[dcc-associates] RE: LIS-RESEARCHSUPPORT Digest - 28 Mar 2013 to 4 Apr 2013 (#2013-21)

[Joy Davidson]

Understanding how 3rd party data are being used by researchers within an 
institution is likely to be a concern for many HEIs setting up research data 
management policies and support services. The University of York are currently 
seeking input for their survey on how external data resources are being managed 
institutionally. The survey is available until April 16th. 

Best regards,
Joy

-Original Message-
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automatic digest system
Sent: 05 April 2013 00:07
To: lis-researchsupp...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: LIS-RESEARCHSUPPORT Digest - 28 Mar 2013 to 4 Apr 2013 (#2013-21)

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Topics of the day:

  1. How are external data resources managed at your institution?
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Date:Thu, 4 Apr 2013 13:56:13 +0100
From:Kirstyn Radford 
Subject: How are external data resources managed at your institution?

Dear all

Staff at the University of York Information Directorate are undertaking a 
project to survey the use of external datasets (financial, social/economic, 
environmental etc) for research and learning at our institution, aiming to 
develop a medium-term strategy for managing subscriptions, licences and user 
support.

We would like to establish whether there are any common practices across the
sector:  who within your institution has responsibility for managing data 
sources, what skills/experience does the role require, and what services do you 
provide?

Your response to the survey below (5 questions) will be much appreciated.
Unless you choose to identify yourself in Q5, your response will be anonymous.
 
Please respond by 5pm Tuesday 16th April.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dHc4M2
9icHl2QVhMcDBlS2JOc0pwT1E6MQ


Very many thanks and best wishes,
Kirstyn

~~
Kirstyn Radford
Academic Liaison Librarian:  Economics, Politics, PEP, CHE, Women's Studies
Library and Archives
University of York
YO10 5DD
01904 32 3885
kirstyn.radf...@york.ac.uk 
http://www.york.ac.uk/library/
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End of LIS-RESEARCHSUPPORT Digest - 28 Mar 2013 to 4 Apr 2013 (#2013-21)

[dcc-associates] FW: RCUK OA Guidance and FAQs

[Joy Davidson]

-Original Message-
From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On 
Behalf Of Lawson, Gerald J.
Sent: 08 April 2013 17:26
To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: RCUK OA Guidance and FAQs

Colleagues, RCUK has published the latest version of its Policy and Guidance on 
Open Access

It has also provided a FAQ document, which will be updated as and when new 
questions arise.

The changes aim to further clarify the guidance, and draw on comments received 
from across the research community, learned societies and publishers following 
a call for input in March.

http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/news/2013news/Pages/130408.aspx

Gerry Lawson

NERC Research Information Systems
Polaris House SN2 1EU, Swindon
g...@nerc.ac.uk 01793 17 (mob 07740 068060)
JVCS:  swindon-vis...@nerc.ac.uk; swindon-aur...@nerc.ac.uk
Skype: gerry.lawson2



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[dcc-associates] FW: Registration open for OPF Hackathon: A Practical Approach to Disk Images & Digital Forensics, 15-15 May, Copenhagen

[Joy Davidson]

This event may be of interest to list members. 

-Original Message-
From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On 
Behalf Of Rebecca McGuinness
Sent: 25 March 2013 10:22
To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: Registration open for OPF Hackathon: A Practical Approach to Disk 
Images & Digital Forensics, 15-15 May, Copenhagen

Registration is now open for the next OPF hackathon at: 
http://opf-digital-forensics.eventbrite.com/ 

The world of digital forensics offers many useful and practical techniques for 
capturing, understanding and preserving digital collections. This event will 
provide participants with a chance to learn what digital forensics has to offer 
the digital preservation community by getting hands on with data, tools and new 
techniques. Our expert facilitators will be on hand to guide you through these 
challenging concepts and processes in a manner that is easy to understand and 
apply. This blog post 
(http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2013-03-18-digital-forensics-and-emulation-preservationista)
 provides an overview of the application of forensic techniques and emulation 
technologies in digital preservation.

Who should attend?
Digital preservation practitioners; digital librarians and archivists, digital 
curators, repository managers and those with an interest in understanding and 
working as a team to solve concrete preservation challenges.
 
Developers who write digital preservation software, and are interested in the 
technical challenges of solving concrete digital preservation challenges.

