Brian Kelly has been invited to give a seminar entitled What Can We Learn from Amplified Events? at the University of Girona
. The seminar will be held on Friday 3 September 2010 in the Casademont Building, Science and Technology Park, Girona, Catalonia, Spain. A blog post about the seminar is available.
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What Can We Learn from Amplified Events?
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010DCC Roadshow 2010 – 2011
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010The Digital Curation Centre would like to announce the launch of the first DCC Roadshow. Registration will open in September 2010.
Practical Metadata for Repository Administrators
Monday, August 16th, 2010Stephanie Taylor of UKOLN gave a short presentation on the basics of metadata, followed by a workshop session on the practical application of structured metadata and collaborative tagging within institutional repositories, at the RSP Workshop for Repository Administrators. The event was held at Oxford University on 11 August 2010. Slides are available via the RSP website.
KIM, ERIM and the Silo of Doom
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010Alex Ball of UKOLN and the UK Digital Curation Centre gave a presentation entitled ‘KIM, ERIM and the Silo of Doom: lessons from two long-lived data projects’ at the DPC event ‘Designed to Last: Computer-Aided Design’, held at the British Library Centre for Conservation on 16 July 2010. Both the slides and a script for his presentation are now available.
Mashed Library 2010 – Chips and Mash
Monday, July 19th, 2010Julian Cheal of UKOLN will be giving a lightning talk as part of the Mashed Library 2010 – Chips and Mash programme offered at Mashed Library 2010, which will be held at Huddersfield University on 30 July 2010, on a few uses of RFID readers and Library data. The talk will mainly comprise demonstrations of some RFID code Julian has written.
Guide to Web Preservation Launch at the Opening of IWMW2010
Monday, July 12th, 2010The Guide to Web Preservation published by the JISC-funded Preservation of Web Resources (JISC-PoWR) Project run by UKOLN and the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) has been launched at the Institutional Web Managers Workshop (IWMW2010). Further details are available.
Presentation on Supporting Technical Innovation in the UK
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Paul Walk, Deputy Director, UKOLN, gave a presentation at the recent JISC/CNI meeting in Edinburgh where he described a UKOLN project Repositories UK to illustrate an approach the organisation has taken to fulfilling its role as one of JISC’s Innovation Support Centres. Paul’s presentation slides are now available.
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.