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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Seven Steps for Libraries in the Data Decade
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010JISC/CNI Meeting 2010
Monday, June 14th, 2010The 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.
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.
Bookings Now Open for IWMW 2010
Thursday, May 6th, 2010Bookings are now open for Institutional Web Management Workshop 2010 to be held from Monday 12 to Wednesday 14 July 2010 at the University of Sheffield. The cost is £350 for the 3-day event. The price includes two nights ensuite accommodation, all food and materials included. You will need to choose your parallel sessions from the workshop programme and the session abstracts when booking.
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.
Winner of John M Slatin Award at W4A 2010
Thursday, April 29th, 2010Brian Kelly was the lead author of a paper entitled Developing Countries; Developing Experiences: Approaches to Accessibility for the Real World which received the John M Slatin award for the Best Communications Paper at the 7th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A) Conference held in Raleigh, North Carolina. Further information is available.