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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.

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.

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.

Exploiting Research Data for Teaching at ALT-C 2012

lisrw — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:59:11 +0000

Cathy Pink of UKOLN and Jez Cope of the University of Bath, both members of the JISC-funded Research360 Project, will be running a workshop entitled Exploiting Research Data for Teaching (Workshop 188) on 11 September 2012 at the ALT-C 2012 Conference in Manchester. This workshop will explore how research data can be exploited for learning and teaching in Further and Higher Education, addressing the following questions:

What is research data?
How can data be exploited for teaching and learning?
Where can I find suitable data?
What licence applies to the data and how do I comply?
What contextual information is needed to make effective use of data?

Further information on this workshop is available.

Managing the Material: Tackling Visual Arts as Research Data

Marieke Guy — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:31:09 +0000

The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) in conjunction with the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), through the JISC-funded KAPTUR Project, is running a one-day workshop looking at visual arts as research data. The workshop will take place on 14 September 2012. Marieke Guy of UKOLN will be co-facilitating a session on Where’s the data? What’s the use? Please note that although it is already sold out, materials from this event will be made available.

Functional and Architectural Requirements for Metadata

Alex Ball — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:55:00 +0000

Jian Qin of Syracuse University will be presenting a paper co-authored by herself, Alex Ball of UKOLN and Jane Greenberg of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, at the 2012 DCMI International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2012). In the paper, entitled Functional and Architectural Requirements for Metadata: Supporting Discovery and Management of Scientific Data, Qin, Ball and Greenberg define systems requirements for metadata supporting the discovery and management of scientific data across multiple domains.

DC-2012 takes place on 3-7 September 2012 in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia and forms part of Knowledge Technology Week 2012.

Digital Research 2012: Call for Contributions

lisrw — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:18:56 +0000

Digital Research 2012 (formally the UK e-Science All-Hands Meeting) is being held in St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, over 10-12 September 2012. It is supported by the eResearch South Consortium, in which UKOLN is a partner.

The goal of the Digital Research 2012 Conference is to showcase today’s digital research practice and innovation, and to set an influential agenda for tomorrow. The Conference theme is the Future of Digital Research and the organisers invite short papers, stories and videos giving your glimpse of “Digital Research in the Future” in (and between) any disciplines. They encourage originality and forward-thinking, and there will be awards for the best-rated submissions.

Further information on the Call for Contributions is available from the Digital Research 2012 Web site.

UKOLN Contribution to the University of Bath’s Roadmap for EPSRC

lisrw — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:25:10 +0000

Liz Lyon and Catherine Pink of the UKOLN Informatics Research Group have authored the University of Bath Roadmap for EPSRC: Compliance with Research Data Management Expectations. Full details are available from a news feature now available on the UKOLN Web site.

Visualizing Research Data Records for their Better Management

Alex Ball — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:25:23 +0000

The Journal of Digital Information, Volume 13, Number 1 features several papers dealing with research data management, including one by Alex Ball of UKOLN and the Digital Curation Centre, and Mansur Darlington, Thomas Howard, Chris McMahon and Steve Culley of the IdMRC at the University of Bath. In “Visualizing Research Data Records for their Better Management”, they present a UML2-based method of recording associations between research data records, so that the provenance, context and relative importance of the various records may be better understood by anyone not immediately familiar with the research. This paper relates to work carried out by the JISC-funded ERIM Project.

CERIF Landscape Study

lisrw — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:08:35 +0000

Rosemary Russell of UKOLN ISC has written an explanatory news feature on Adoption of CERIF in Higher Education Institutions in the UK: A Landscape Study which is now available on the UKOLN Web site.