Emma Tonkin, Technical Innovation Co-ordinator at the Innovation Support Centre, was recently interviewed by a journalist from Science and has attracted interest in her analysis of Twitter coverage of the 2011 London riots. A posting on the ISC blog is available.
Archive for the ‘team-systems’ Category
Report: Managing Research Data Hack Day
Friday, May 11th, 2012The Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN has announced publication of an event report on the recent DevCSI Managing Research Data Hack Day held in Manchester.
New Ariadne Available
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012Ariadne Issue 68 has recently been made available on the World Wide Web and its readers will immediately notice it has a completely new look-and-feel. There is a news feature available on the UKOLN Web site.
Data Management Plans at the DCC East Midlands Roadshow
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012Monica Duke of UKOLN will give a presentation on Data Management Plans at the DCC East Midlands Roadshow being held at the University of Loughborough. She will consider research funder requirements and data management planning in terms of what funders expect, how to write a Data Management Plan, and what DMP Online can offer.
Community Capability Model Framework for Data-Intensive Research Review Workshop: Melbourne
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012The Community Capability Model for Data Intensive Research Project (led by UKOLN and funded by Microsoft) is holding a workshop in Melbourne, Australia on 10 February 2012 to continue developing the model in consultation with the community. Further information is available from the UKOLN Events Web site. Registration is now open.
UKOLN Update December 2011
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012The recently released issue of UKOLN Update, a monthly newsletter, provides an overview of UKOLN work during December 2011. It highlights key blog posts, presentations, and events related to staff activities.
Most frequently used words in UKOLN blogs, December 2011
Progress in the Data Citation Community
Monday, December 12th, 2011Writing in Issue 40, December 2011 of the DPC/DCC publication What’s New, Monica Duke of UKOLN and DCC reviews some of the developments and events which have brought together practitioners with an interest in scholarly communication, data citation and data publishing. In her editorial “The Data Citation Community Gathers Pace“, she suggests that a community is now forming and gathering pace.
UKOLN Update November 2011
Friday, December 2nd, 2011The recently released issue of UKOLN Update, a monthly newsletter, provides an overview of UKOLN work during November 2011. It highlights key blog posts, presentations, and events related to staff activities.
Most frequently used words in UKOLN blogs, November 2011
DevCSI Life Sciences Hackdays
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011Another free DevCSI event, DevCSI Life Sciences Hackdays, will take place over 6-7 December 2011 in London.
This event is being organized by:
- Developer Community Supporting Innovation Project (DevCSI)
- Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS)
- Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF, Open Science Working Group)
The event will be suitable for:
- Researchers in the Life Sciences
- Software developers in the Life Sciences
- Software developers / researchers developing Semantic Web Applications / Tools / Mashups / Visualisations from the Life Sciences and other domains
- Anyone interested in developing and using Open Science tools particularly in the Life Sciences
- Those offering support for using datasets, APIs and tools to be used for the delegates
The event will bring together delegates from the SWAT4LS workshop and tutorials (taking place 8-9 December 2011) and researchers, developers and anyone else interested in the Life Sciences to work together in teams or individually to use and enhance existing Open Science semantic web applications and tools – and possibly develop new ones.
Some ideas already being floated are in Malaria, Cancer and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) research.
For more information and for booking, please refer to the event’s page on the UKOLN Web site.
UKOLN Update September 2011
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011The recently released issue of UKOLN Update, a monthly newsletter, provides an overview of UKOLN work during September 2011. It highlights key news features, blog posts, presentations, and events related to staff activities.
Most frequently used words in UKOLN blogs, September 2011