The programme and speakers for the Digital Curation Workshop on “Disciplinary Dimensions of Digital Curation: New Perspectives on Research Data” are now published. This DCC SCARP project workshop
takes place on 2 December in London as a Pre-Conference workshop of the 5th International Digital Curation Conference.
Archive for the ‘Research’ Category
DCC SCARP Workshop
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining?
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009The Call for Papers has opened for the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG) Conference to be held 13-15 September 2010 in Exeter. Proposals should be submitted by 26 February 2010. Conference organisation will be by UKOLN.
UKOLN participating at DCMI 2009
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009UKOLN will be well-represented at this year’s International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications in Seoul, South Korea. 
Emma Tonkin, Talat Chaudhri and Paul Walk will be participating actively while Brian Kelly has recorded a contribution in advance. UKOLN will be introducing an innovative approach to the design of ‘application profiles’ which focuses both on engaging users at the earliest opportunity and on using an evidence-based, test-driven development approach. [Photo: Copyright Andrew Hewson]
Text Mining for Scholarly Communications and Repositories Joint Workshop
Monday, October 5th, 2009UKOLN is co-hosting an open workshop with the National Centre for Text Mining NaCTeM on 28-29 October 2009. The Joint Workshop will be held at the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester. The Keynote presentation titled “eScience and Semantic Computing” will be given by Professor Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft External Research. A full programme of international speakers and registration form are available.
5th International Digital Curation Conference (2009) Open for Registration
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Registration is now open for the 5th International Digital Curation Conference: “Moving to Multi-Scale Science: Managing Complexity and Diversity” to be held 2-4 December 2009 at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel, Kensington, London. The Conference is being held by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and organised by UKOLN. Pre-Conference Workshops are also arranged. Full details and how to register are available.
Making Repository Deposit Easier with SWORD
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009Adrian Stevenson, UKOLN, will be giving a presentation and demonstration at the DSpace User Group Meeting on 15 October 2009, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Shortlisted for the Remote Worker Awards
Monday, August 24th, 2009UKOLN research officer Marieke Guy has been shortlisted as a winner in the Remote Employment and BT Business Remote Worker Awards . Marieke is one of 5 shortlisted winners in the ‘remote worker award’ category. The winner will be announced on 10 September during a ceremony at Cliveden House, Berkshire.
Julian Cheal wins Prize at Repository Fringe
Thursday, August 13th, 2009Julian Cheal, UKOLN, won the Pecha Kucha prize for “short presentations of 20 slides at 20 seconds each slide” at the Repository Fringe 2009 in Edinburgh.
Rachel Heery
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009It is with great sadness that we report that Rachel Heery, former Assistant Director of UKOLN, died on Friday 24 July, after a long-term illness. Rachel joined UKOLN in 1995, and led the R&D Team and later became Assistant Director for Research and Development, until her retirement in 2007. Our thoughts are with all Rachel’s friends and colleagues, but above all her family. It is possible to send a message about Rachel.