Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, gave a keynote presentation entitled “Incremental Change or Revolution? Libraries and the Informatics Transform” at Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2012 at the University of Zadar, Croatia recently. Liz’ slides from this presentation are now available on the UKOLN Web site.
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Incremental Change or Revolution?
Monday, June 25th, 2012Digital Research 2012: Call for Contributions
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012Digital Research 2012 (formally the UK e-Science All-Hands Meeting) is being held in St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, over 10-12 September 2012. It is supported by the eResearch South Consortium, in which UKOLN is a partner.
The goal of the Digital Research 2012 Conference is to showcase today’s digital research practice and innovation, and to set an influential agenda for tomorrow. The Conference theme is the Future of Digital Research and the organisers invite short papers, stories and videos giving your glimpse of “Digital Research in the Future” in (and between) any disciplines. They encourage originality and forward-thinking, and there will be awards for the best-rated submissions.
Further information on the Call for Contributions is available from the Digital Research 2012 Web site.
UKOLN Contribution to the University of Bath’s Roadmap for EPSRC
Monday, June 18th, 2012Liz Lyon and Catherine Pink of the UKOLN Informatics Research Group have authored the University of Bath Roadmap for EPSRC: Compliance with Research Data Management Expectations. Full details are available from a news feature now available on the UKOLN Web site.
The Role of Libraries in Building Capacity and Capability for Data
Thursday, May 31st, 2012Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, gave a presentation entitled Building Capacity and Capability for Data: Requirements, Challenges, Opportunities to the Workshop “Skills and Human Resources for e-Infrastructures within Horizon 2020” which took place on 30 May 2012 in Brussels. Liz’ presentation focused on research data management skills with an emphasis on institutional roles, in particular on those of the library and librarians. Slides from her presentation are now available on the UKOLN Web site.
Partnering for Research Data
Monday, April 30th, 2012Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, will be giving a presentation entitled Partnering for Research Data at the 2nd LIBER International Workshop on Digital Preservation to be held over 7-8 May 2012 in Florence.
The event has been organised by the LIBER Steering Committee for Heritage Collections and Preservation in collaboration with the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale in Florence and the National Library of the Netherlands. The theme of the Workshop this year is Partnerships in curating European digital resources, in recognition of the increasing importance in the current financial situation of creating partnerships to secure long-term access to digital collections. Details of the Workshop are available from the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale Web site.
Open Infrastructures for Open Science
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012The European Commission, in a co-ordinated effort with EU Member states, is investing in different domains of e-Infrastructures to connect researchers, scholars, educators and students through high-speed research networks, to provide access to co-operative computing platforms, to develop world-class supercomputing capacity and support the emergence of a robust platform for access to and preservation of scientific information.
In support of this initiative, a Horizon 2020 consultation event entitled Open Infrastructures for Open Science will take place in Rome over 11-12 April 2012. Its discussions will focus on e-Infrastructures and e-Science in the context of the emerging Digital European Research Area. Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, has been invited to take part in a panel entitled Opening science through e-infrastructures on 11 April 2012 at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
Re-engineering Libraries for the Data Decade
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012The 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.
Re-engineering Libraries for the Data Decade
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012Liz Lyon recently gave a keynote presentation to VALA 2012 in Melbourne. The Conference’s theme this year was eM-powering eFutures, seeking to promote the understanding and use of communication technology in libraries and the related museums, archives and galleries services. In her presentation entitled “The Informatics Transform: Re-engineering Libraries for the Data Decade”, Liz explored how research data are positioned within the wider “Big Data” space and examined the role of libraries and librarians in research data management, highlighting some urgent actions needed to develop essential data informatics skills within the sector.
Slides from Liz’ presentation together with a link to the video footage of her keynote are now available on the UKOLN Web site.
Partnerships in Curating European Digital Resources
Friday, February 3rd, 2012Partnerships in curating European digital resources is the theme of the 2nd LIBER International Workshop on Digital Preservation, which will take place over 7-8 May 2012 in Florence, Italy. Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, will be giving a presentation entitled Partnering for Research Data on the first morning of the Workshop programme.
The Workshop is being organised by the LIBER Steering Committee for Heritage Collections and Preservation in collaboration with the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale in Florence and the National Library of the Netherlands.
The upcoming Workshop theme is something of a response to the unmistakable advice ‘Do not go at this game alone’, which was given to LIBER libraries at the end of the first LIBER workshop on digital preservation in The Hague in 2010. Since then, the Euro crisis and budget cuts have only exacerbated the need to seek partnerships in securing long-term access to digital collections. But with whom can you partner? How does it work? What are the advantages and disadvantages of various forms of partnering?
This workshop will provide an overview of the best-known collaborative initiatives: the stakeholders involved, the basic set-ups, the legal foundations, the business models – and help delegates analyse which options are best suited to their organisation, type of collection and national culture. It will deal with organisational issues, as well as legal, financial and technical issues that will influence their choices. Critical questions will be asked by experts in the field, and there will be plenty of time for delegates to ask their own questions. Lastly, the workshop will showcase a variety of best practices.
The intention is that delegates will go home with a keen understanding of the types of collaborative practices available which will enable them to start discussing long-term preservation policies with their management team.
Details of the programme, registration information and information on hotels can be obtained from the Workshop Web page.
Information about the programme, speakers and content of the workshop may be obtained from Marcel Ras.
For information about the Workshop organisation, you are invited to contact Chiara Cirinnà.
LIDA: Libraries in the Digital Age
Monday, January 30th, 2012Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, has been invited to give a keynote presentation to the Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA 2012) together with Eileen G. Abels, Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Alyssa Goodman and Herbert Van de Sompel. In her presentation entitled Incremental Change or Revolution? Libraries and the Informatics Transform, Liz considers the current position of libraries and their degree of engagement with research data management, scholarly communications and citizen science together with how they might extend their stewardship of data-intensive research.
Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) is a biennial international conference that focuses on the challenging and rapidly evolving nature of libraries and information systems and services. In recognition of today’s dynamic online and mediated technological environment, this year’s conference has chosen ‘CHANGES’ as the title of its theme. LIDA 2012 brings together at the University of Zadar, Croatia, researchers, educators, practitioners, and developers from all over the world in a forum for personal exchanges, discussions, and learning. The Conference will take place over 18–22 June 2012.
The conference will divide into two parts:
Part I: CHANGES in the world of library services: Evolution and innovation (Programme Chair: Marie L. Radford,
(School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University))
Part II:CHANGES in the world of electronic resources: Information and digitization
(Programme chair: Christine L. Borgman, (Department of Information Studies, UCLA))
Further information can be obtained via the Conference Web site or by email.