Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, Digital Curation Centre, will facilitate the panel on Developing Services to Support Research Data Management and Sharing
during ECDL 2010 in Glasgow. The subject of the panel will be the current gap between the readiness of the current information environment to deal with large amounts of heterogeneous data and the disposition of academics in research institutions to update their practices of data management and curation. The panel will focus on this gap between digital library systems and researchers’ current practice in managing data and will explore appropriate services that can help to bridge it.
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Supporting Research Data Management at ECDL 2010
Monday, September 6th, 2010Registration for the 6th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) Now Open
Friday, September 3rd, 2010Registration is now open for this year’s International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC). It will take place over 6-8 December in Chicago. The theme of the 2010 conference is Participation and Practice: Growing the Curation Community through the Data Decade. Details on registration and all other aspects are available from the Digital Curation Centre Web site.
SageCite Project Funded to Test a Framework for Citation of Network Models
Friday, August 6th, 2010SageCite, funded by JISC through the Managing Research Data Programme, will develop and test a Citation Framework of network models of disease and associated data, linking data, methods and publications. The domain of bio-informatics provides a case study, and the project builds on existing infrastructure and tools: myExperiment and the Sage Commons. Citations of complex network models of disease and associated data will be embedded in leading publications, exploring issues around the citation of data including the compound nature of datasets, description standards and identifiers. The project has international links with the Concept Web Alliance and Bio2RDF. The partners are UKOLN, the University of Manchester and the British Library (representing DataCite), with contributions from Nature Genetics and PLOS.
KIM, ERIM and the Silo of Doom
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010Alex Ball of UKOLN and the UK Digital Curation Centre gave a presentation entitled ‘KIM, ERIM and the Silo of Doom: lessons from two long-lived data projects’ at the DPC event ‘Designed to Last: Computer-Aided Design’, held at the British Library Centre for Conservation on 16 July 2010. Both the slides and a script for his presentation are now available.
Mashed Library 2010 – Chips and Mash
Monday, July 19th, 2010Julian 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.
Enabling 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.
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.