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May 15, 2014 Leave a comment
The second “Workshop on Linking and Contextualizing Publications and Datasets” is now inviting submissions by June 30, 2014. The workshop will be held on September 12 as part of the Digital Libraries 2014 conference in London.
Details can be found at: http://lcpd2014.research-infrastructures.eu/call.html
January 20, 2014 Leave a comment
IDCC14 Preview: Paul Lewis, Washington DC correspondent
The 9th International Digital Curation Conference is quickly approaching. The theme of this year’s conference is how data-driven developments are changing the world around us. Paul Lewis answers the question of “What scientific breakthroughs, technical advances or potential new opportunities excite you the most?”
Technology has transformed the way journalism is produced and consumed. I’ve been fortunate to start working in the profession in the midst of this transformation, and I’ve found it all exciting. I suppose what really excites me is the possibility of collective action: journalists as a fulcrum, working in a symbiotic relationship with an audience that now has access to source materials, and tools, to help tell stories.
January 15, 2014 Leave a comment
RDA Meeting: The Data Sharing Community, Dublin, Ireland, 26 to 28 March 2014
We’ve posted several announcements about the various activities about RDA at Data Forwards. Below is the latest information about a forthcoming RDA meeting in Dublin, Ireland in March.
Data is the very foundation of research, and each year the quantity and velocity of data produced increases. Sharing of research data has the potential to revolutionise the way research is conducted, accelerating discovery and improving society; but sharing research data globally is challenging.
The RDA (Research Data Alliance) is now one year old. It is a global, grass-roots organisation dedicated to developing the tools, infrastructure, services, standards and practices that the research community needs to share and exchange its data treasures.
The third RDA plenary meeting is focused on taking the global partnerships built in the data sharing community through the RDA’s activities to date, combining these with existing infrastructure and best practices across the data sharing community, and enabling the community to drive forward the changes needed for global data exchange. This plenary meeting is about exploiting RDA’s work to date to its full potential.
More information about this meeting is available at: https://rd-alliance.org/rda-third-plenary-meeting.html
October 22, 2013 Leave a comment
Aligning Data and Research Infrastructure: IASSIST 2014 Annual Conference Call for Paper and Session Proposals
The international research community is in the midst of building a global data ecosystem that consists of a mixture of domain data repositories, data archives, data libraries, and data services and that seeks ways to facilitate data discovery, integration, access, and preservation. Evidence of this transformation is found in the recently established ICSU World Data System and in the Research Data Alliance. Like IASSIST, these organizations are contributing to the development of a global data ecosystem. Alignment, or unification of strategies, must take place at many levels to achieve this. How do we proceed? What advancements are needed in research data management, research infrastructure, and the development of new expertise?
IASSIST welcomes submissions on the topics described above and encourage conference participants to propose papers and sessions that will be an interest to a diverse audience. To facilitate the formation and scheduling of sessions, three tracks are being offered:
Deadline for submission: 9 December 2013.
More information about the conference and proposal is available here: http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/iassist/call-for-papers/
July 22, 2013 Leave a comment
Institutional Repositories Dealing with Data: What a difference a ‘D’ makes!
The 2013 Open Repositories Conference was held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island from July 8 – 12. This particular workshop aimed to help IR managers and others in the repository community to identify strategies and practical steps to deal with research data within the increasingly complex environment of open access scholarly communication.
Speakers included Charles (Chuck) Humphrey, Robin Rice, Angus Whyte, Michael Witt, and Courtney Matthews. Their presentation slides are available from the links below:
Introduction: Angus Whyte, Digital Curation Centre
Keynote: Chuck Humphrey, The Long Tail of Data Wagging the IR.
Talks:
Robin Rice, On being a cog rather than inventing the wheel: Edinburgh DataShare as a key service in the University of Edinburgh’s RDM Initiative.
Michael Witt & Courtney Matthews, The Purdue University Research Repository (PURR): providing institutional data services with a virtual research environment, data publication and archiving.
July 6, 2013 Leave a comment
Now and Future of Data Publishing Symposium
The conference was held in May 2013 in UK. Below are links to a nice sum-up of the event via blog posts.
For more information about Now and Future of Data Publishing Symposium:
June 25, 2013 Leave a comment
Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation II: An Action Assembly
This event will assemble digital preservation leaders from a variety of backgrounds (including national libraries, academic libraries and archives, research centres, public libraries, information science/management programs, archives, corporations, and funding agencies) to carry out international alignment activities to support the preservation of our collective digital memory.
This Action Assembly will build upon the successes of the 2011 ANADP Conference in Estonia, in which more than 120 delegates from 24 nations established targeted alignment channels for their future efforts. These alignment channels were documented in the conference volume, Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation (Educopia, 2012), this year’s winner of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) Preservation Publication award. The first major action outcomes-an international tools/services registry, a framework for applying OAIS to Distributed Digital Preservation methodologies, a catalogue of education and training opportunities, and quantitative data gathering around digital preservation costs-will be delivered to the community at ANADP II this Fall.
May 21, 2013 Leave a comment
The programme for the Now and Future of Data Publishing Symposium is now available!http://nfdp13.jiscinvolve.org/wp/programme/
The bulk of the day comprises a series of panel sessions, some in plenary, some in parallel, in which a host of experts involved in various ways with data publication will addressing a series of key issues. This is a format that we hope will encourage discussion and allow participants to set an agenda of issues to be tackled to help shape data publishing over the next few years.
More information about the programme and views from organisers and speakers will appear on the symposium blog http://nfdp13.jiscinvolve.org/wp/blog/
Should you be disappointed and not able to attend NFDP13, do not despair: there is a series of exciting events in Oxford in the same week. In particular is the Dryad Membership Meeting, on Friday 24 May, and is not just restricted to Dryad members.
The programme for the Dryad Membership Meeting is now availablehttp://datadryad.org/pages/membershipMeeting and you can register here http://dryad-orcid-nfdp.eventbrite.co.uk/
We look forward to seeing you in Oxford at any of the associated meetings: the Now and Future of Data Publishing Symposium 2013; the ORCID Outreach Meeting; the Joint Dryad-ORCID Symposium on Research Attribution; and the Dryad Membership (and more) Meeting http://dryad-orcid-nfdp.eventbrite.co.uk/
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