At the close of another successful International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC11), a range of resources arising from the Conference have been made available on the Digital Curation Centre Web site, including, among others, presentations, posters, videos and tweets (hash tag #idcc11).
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IDCC11 Releases Range of Resources
Friday, December 9th, 2011IDCC 11: Further Interviews with Conference Speakers
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011As part of its preparations for the 7th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC 11), the Digital Curation Centre has arranged a series of interviews with the main speakers at the Conference. In addition to the interview with Ewan McIntosh announced last week, we would wish to draw your attention to three further interviews with:
- David Lynn, Head of Strategic Planning and Policy at the Wellcome Trust
- Mark Hahnel from FigShare, Digital Science
- Victoria Stodden, Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics at the University of Columbia
who all share their views on the key issues surrounding the Conference.
The 7th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC 11) takes place next week, so don’t forget to book your place both for the main event and the pre- and post-conference workshops. The IDCC 11 Conference begins on Tuesday 6 December at the Marriott Royal Hotel, Bristol.
IDCC11 Preview: An Interview with Ewan McIntosh
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011The 7th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC 11) is now just 2 weeks away so don’t forget to book your place both for the main event and the pre- and post-conference workshops.
As a preview to the Conference, the Digital Curation Centre is releasing a series of short interviews with the main conference speakers. The first interview is with the opening keynote speaker Ewan McIntosh, the CEO of NoTosh, in which he gives insights into some of the current issues and a taster about what to expect when Ewan takes a look at public data opportunities as he opens the first day of IDCC 11 on Tuesday 6 December at the Marriott Royal Hotel, Bristol.
UKOLN Seminar: Postponed
Monday, November 21st, 2011The UKOLN Seminar entitled Research and the Web Archive, scheduled for Friday 25 November 2011, has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. UKOLN News will advise when this event can be re-scheduled.
Vice Chancellor Welcomes IDCC Back to the South-West
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011The International Digital Curation Conference, launched seven years ago in Bath, is returning to the South-West from 6 to 7 December 2011 with a two-day event taking place in Bristol. As major funders of research increasingly require grant applicants to submit data management plans, and with successful grant holders held accountable for the stewardship of often irreplaceable digital resources, universities are under increasing pressure to improve the data management techniques of research staff.
Now in its seventh year, the International Digital Curation Conference will give people involved in data creation and management an opportunity to get together with like-minded data practitioners to discuss policy and practice. The event will be opened with a pre-conference drinks reception and welcome address from Professor Glynis Breakwell, Vice Chancellor of the University of Bath, on 5 December at the SS Great Britain.
Professor Breakwell said: “Digital curation is becoming an increasingly important issue for universities. There is a requirement for the HE sector to adapt its infrastructure to support the management of data and to equip data practitioners with the skills they need to fulfil their stewardship obligations.”
The Vice Chancellor, who has recently witnessed the award to Bath by The Sunday Times of “University of the Year”, went on to say, “I am pleased to be welcoming the International Digital Curation Conference, launched for the first time seven years ago in Bath, back to the South-West. I am sure the event will be extremely informative and contribute to the sector’s continued progress in digital data management.”
The programme will include invited speakers in plenary sessions, together with an interactive afternoon during which posters, demonstrations, a symposium and informal meetings will take place. There will also be presentations and discussion about peer-reviewed papers covering all types of digital curation research and scholarship. The conference, which is being organised by UKOLN as part of its partnership with the DCC, will take place at the Marriott Royal Hotel in Bristol. A full programme and registration details are available on the Digital Curation Centre Web site.
DevCSI Life Sciences Hackdays
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011Another free DevCSI event, DevCSI Life Sciences Hackdays, will take place over 6-7 December 2011 in London.
This event is being organized by:
- Developer Community Supporting Innovation Project (DevCSI)
- Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS)
- Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF, Open Science Working Group)
The event will be suitable for:
- Researchers in the Life Sciences
- Software developers in the Life Sciences
- Software developers / researchers developing Semantic Web Applications / Tools / Mashups / Visualisations from the Life Sciences and other domains
- Anyone interested in developing and using Open Science tools particularly in the Life Sciences
- Those offering support for using datasets, APIs and tools to be used for the delegates
The event will bring together delegates from the SWAT4LS workshop and tutorials (taking place 8-9 December 2011) and researchers, developers and anyone else interested in the Life Sciences to work together in teams or individually to use and enhance existing Open Science semantic web applications and tools – and possibly develop new ones.
Some ideas already being floated are in Malaria, Cancer and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) research.
For more information and for booking, please refer to the event’s page on the UKOLN Web site.
7th International Digital Curation Conference: Register Now
Tuesday, October 25th, 20117th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC11):
Public? Private? Personal? navigating the open data landscape
Marriott Royal Hotel
Bristol
UK
5-8 December 2011
Registration for IDCC11 is now open.
Register before 15 November to take advantage of the current conference registration fee and a special institutional discount. You can also take your pick from the programme of pre- and post-conference workshops. Many of the workshops are free and all have limited availability - register now to avoid disappointment!
Launch of Patients Participate! Findings
Monday, October 17th, 2011The JISC-funded Patients Participate! Project releases the findings of a 7-month feasiblity study during a ‘TalkScience’ event, chaired by Tracey Brown of the charitable trust Sense about Science, at the British Library on Tuesday 18 October 2011. More information about the launch of these findings on ‘Bridging the Gap between Information Access and Understanding’ can be found in the event’s press release and on the Patients! Participate Web site.
IMPACT/myGrid Hackathon
Friday, October 7th, 2011Bookings are now open for a free 2-day developer workshop/hackathon which aims to encourage take-up and further development of tools developed by the IMPACT Project. The workshop is intended for developers and implementers. It will allow them to take a closer look at the tools available and investigate new solutions and features that could be developed for the benefit of the wider community.
Full details including how to book your place are available in a news feature on the UKOLN Web site.
Registration Opens for DCC Cambridge Roadshow
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011The UK Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is running a series of free inter-linked regional workshops designed to support institutional research data management planning and training. These DCC Roadshows are being produced to allow every institution in the UK to prepare for effective research data management and to understand more about how the DCC can help. Registration is now open for the sixth DCC Roadshow which is being organised in conjunction with Cambridge Library and will take place from 9 – 11 November 2011 at Cambridge.
Full details of the Roadshow and how to register are available in a news feature on the UKOLN Web site.