Managing Research Data Hack Days in Manchester

April 20th, 2012 by lisrw

The next Managing Research Data Hack Days will take place on 3 and 4 May 2012 in the Weston Room II at the Manchester Conference Centre. MRD Hack days are a free small event (which includes accommodation and food) for developers and experts who are interested in working on ideas in the area of Managing Research Data. These MRD days have been organised by DevCSI, the JISC Managing Research Data Programme and the JISC Orbital Project. They aim to bring together software developers, project managers, data librarians and experts particularly in the area of Managing Research Data.

We already have a number of ideas for hacks posted on the DevCSI Hack Days ideas page.

Further information and a booking form are available from the DevCSI location on the UKOLN Web site.

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DCC NE England Data Management Roadshow

April 18th, 2012 by lisrw

This is the last opportunity to register for this free DCC event taking place over 23 – 24 April 2012 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Registration will close at 2pm, Thursday 19 April.

The Roadshow is co-organised with Professor Julie McLeod, Northumbria University School of Computing, Engineering, and Information Sciences. Its programme includes an interesting range of speakers who will share examples of developing research data management services and infrastructure.

Day 1 will be a general introduction and is open to all. Best practice will be shared through case studies to help build a community of data management expertise in the North-East of England. Day 2 is a strategic training day for research support staff. The workshop provides an introduction to curation and DCC tools so you can start to plan research data management services for your institution.

Each day can be booked individually. The event will take place in the Darwin Suite, 3rd Floor Bioscience Centre, Times Square, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 4EP. A a full programme is available.

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IWMW 2012 Open for Bookings

April 11th, 2012 by lisrw

Bookings are now open for UKOLN’s annual Institutional Web Management Workshop, IWMW 2012. Information about speakers and sessions as well as how to book is now available on the UKOLN Web site.

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Spaces Available at DCC Belfast and London Roadshows

April 4th, 2012 by lisrw

The Digital Curation Centre is running a series of regional roadshows to support HEIs in their research data management. Registration is open for two more DCC data management roadshows.

The London roadshow is being organised in conjunction with the Library Services at Imperial College London and will take place on 21 – 22 May 2012 at 58 Prince’s Gate, Imperial College London.

The Northern Ireland roadshow is being organised in conjunction with Queen’s University Belfast and will take place on 6 – 7 June 2012 at the Auditorium, McClay Library, Queen’s University, Belfast.

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Open Infrastructures for Open Science

April 4th, 2012 by lisrw

The European Commission, in a co-ordinated effort with EU Member states, is investing in different domains of e-Infrastructures to connect researchers, scholars, educators and students through high-speed research networks, to provide access to co-operative computing platforms, to develop world-class supercomputing capacity and support the emergence of a robust platform for access to and preservation of scientific information.

In support of this initiative, a Horizon 2020 consultation event entitled Open Infrastructures for Open Science will take place in Rome over 11-12 April 2012. Its discussions will focus on e-Infrastructures and e-Science in the context of the emerging Digital European Research Area. Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, has been invited to take part in a panel entitled Opening science through e-infrastructures on 11 April 2012 at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

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Brigitte Jörg and the CERIF Support Project at UKOLN

April 2nd, 2012 by Sally Lewis

We are delighted to announce that we have recruited Brigitte Jörg to the Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN, to be the National Coordinator for our new JISC-funded CERIF Support Project. Brigitte will be joining us in June 2012, when the project begins.

Together with JISC, the Innovation Support Centre recognises the growing importance of CERIF in the research information management landscape in the UK – our own Rosemary Russell has recently published a study on this.

Brigitte has a very high level of expertise with CERIF and will bring strong information management skills and experience to the Innovation Support Centre. We have already worked with Brigitte a little: in particular, she was a speaker at our recent CERIF Tutorial in Bath.

We look forward to working with her!

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UKOLN Contributions to JISC Inform

March 29th, 2012 by Brian Kelly

The latest issue of the JISC Inform newsletter was published yesterday and contained  two articles from UKOLN. One article provides advice on how institutions should respond to the ‘cookie’ legislation which comes into force on 26 May. A second article entitled Making the most of the open web, in which “three experts discuss how to use the social web to increase traffic to your work and make it more discoverable”, describes sound approaches to the use of blogs as an open practice.

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CERIF Landscape Study

March 22nd, 2012 by lisrw

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.

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Adoption of CERIF in UK HEIs

March 15th, 2012 by Rosemary Russell

Adoption of CERIF in Higher Education Institutions in the UK: A Landscape Study by Rosemary Russell of UKOLN has just been published and is available in both PDF and Word formats. This study documents the extent of adoption and engagement with CERIF in UK Higher Education institutions (HEIs) in late 2011/early 2012. CERIF, the Common European Research Information Format provides a standardised way of managing and exchanging information about research. 51 institutions in the UK are using CERIF Current Research Information Systems (CRIS), indicating a 30.7% adoption of CERIF. However despite the widespread use of CERIF as an underlying standard, many institutions are not engaging with CERIF directly.

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The International Journal of Digital Curation, Volume 7, Issue 1 (2012)

March 15th, 2012 by lisrw

UKOLN has recently published Volume 7, Issue 1 (2012) of the International Journal of Digital Curation (IJDC) on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre. A summary of content has been provided in a news feature available on the UKOLN Web site.

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