Julian 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.
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Mashed Library 2010 – Chips and Mash
Monday, July 19th, 2010Enabling Research Data Management at the Coalface
Monday, July 12th, 2010Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, UK Digital Curation Centre gave a presentation entitled UK Digital Curation Centre: enabling research data management at the coalface on the first day of the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2010 held in Redmond, Washington, USA. Slides from her presentation are now 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.
KIM, ERIM and the Silo of Doom
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010Alex 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.
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.
Two Digital Preservation Papers at iPRES2010
Thursday, July 1st, 2010Brian Kelly and Marieke Guy of UKOLN have received notification that two papers have been accepted by the 7th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES2010). One paper considers the challenges of archiving professional blogs which are hosted by blog platforms in the Cloud. The second paper describes the technical and policy issues related to the archiving of Twitter posts (tweets) which are being addressed by the JISC-funded development of the Twapper Keeper service.
Seven 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.
JISC/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.