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IJDC 8(1): Feature on New Issue’s Content

lisrw — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:52:26 +0000

UKOLN has recently published Volume 8, Issue 1 (2013) of the International Journal of Digital Curation on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre. It contains the usual mix of peer-reviewed papers and general articles; 17 derive from papers presented at the 2013 International Digital Curation Conference, while four were new contributions received by the Journal through general submission. A UKOLN news feature is now available to give readers a rapid overview of the papers and articles included.

The news feature is obtainable from the UKOLN Web site.

UKOLN Research Awarded Best Paper at ELPUB 2013

Emma Tonkin — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:08:21 +0000

A paper authored by Emma Tonkin, Stephanie Taylor and Greg Tourte entitled ‘Cover Sheets Considered Harmful‘ was granted the Best Paper award at the 17th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB 2013). Based on work completed alongside the Jisc-funded FixRep Project, this paper explores the motivations and facts underlying the use of repository tools to alter items following their deposit in an institutional repository.

International Journal of Digital Curation, Volume 8, Issue 1 Published

lisrw — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:31:07 +0000

The International Journal of Digital Curation, Volume 8, Issue 1 was recently published by UKOLN on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre. It contains the usual mix of peer-reviewed papers and general articles; seventeen derive from papers presented at the 2013 International Digital Curation Conference, while four were new contributions received by the Journal through general submission.

Enhancing Data Sharing and Interoperability

lisrw — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:41:19 +0000

The Community Capability Model (CCM) team at UKOLN and Microsoft Research has recently submitted its Working Group Case Statement (in draft form) to the Research Data Alliance and it is now available from the Research Data Alliance Forum pages.

The Statement explains the CCM Working Group Charter, and in the subsequent Value Proposition details the beneficiaries together with the varied impacts and outcomes of the Working Group. It goes on to describe how the WG will engage with existing work and lists final deliverables and milestones by way of greater detail and includes its Adoption Plan. You are invited to comment on the Case Statement on the Forum and it will be presented at the forthcoming RDA Launch in Gothenberg later this month.

The Benefits of the ORCID ID to Researchers

Brian Kelly — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:59:54 +0000

UKOLN staff have recently worked with Jisc in supporting the take-up of the Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID) by the research community. A recent post which explains Why every researcher should sign up for their ORCID ID has been published on the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog. The post describes how ORCID is a non-profit effort providing digital identifiers to the research community to ensure correct authorship data are available and more transparent. The post also summarises the benefits to researchers who acquire their ORCID ID.

IDCC13 Previews: Scott Edmunds and Herbert Van de Sompel

lisrw — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:20:15 +0000

Two further preview blog postings on the forthcoming 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC13) have been made available.

The first has been written by Herbert Van de Sompel, team leader of the Prototyping Team at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His team is engaged in research on various aspects of scholarly communication in the digital age. Herbert has played a major role in creating the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), the Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse & Exchange specifications (OAI-ORE), the OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services, the SFX linking server, the bX scholarly recommender service, and info URI. Herbert is currently working with his team on the Open Annotation, Memento and ResourceSync projects.

Herbert’s preview posting on the Conference is available on the Digital Curation Centre Web site.

The second preview is by Scott Edmunds of GigaScience/BGI HK. Working with the British Library and DataCite, GigaScience published its first data (the genome of the deadly German outbreak strain of E. coli) in June 2011, and is currently developing an integrated data analysis platform to support publication of executable papers. After postdoctoral positions on Cancer Molecular Pathology at the WHO International Agency for Research in Cancer in Lyons and Institute of Cell and Molecular Sciences in London (Queen Mary), Scott became senior scientific editor for the BMC Genomics and Bioinformatics journals at BioMed Central.

Scott’s preview posting on the Conference is available on the Digital Curation Centre Web site.

Preparing for Effective Adoption and Use of Ebooks in Education

Brian Kelly — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:13:23 +0000

The final version of the TechWatch report entitled Preparing for Effective Adoption and Use of Ebooks in Education is now available.

Updated in light of feedback received from a preview version released in September, this report is a primer to help academic librarians, managers, and members of faculty respond effectively as ebooks become mainstream and the percentage of academic publications delivered as ebooks rises steadily.

The report aims to support the adoption of ebooks by:

introducing the historical and present context of ebooks
reviewing the basics of ebook technologies
considering scenarios for ebook adoption and usage
addressing current challenges
considering future developments.

Published by JISC Observatory and written by commissioned author James Clay (Gloucestershire College) with production editing and project management provided by UKOLN Innovation Support Centre, this is the fourth in a series of TechWatch reports published since 2011.

Ariadne Issue 70 Now Available

lisrw — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:54:15 +0000

Ariadne Issue 70 was published recently with a wide range of feature articles, event reports and book reviews. A summary of the principal material is now available in a news feature on the UKOLN Web site.

International Journal of Digital Curation, Volume 7, Issue 2

lisrw — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:50:23 +0000

The International Journal of Digital Curation, Volume 7, Issue 2 was recently published by UKOLN on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre. It contains the usual mix of peer-reviewed papers and general articles; eight derive from papers presented at the 2011 International Digital Curation Conference, while two were new contributions received by the Journal through general submission.

A summary of the content of IJDC, 7(2) is available from the UKOLN Web site.

Stakeholder Benefits from Research Data Management

lisrw — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:32:09 +0000

The JISC-funded Research360 Project, managed by UKOLN, has released the summary stakeholder benefits analysis from the Research Data Management (RDM) business case for the University of Bath. The document, entitled Benefits from Research Data Management in Universities for Industry and Not-for-Profit Research Partners, is now available to download. Further information is available from a news feature on the UKOLN Web site.