Alex Ball will be giving a presentation entitled KIM, ERIM and the Silo of Doom at a Digital Preservation Coalition workshop
on Computer-aided Design, to be held at the British Library Centre for Conservation on Friday 16 July 2010.
Archive for the ‘Digital Curation Centre’ Category
Enabling Research Data Management at the Coalface
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010Liz 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.
Mind the Gap: Reflections on Data Policies and Practice
Friday, July 2nd, 2010Liz 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.
IDCC10: Call for Papers
Monday, June 28th, 2010Seven Steps for Libraries in the Data Decade
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010Liz 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.
Open Science at Genome Scale in Survive or Thrive
Monday, June 14th, 2010Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, UK Digital Curation Centre, gave a presentation at the recent Survive or Thrive Workshop in Manchester, June 2010, entitled Open Science at Genome Scale. Her presentation addressed the theme of the workshop, Making the most of your digital content, by considering the recent developments in Open Science and genomic data and then by examining the new challenges of the data deluge in respect of large-scale data storage and other emerging trends. Her slides from this presentation are now available.
Open Science Report Invites Comments
Friday, June 11th, 2010The Open Science at Web-Scale Report by Dr Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director of the Digital Curation Centre, was commissioned by JISC and published in November 2009 by UKOLN/Digital Curation Centre. This consultative document explores aspects of open data and open science and how institutions might respond to these developing trends. It is now available for comment on WriteToReply, and feedback from interested practitioners would be very welcome.
IDCC10 Programme Now Available
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has recently published the draft programme for the 6th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC10)to be held over 6 – 8 December 2010 at the Chicago Mart Plaza, Chicago, USA. The theme of the Conference this year will be Participation and Practice: Growing the Curation Community through the Data Decade. The Conference will be presented jointly by the Digital Curation Centre, UK and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and in partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). The first day of the conference will look at how data curation practices are evolving and spreading throughout the disciplines and what institutional structures and communities are needed to help support these developments. On the second day papers will be presented in two tracks of themed parallel sessions: a Research Track, with papers presenting research results, and a Practice Track, with papers describing experiences with tools and practices.
Open Science in the Data Decade
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010Dr Liz Lyon, UKOLN Director and Associate Director of the Digital Curation Centre, University of Bath, explores some of the opportunities and challenges of a data-driven world in a short article Open Science in the data decade in the latest issue of Central Government magazine. She describes aspects of open data including consumer-sharing of personal genomic information and citizen science, and contrasts this with the relatively closed data from much publicly funded research. Harnessing the capacity of the crowd in curating data and incentivising contributions through new credit frameworks are referenced. The activities of the JISC-funded Digital Curation Centre in providing advocacy, good practice guidance and community training are highlighted, together with potential new data informatics roles for the 21st century. Liz is also author of the consultative report Open Science at Web-Scale: Optimising Participation and Predictive Potential.