Marieke Guy, Research Officer at the Digital Curation Centre, UKOLN will be co-presenting with Maggie Pickton of the University of Northampton and Sarah Jones, Digital Curation Centre at HATII, University of Glasgow, during Conference Session 116, “The role of libraries in data curation, access and preservation: an international perspective” at IFLA 2012 in Helsinki. Their presentation, to be given on the morning of 14 August 2012, is entitled Leading from the library: data management initiatives at the University of Northampton. An abstract and further details are available in pdf format.
Data Management Initiatives at IFLA
August 13th, 2012 by lisrwAriadne Issue 69 Published
August 3rd, 2012 by lisrwAriadne Issue 69 has been published with a range of features, event reports and reviews, whose content is now far more accessible since the advent of the new Ariadne platform. Further information on work in this area as well as a report on the recent JISC RIM CERIF Workshop run by UKOLN is available from a post on the Innovation Support Centre site. Additionally, further information is available on event reports by UKOLN staff from a post on the Informatics Research Group site. For full information on the main features offered in the new issue, please see the news feature on the UKOLN Web site.
What Does The Evidence Tell Us About Institutional Repositories?
July 18th, 2012 by lisrwA talk entitled What Does The Evidence Tell Us About Institutional Repositories? has been accepted for presentation at the Internet Librarian International Conference (ILI 2012). Details on the talk and its relevance to previous associated work are available in a blog posting on the Innovation Support Centre Web site.
Two ISC Papers Presented at OR 2012
July 16th, 2012 by lisrwTwo papers presented at Open Repositories 2012 were co-authored by staff of the Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN. The papers were entitled Open Metrics for Open Repositories by Brian Kelly, Nick Sheppard, Jenny Delasalle, Mark Dewey, Owen Stephens, Gareth Johnson and Stephanie Taylor and Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories? by Brian Kelly and Jenny Delasalle. Full details are available from a blog posting on the ISC Web site.
JISC RIM CERIF Workshop Report
July 10th, 2012 by lisrwThe Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN (together with the JISC RIM and RCSI Programmes) organised a workshop in Bristol on 27-28 June 2012 on Research Information Management (RIM) and CERIF. The Innovation Support Centre has just published a blog posting on this event. Further details are available from the ISC blog.
Open Access Repository Registries: Unrealised Infrastructure?
July 10th, 2012 by lisrwRichard Jones of Cottage Labs, Sheridan Brown of Key Perspectives and Emma Tonkin of the Innovation Support Centre, UKOLN, have co-authored a paper entitled Open Access Repository Registries: unrealised infrastructure? to be presented at OR 2012 on 11 July during session P4B: Shared Repository Services and Infrastructure (2). It will present a comparative evaluation between OpenDOAR and ROAR, discuss stakeholder feedback, and propose a repository registry for the future. Further details may be obtained from the relevant OR 2012 session overview page.
Patients Participate! Presentation Slides Available
July 9th, 2012 by Monica DukeSlides from Monica Duke’s presentation on the Patients Participate! Project entitled The Crowd-Sourced Lay Summary for Medical Research and delivered at the 6th Bloomsbury Conference held at University College London on 28-29 June 2012 are now available from the Conference Web site.
Presentations from the programme of distinguished speakers are also available from the Conference programme page.
Patients Participate! Invitation to Comment
July 4th, 2012 by Monica DukeThe Patients Participate! Project has released two documents for open community review. The first is a guide to writing Lay Summaries, and forms part of the DCC series of How-To Guides, pitched at an intermediate level, offering practical advice. The second draft released for comment is a Briefing Paper on Citizen Science, also being released as part of the DCC Briefing Papers series. Both documents can be reviewed using the A.nnotate Web site which supports interactive commenting. The papers can be navigated through the page index which appears after hovering with the mouse underneath the pdf link at the top left of the A.nnotate page.
Report on Data-driven Infrastructure
June 28th, 2012 by lisrwThe JISC Observatory service, provided by the Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN and JISC CETIS, has announced the publication of a preview version of the TechWatch report entitled Preparing for Data-driven Infrastructure. Details of the report and how to send feedback on it are available on the ISC Web site.
Resources from IWMW 2012
June 28th, 2012 by lisrwThe Innovation Support Centre has announced the availability of slides, recordings and video from UKOLN’s annual Institutional Web Management Workshop, IWMW 2012. Details are available from an ISC blog post.