Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, gave a keynote presentation entitled “Incremental Change or Revolution? Libraries and the Informatics Transform” at Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2012 at the University of Zadar, Croatia recently. Liz’ slides from this presentation are now available on the UKOLN Web site.
Posts Tagged ‘research data management’
Incremental Change or Revolution?
Monday, June 25th, 2012UKOLN Contribution to the University of Bath’s Roadmap for EPSRC
Monday, June 18th, 2012Liz 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
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012The 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.
The Role of Libraries in Building Capacity and Capability for Data
Thursday, May 31st, 2012Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, gave a presentation entitled Building Capacity and Capability for Data: Requirements, Challenges, Opportunities to the Workshop “Skills and Human Resources for e-Infrastructures within Horizon 2020” which took place on 30 May 2012 in Brussels. Liz’ presentation focused on research data management skills with an emphasis on institutional roles, in particular on those of the library and librarians. Slides from her presentation are now available on the UKOLN Web site.
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.
Partnering for Research Data
Monday, April 30th, 2012Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, will be giving a presentation entitled Partnering for Research Data at the 2nd LIBER International Workshop on Digital Preservation to be held over 7-8 May 2012 in Florence.
The event has been organised by the LIBER Steering Committee for Heritage Collections and Preservation in collaboration with the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale in Florence and the National Library of the Netherlands. The theme of the Workshop this year is Partnerships in curating European digital resources, in recognition of the increasing importance in the current financial situation of creating partnerships to secure long-term access to digital collections. Details of the Workshop are available from the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale Web site.
Managing Research Data Hack Days in Manchester
Friday, April 20th, 2012The 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.
Re-engineering Libraries for the Data Decade
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012Liz Lyon recently gave a keynote presentation to VALA 2012 in Melbourne. The Conference’s theme this year was eM-powering eFutures, seeking to promote the understanding and use of communication technology in libraries and the related museums, archives and galleries services. In her presentation entitled “The Informatics Transform: Re-engineering Libraries for the Data Decade”, Liz explored how research data are positioned within the wider “Big Data” space and examined the role of libraries and librarians in research data management, highlighting some urgent actions needed to develop essential data informatics skills within the sector.
Slides from Liz’ presentation together with a link to the video footage of her keynote are now available on the UKOLN Web site.
LIDA: Libraries in the Digital Age
Monday, January 30th, 2012Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, has been invited to give a keynote presentation to the Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA 2012) together with Eileen G. Abels, Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Alyssa Goodman and Herbert Van de Sompel. In her presentation entitled Incremental Change or Revolution? Libraries and the Informatics Transform, Liz considers the current position of libraries and their degree of engagement with research data management, scholarly communications and citizen science together with how they might extend their stewardship of data-intensive research.
Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) is a biennial international conference that focuses on the challenging and rapidly evolving nature of libraries and information systems and services. In recognition of today’s dynamic online and mediated technological environment, this year’s conference has chosen ‘CHANGES’ as the title of its theme. LIDA 2012 brings together at the University of Zadar, Croatia, researchers, educators, practitioners, and developers from all over the world in a forum for personal exchanges, discussions, and learning. The Conference will take place over 18–22 June 2012.
The conference will divide into two parts:
Part I: CHANGES in the world of library services: Evolution and innovation (Programme Chair: Marie L. Radford,
(School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University))
Part II:CHANGES in the world of electronic resources: Information and digitization
(Programme chair: Christine L. Borgman, (Department of Information Studies, UCLA))
Further information can be obtained via the Conference Web site or by email.
Data Management at the Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011Alex Ball of UKOLN and the UK Digital Curation Centre (DCC) will be speaking at a breakout session on data management at the 22nd Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop. He will provide an overview of the tools and support offered by the DCC for research data management, and demonstrate how data management plans can be designed using the DMP Online service.