What can I expect from the event?
The agenda for the event is set by you: the practitioners. You will bring with 
you disk images of digital data you want to assess, analyse and preserve. As 
part of a team, and with support from experts, you'll apply forensics tools to 
solve your digital preservation challenges. The best way of learning practical 
preservation skills is by getting hands-on experience of actually doing it. By 
the end of the event you'll have solved your preservation challenges, learnt 
new skills you can take back to the office/library/archive, and will have 
become part of a supportive community of digital preservation practitioners.
 
The technical problem solving and software development will be delivered by 
you: the developers. You will bring your laptop-based development setup and 
your best coding skills. Working closely with other devs, and our experts, 
you'll apply forensics tools, emulation and virtualisation, and other software 
tools (you've scripted up, hacked and enhanced) to solve the digital 
preservation challenges provided by the practitioners. By the end of the event 
you'll have provided the technical drive to solve some challenging preservation 
problems, experienced the freedom of agile development, and will have become 
part of a supportive community of technical experts.

Agenda
The event agenda can be seen here: 
http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/KB/Agenda+-+Disk+Images+and+Digital+Forensics+%28Copenhagen%29.
 Please note the start and end times.

Further information
For more information about how to prepare for the event, and travel and 
accommodation information, please visit the event wiki page: 
http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/KB/2013-05-15+OPF+Hackathon+-+A+Practical+Approach+to+Disk+Images+and+Digital+Forensics+%28Copenhagen%29.

Registration
OPF members are invited to attend free-of charge. Non-members are welcome to 
attend at a charge of EUR225. Please register at: 
http://opf-digital-forensics.eventbrite.com/.

*OPF Hackathon: Tackling Real-World Collection Challenges with Digital 
Forensics Tools and Methods* We will also be hosting a second event on Digital 
Forensics at the University of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA on 3-5 June. 
Speakers and facilitators may vary.
Registration for this event will open soon.

Kind Regards,
Rebecca McGuinness
Open Planets Foundation

[dcc-associates] National Digital Stewardship Residency Announcement

[Joy Davidson]

This opportunity may be of interest to list members.

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The Library of Congress and The Institute of Museum and Library Services are 
pleased to announce that the call for applications for the inaugural National 
Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) class will begin next week.

The NDSR program will allow ten recent graduates of Master's degree programs in 
relevant fields to complete a nine-month residency at various institutions in 
the Washington, D.C. area. The entire list of projects can currently be found 
on the NDSR Web site at 
www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsr/hosts.  Institutions 
that will be hosting residents include:

Association of Research Librarians,
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection,
Folger Shakespeare Library,
The Library of Congress,
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities / University of Maryland 
Libraries,
National Library of Medicine,
The National Security Archive,
Public Broadcasting Service,
Smithsonian Institution Archives, and
The World Bank.

Beginning in September 2013, accepted residents will attend an intensive 
two-week digital stewardship workshop at the Library of Congress. Thereafter, 
residents will begin their experience at a host institution to work on 
significant digital stewardship projects. Their projects will allow them to 
acquire hands-on knowledge and skills involving the collection, selection, 
management, long-term preservation, and accessibility of digital assets.

Additional information about NDSR can be found at 
www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsr.  Application 
instructions will be available next week.



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[dcc-associates] Interoperability Workshop - OpenAIRE

[Joy Davidson]

Apologies for cross-posting

From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On 
Behalf Of Rettberg, Najla
Sent: 22 January 2013 10:18
To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: Interoperability Workshop - OpenAIRE

There are still places left for OpenAIRE's workshop on Interoperability, in 
Minho, Portugal. 7/8 Feb.

The goal of the 2-day workshop is to explore open access, open science, discuss 
OpenAIRE's guidelines (both repositories and data) and, above all, on how 
literature and data repositories can interoperate.

Speakers from the OKFN, data centres, EuroCRIS,  the PRIME project and EUDAT 
will present how their initiatives will interoperate with the wider research 
information landscape and building blocks of research infrastructures.

Aimed at: repository managers, librarians, open science enthusiasts.

See here for the full programme 
https://www.openaire.eu/en/component/content/article/9-news-events/432

Registration is freeand, if you're sick of the snow, Braga is a lovely city!

For more information contact: 
najla.rettb...@sub.uni-goettingen.de


***
Najla Rettberg
Göttingen State and University Library
49 (0)551- 39 5242
najla.rettb...@sub.uni-goettingen.de
www.openaire.eu

[dcc-associates] FRAMING THE DIGITAL CURATION CURRICULUM

[Joy Davidson]

"FRAMING THE DIGITAL CURATION CURRICULUM": the deadline for submission of 
abstracts is approaching" 

The deadline of the call for contributions in the "Framing the digital curation 
curriculum" international conference is approaching. The conference, organised 
by the the DigCurV project, will be held from 6th to 7th of May 2013 in 
Florence.

