Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, DCC spoke on the SageCite Project and the new Patients Participate! Project at the recent Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress in San Francisco. She gave a presentation entitled Building a data citation demonstrator for bionetwork models which is now available.
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Building a Data Citation Demonstrator for Bionetwork Models
Monday, April 18th, 2011Data Management Planning at ICED11
Thursday, April 14th, 2011A paper written by the ERIM Project team has been accepted for presentation at the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED11), to be held over 15-18 August 2011 in Copenhagen. The paper, Data Management Planning in Engineering Design and Manufacturing Research by Mansur Darlington, Alex Ball, Tom Howard, Chris McMahon and Steve Culley, will explain how the project characterised the nature of engineering research data and developed a modelling technique for visualising its context.
The ERIM Project is a JISC-funded collaboration between the Innovative Design and Manufacturing Research Centre at the University of Bath, and UKOLN in its capacity as part of the UK Digital Curation Centre.
SageCite Attends the Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress 2011
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011Members of the SageCite Project will again attend the Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress which will be held over 15 – 16 April 2011 at the University of California, San Francisco. The Congress is the annual event organised by Sage Bionetworks, collaborators on the SageCite Project. The SageCite Project developed from participation of the project partners in the 2010 event, and this year the project will be back to inform the community of the progress achieved and to be inspired once again by the vision of Sage Bionetworks and the other participants at the Congress. Note also that this event will be streamed.
Liz Lyon Speaking at Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress, San Francisco
Thursday, April 7th, 2011Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, will be speaking on the SageCite Project and the new Patients Participate! Project at the Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress in San Francisco on 15 – 16 April 2011.
The Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress brings together research and industry leaders, policy and IT experts, patient advocates, foundations and governments to work on programs and platforms that will create a disruptive transition in data sharing and public engagement.
Sage Bionetworks and Fora.tv are offering a free live webcast of the Congress platform sessions, allowing anyone to attend the virtual conference:
Date: 15 – 16 April 2011 beginning at 8:00 AM PDT
Webcast URL: http://bit.ly/htNpUR
Please see the Congress Agenda for presentation timings. For more information and background on Sage Bionetworks and the Commons Congress, go to the www.sagecongress.org and www.sagebase.org Web sites.
I2S2 Benefit Use Cases
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011The I2S2 Project is pleased to announce the availability of two benefit use cases.
The Infrastructure for Integration in Structural Sciences (I2S2) Project is identifying requirements for a data-driven research infrastructure in ‘Structural Science’, focusing primarily on the domains of Chemistry and Crystallography. A key aim of I2S2 has been to develop use cases that examine the business processes of research, identify the costs and benefits of the integrated approach proposed by I2S2, and explore perspectives of ‘scale and complexity’ and ‘research discipline’ throughout the data lifecycle. During the course of the project, the complementary but often different perspectives of researchers and central facilities in terms of benefits were also recognised as significant and built into the use cases.
The I2S2 Cost/Benefit Use Case 1 (National Crystallography Service) traverses administrative boundaries between institutions and addresses issues of scale (local lab to mid-range national facility to national Diamond synchrotron) and provides a central service perspective of benefits. I2S2 Cost/Benefit Use Case 2 (Prof Martin Dove, University of Cambridge) applies the approach to Mineral Sciences and interactions between individuals, collaborative research groups and facilities, and provides a researcher’s perspective of benefits.
Each use case forms the source material for the Benefits Case Studies contributed by the project to the Managing Research Data Programme Benefits Synthesis Report.
Data Infrastructure Challenges, I2S2 Project Workshop, 5th May 2011, Leicester
Thursday, March 31st, 2011The Infrastructure for Integration in Structural Sciences (I2S2) Project is pleased to announce a half-day workshop exploring research data management challenges in a range of contexts. This workshop, entitled Data Infrastructure Challenges: Working across Scale, Disciplinary and Institutional Boundaries, will take place on 5 May 2011 at the University of Leicester.
The half-day workshop will examine data integration and interoperability across different degrees of scale (from local laboratory to national data service to large-scale facility such as Diamond and ISIS), data flows between disciplines, and data exchange across and within institutional boundaries. There will be a particular focus on demonstrating the cost-benefits of effective data management and the relevance of different roles within organisations. A programme of expert speakers will share the experiences and outcomes from a range of pioneering JISC-funded projects, followed by panel discussion.
Full programme and registration details can be found on the I2S2 events page.
This workshop is to be co-located with the 6th Research Data Management Forum.
Open Educational Resources Hackday: Fully Booked
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011The Open Educational Resources (OER) Hackday, a two-day event organised by UKOLN and DevCSI over 31 March – 1 April 2011, which will look at hacking content, systems and services for open educational resources, is now fully booked. If you would like to be placed on a waiting list, advice is available on the event’s booking page.
SageCite Participates in JISC MRD International Workshop
Friday, March 25th, 2011The SageCite Project will be participating in the JISC Managing Research Data International Workshop on 28 and 29 March 2011. Sagecite is studying issues related to data citation around data, methods and publication in the domain of bio-informatics. As well as sharing progress with other projects, participants will also be invited to discuss requirements for managing research data, to identify gaps and priorities, and to contribute to shaping the strategic direction of the programme.
Digital Preservation Benefit Analysis Tools
Monday, March 21st, 2011UKOLN is pleased to announce the launch of a new project focusing on development of a digital preservation benefits analysis toolset.
The Digital Preservation Benefit Analysis Tools Project is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and will run from 1 February to 31 July 2011.
The project aims to test, review and promote combined use of the Keeping Research Data Safe (KRDS) Benefits Taxonomy and the Value Chain and Impact Analysis tool first applied in the I2S2 Project for assessing the benefits and impact of digital preservation of research data. We will extend their utility to and adoption within the JISC community by providing user review and guidance for the tools and creating an integrated toolset. The project consortium consists of a mix of user institutions, projects, and disciplinary data services committed to the testing and exploitation of these tools and the lead partners in their original creation. We will demonstrate and critique the tools, and then create and disseminate the toolset and accompanying materials such as user guides and factsheets to the wider community.
The project plan and project outputs will be available from the Project Web site in due course. A dissemination event to mark the conclusion of the project will be held in central London on 12 July 2011. (Further details and registration will be announced in May.)
The project partners are UKOLN and the Digital Curation Centre at the University of Bath, the Centre for Health Informatics and Multi-professional Education (CHIME) at University College London , the UK Data Archive (University of Essex), the Archaeology Data Service (University of York), OCLC Research, and Charles Beagrie Limited.
The Value of Local Developers
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011Based on their work on the DevCSI Project, Mahendra Mahey and Paul Walk will be running a session at the JISC Conference 2011 entitled The value of local developers: innovating in difficult financial times. This session will run for an hour from 12:30 on Tuesday 15 March 2011.