-to Guides: How to License Research Data by Alex Ball of UKOLN and the DCC, in association with JISC Legal. The guide explains why licensing data is important, what licensing options are available to researchers, and how to go about attaching a licence to a dataset. It is designed for principal investigators, researchers, and those who provide access to research data through a data centre, repository or archive.
The guide is available for online reading or download from the DCC Web site.
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Monday, February 7th, 2011
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has announced a £12.5m programme to deliver efficiencies through shared services in cloud computing infrastructure and applications. This new programme, which will be managed by JISC, supports colleges and universities in the innovative use of digital technologies.
A core virtual server infrastructure (a ‘cloud’) will be set up to offer discounted data management and storage services to HE institutions. It will be deployed in data centres starting with a pilot at Eduserv, which will work in collaboration with the Digital Curation Centre.
As a partner in the Digital Curation Centre, UKOLN at the University of Bath is pleased to be contributing to this major new initiative to support research data management, working in partnership with the JISC, JANET and Eduserv. Further information is available from the HEFCE Web site.
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
The UK Digital Curation Centre is running a series of inter-linked regional workshops as part of the DCC Roadshow at the beginning of March 2011. Running over the three days of the Roadshow, free workshops will provide advice and guidance tailored to a range of staff, including PVCs Research, University Librarians, Directors of IT/Computing Services, Repository Managers, Research Support Services and practising researchers on the topic of institutional research data management planning and training. Further details are available from the UKOLN Web Site.
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Thursday, December 9th, 2010
The recently completed 6th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC 2010
) has now released a range of material for viewing. It offers videos of keynotes, interviews with participants and other uploads as well as tweets (#idcc10) which have been aggregated at the Conference’s LIVE! page.
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Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
The DCC recently held its first Regional Roadshow (south west) in Bath. Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, DCC, gave the opening plenary presentation entitled Evolution or revolution? The changing data landscape on the first day of the Roadshow which was devoted to looking at the Research Data Landscape and offered a selection of case studies highlighting different models, approaches and working practice. She also facilitated the participative workshop held on Day 2, which focused on developing institutional strategies for research data management. Liz’ presentation slides are available.
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