Simon Fenton - Jones
Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:20:26 -0700
Dear Alex, We're having the same kind of conversation over at three of terena's taskforces, although it's couched in slightly different terms. As most of our community are engineers who are focussed on the 'interchange' between NREN's (National research and education networks), We're inquiring into, not just the aggregation of information resources, but also into what combination of 'real time' and 'asynchronous' communications might be commonly required by global disciplinary groups. I.e. as opposed to (their) national institutions.
Perhaps the best way I might describe this development is to look at dante http://www.dante.net/ as a pan European hub. Our community(ies) are considering what range of facebook type 'services' might be commonly required by European and Global group who share a common research interests. When we talk about 'services' we talk about what combination of wikis, blogs, video - capture, streaming, storage - skype, AV conferencing, etc (open source, social) services these groups might find useful, and might be use to attract and include their globally interested parties. It's a bit like taking on the next step after this one. http://commons.internet2.edu/ Or in your "curation" communities' case, the next step after this one. http://europeana.eu/portal/communities.html You'll have to excuse me if I don't tick your boxes. I'm just not sure just yet who 'our' communities are comprised of. But that's why we are being sociable:) Regards, simon -----Original Message----- From: owner-dcc-associa...@lists.ed.ac.uk [mailto:owner-dcc-associa...@lists.ed.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alex Ball Sent: Wednesday, 21 April 2010 12:07 PM To: research-data...@jiscmail.ac.uk; dcc-associates@lists.ed.ac.uk Subject: [dcc-associates] Social media for research data management Apologies for cross-posting How do social media platforms help you with research data management issues? At the Digital Curation Centre we are reviewing how we interact with social media beyond our own site at www.dcc.ac.uk. For any of the categories below that you have used, please tell us: * Which platforms do you find valuable for research data issues? * In a few words, what do you get out of using this platform? List of categories * Blogging/microblogging * Online discussion/networking * Sharing (links to) interesting Web resources * Sharing (references to) interesting research papers, etc. It would also help us if you could tell us your interest in research data. Please put an X against any that apply to you. * Researcher * Research Administrator * Research Funder * Data Manager/Curator * Data Centre/Archive/Repository * Library Service Please send responses to a.b...@ukoln.ac.uk rather than the list. We will circulate a summary of the responses ASAP. Cheers, Alex. -- Alex Ball Research Officer UKOLN, University of Bath, UK. BA2 7AY T: +44 1225 383668 F: +44 1225 386256 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/