We invite abstracts on concrete examples of training initiatives and 
educational programmes in digital curation, illustrating approaches, 
methodologies, and success stories of training addressed to an increasingly 
qualified workforce of the library, archive, museum and cultural heritage 
sectors. Topics include: lifelong learning in digital curation, current trends 
and initiatives in digital curation education, existing opportunities for 
professionals, training the trainers, approaches and methodologies, best 
practices, sustainability of training initiatives, multimodal methods of 
learning, opportunities and challenges in developing a training curriculum, 
examination of digital curation/preservation training frameworks (e.g. DigCurV 
Curriculum Framework).

The deadline for submission is the 31st of January 2013.

All the information at: 
http://www.digcur-education.org/eng/International-Conference/Call-for-Contributions

Joy Davidson
Associate Director
Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
HATII, University of Glasgow
11 University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QJ
Tel: 0141 330 8592
Email: joy.david...@glasgow.ac.uk
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/hatii

[dcc-associates] Vacancy / Secondment opportunity with the Digital Preservation Coalition

[Joy Davidson]

This vacancy with the DPC might be of interest to list members.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) seeks to recruit an experienced and 
capable member of staff to work closely with the Executive Director of the 
Coalition in a communications role. This is an exciting opportunity to work in 
a high-profile and wide-ranging role. The post has two functions: to design and 
deliver a range of communications and information-provision tasks in support of 
the DPC strategic plan; and to deliver the Coalition's commitments to a new 
international research project '4C'. Because the DPC's role in the 4C project 
is primarily concerned with communications, these functions are complementary 
and have been combined into a single post. Recruitment will be to the DPC 
offices in Glasgow or York and is available immediately for 12 months.

You will work internationally with the world's leading authorities in digital 
preservation, helping to communicate first class research, connecting leaders 
and professionals from different sectors and disciplines, and helping to 
influence public policy. You will have the opportunity to develop an 
exceptional international portfolio of professional contacts and you will gain 
experience in the operation of EC-funded research ahead of the commencement of 
the 80bn Euro investment in the Horizon 2020 programme.

You will have strong communication skills with experience of new media, but 
with enough knowledge of digital preservation - or with a proven capacity to 
learn quickly - in order that you can support and engage others with the 
outcomes of cutting edge research.

DPC welcomes proposals from its members about secondments of existing staff.

For more details, please see the DPC website at 
http://dpconline.org/newsroom/vacancies/954-vacancy-secondment-opportunity-at-the-dpc.

Bes regards,
Joy

Joy Davidson
Associate Director
Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
HATII, University of Glasgow
11 University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QJ
Tel: 0141 330 8592
Email: joy.david...@glasgow.ac.uk
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/hatii

[dcc-associates] iConference 2013: Early-bird registration

[Joy Davidson]

OCIAL MEDIA EXPO - Sponsored by FUSE Labs of Microsoft Research, this student 
Expo is organized around the theme of leveraging social media to foster 
lifelong learning in everyday life. It will showcase exceptional 
interdisciplinary research and development work from select information school 
programs. 

Learn more at http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/expo/. 

CONFERENCE LINKS
 
* Conference Home: http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/2013index/
* Registration: https://www.conftool.pro/iConference13/ 
* Accommodation: http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/accommodation/  
* Past Proceedings: http://www.ischools.org/site/conference/
* Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IConference
* Twitter: http://twitter.com/iConf 

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

Honorary Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University; Herman Totten, 
University of North Texas

Conference Chair: William Moen, University of North Texas

Program Co-Chairs: Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University; Martin Halbert, 
University of North Texas

Papers and Notes Co-Chairs: Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University; Martin 
Halbert, University of North Texas

Posters Chair: Catherine Blake, University of Illinois

Workshops Co-Chairs: John Carlo Bertot, University of Maryland; Paul T. Jaeger, 
University of Maryland

Alternative Events Co-Chairs: Marcia A. Mardis, The Florida State University; 
Maria Souden, University College Dublin

Research Paper Development Roundtable Chair: Martin B.H. Weiss, University of 
Pittsburgh

Doctoral Colloquium Co-Chairs: Hamid Ekbia, Indiana University; Karen Fisher, 
University of Washington; Jens-Erik Mai, University of Toronto

Early Career Colloquium Chair: Steven B. Sawyer, Syracuse University

Social Media Expo Committee: Shelly D. Farnham, Microsoft Research; Eytan Adar, 
University of Michigan; Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University; Anthony J. 
Rotolo, Syracuse University

