The joint University of Bath- and UKOLN-based Research360 Project is now fully up and running.
Research360 is one of a number of projects being funded through the JISC Managing Research Data Programme. It is an institutional project designed to pilot policies, infrastructure and training resources to provide high-quality support for research. Further details are available from a news feature on the UKOLN Web site.
Applications for Dev8D 2012 are coming close to capacity , but there are still a few places left. So, if you want to come, you will need to make your booking now.
This year, more than ever, the goal of Dev8D is to tool up delegates with skills in essential and emerging technologies for the coming year, and in a way that is practical and fun. There will be sessions for:
HTML 5
Programming in Python
Creating Moodle Plugins
Working with research data
Git version control and source code management
Understanding and using Linked Data
Using Redis
JavaScript and JQuery
Writing effective Moodle plug-ins
Making your web applications accessibility friendly
Coffee Script
Perl
Google Apps Scripting
and too many more to name…
Participants will also have the opportunity to interact with cool technologies like 3D printers and multi-touch tables and form their own sessions in our larger than ever ‘Pushing Ideas Further’ sessions. Bring your technical problems along and work through them with experts in the sector.
You can see more details and register for the event on the Dev8D Web site. The Dev8D Team hopes to see you there.
UKOLN will host meetings in Bath on the the Common European Research Information Format (CERIF) in February 2012 as a means of supporting better understanding of the use and benefits of this model to the UK Higher Education community. A news feature on CERIF and these meetings is available on the UKOLN Web site.
The Community Capability Model for Data Intensive Research Project (led by UKOLN and funded by Microsoft) is holding a workshop in Melbourne, Australia on 10 February 2012 to continue developing the model in consultation with the community. Further information is available from the UKOLN Events Web site. Registration is now open.
UKOLN currently has a vacancy for a national coordinator to support the engagement of the UK Higher Education sector in the implementation of the Common European Research Information Format (CERIF).
Full details of this vacancy are now available on the University of Bath ‘Jobs’ site.
UKOLN is hosting a series of meetings based on CERIF, the Common European Research Information Format, in co-operation with euroCRIS and JISC. The first is a CERIF tutorial and UK data surgery, to be held on 9 February 2012, followed by euroCRIS task group meetings on 10 February, both in the city of Bath. Participation is open, and all those involved in research information management are strongly encouraged to take the opportunity to strengthen their understanding of CERIF and explore real-life data scenarios, as well as to contribute UK experience to related euroCRIS task groups.
We are seeking to recruit a Data Scientist to work at UKOLN, to contribute to the new JISC-funded Research360 Project, which will begin to implement institutional research data management infrastructure at the University of Bath.
The post requires a good knowledge of the digital curation and preservation community, together with significant experience in data informatics or provision of data informatics advice and guidance. Applicants should have a demonstrable technical understanding of metadata requirements, data standards, formats and identifiers in particular disciplines or domains for research data management good practice. Applicants will also have the ability to rapidly acquire expertise in curation tools and to quickly develop effective working relationships with a wide range of academic and support staff.
This full-time position is part of the integrated Informatics Research Group and Digital Curation Centre (DCC) team at UKOLN. Informal enquiries should be made to:
Dr Liz Lyon
Director
UKOLN
tel: +44 (0)1225 386580
or email E.J.Lyon@bath.ac.uk
Please see the full job description and person specification for this vacancy, along with the application form and further details, at this Web address:
http://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.aspx?ref=BB803
An item entitled Lay summaries could help public understand health research on the Patients Participate! Project appeared recently in the ‘Industry Trends’ section of the online publication Research Information. The publication reports that the lay summaries produced alongside every health-related research article would bring about greater understanding among the general public, as indicated in the findings of the project. Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN which works with the British Library and the Association of Medical Research Charities on the project, commented to Research Information on the value of the Patients Participate! Guide to researchers in making their output more approachable to patients and public alike.
Research Information is also a bi-monthly printed full-colour publication produced by Europa Science Ltd, a UK-based company which also publishes four other scientific and technical titles.
Another free DevCSI event, DevCSI Life Sciences Hackdays, will take place over 6-7 December 2011 in London.
This event is being organized by:
The event will be suitable for:
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.
The 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.