Doctoral Dissertation Competition Committee: David Hendry, University of 
Washington; Lynne Howarth, University of Toronto; Steve Sawyer, Syracuse 
University

Information Privacy Workshop Co-Chairs: Deirdre K. Mullican, UC Berkeley; 
Allessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University

Information Privacy Workshop Steering Committee: Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie 
Mellon University; Finn Brunton, University of Michigan; Jean Camp, Indiana 
University; Robert Deng, Singapore Management University; Jens Grossklags, Penn 
State; Xu Heng, Penn State; Chris Hoofnagle, UC Berkeley; Apu Kapadia, Indiana 
University; Cliff Lampe, University of Michigan; Deirdre K. Mulligan, UC 
Berkeley; Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University; Yingjiu LI, Singapore 
Management University
Proceedings Co-Chairs: Linda Schamber, University of North Texas; Oksana 
Zavalina, University of North Texas

Proceedings Co-Chairs: Linda Schamber, University of North Texas; Oksana 
Zavalina, University of North Texas

Conference System Coordinator: Yunfei Du, University of North Texas

Program Committee:
Eileen Abels, Drexel University
Theresa Anderson, University of Technology, Sydney
Rosa Arriaga, Georgia Institute of Technology
Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
John Carlo Bertot, University of Maryland 
Randolph Bias, University of Texas
Wade Bishop, University of Kentucky
Catherine Blake, University of Illinois
Pia Borlund, Royal School of Library and Information Science Copenhagen
Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh
Joy Davidson, Glasgow University
Robert Deng, Singapore Management University
Yunfei Du, University of North Texas
Hamid Ekbia, Indiana University
Pedro Ferreira, Carnegie Mellon
Andrew Flinn, University College London
Fred Fonseca, Pennsylvania State University
Maria Gade, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
Steve Howard, University of Melbourne
Paul T. Jaeger, University of Maryland
Heikki Keskustalo, University of Tampere
Anita Komlodi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Cory Knobel, University of California, Irvine
Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University
Jens-Erik Mai, University of Toronto
Marcia A. Mardis, The Florida State University;
Eden Medina, Indiana University
Eric Meyers, University of British Columbia
Karine Nahon, University of Washington
Arcot Rajasekar (Raja), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lionel Robert, University of Michigan
Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University
Steve Sawyer, Syracuse University
Linda Schamber, University of North Texas
Maria Souden, University College Dublin
Mega M. Subramaniam, University of Maryland
Elaine Toms, University of Sheffield
Herman Totten, University of North Texas
Martin B.H. Weiss, University of Pittsburgh
Judith Wusteman, University College Dublin
Iris Xie, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Learn more at: http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/2013index/

[dcc-associates] iConference 2013: Early-bird registration

[Joy Davidson]

ng social media to foster 
lifelong learning in everyday life. It will showcase exceptional 
interdisciplinary research and development work from select information school 
programs. 

Learn more at http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/expo/. 

CONFERENCE LINKS
 
* Conference Home: http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/2013index/
* Registration: https://www.conftool.pro/iConference13/ 
* Accommodation: http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/accommodation/  
* Past Proceedings: http://www.ischools.org/site/conference/
* Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IConference
* Twitter: http://twitter.com/iConf 

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

Honorary Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University; Herman Totten, 
University of North Texas

Conference Chair: William Moen, University of North Texas

Program Co-Chairs: Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University; Martin Halbert, 
University of North Texas

Papers and Notes Co-Chairs: Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University; Martin 
Halbert, University of North Texas

Posters Chair: Catherine Blake, University of Illinois, Elaine Toms, University 
of Sheffield

Workshops Co-Chairs: John Carlo Bertot, University of Maryland; Paul T. Jaeger, 
University of Maryland

Alternative Events Co-Chairs: Marcia A. Mardis, The Florida State University; 
Maria Souden, University College Dublin

Research Paper Development Roundtable Chair: Martin B.H. Weiss, University of 
Pittsburgh

Doctoral Colloquium Co-Chairs: Hamid Ekbia, Indiana University; Karen Fisher, 
University of Washington; Jens-Erik Mai, University of Toronto

Early Career Colloquium Chair: Steven B. Sawyer, Syracuse University

Social Media Expo Committee: Shelly D. Farnham, Microsoft Research; Eytan Adar, 
University of Michigan; Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University; Anthony J. 
Rotolo, Syracuse University

Doctoral Dissertation Competition Committee: David Hendry, University of 
Washington; Lynne Howarth, University of Toronto; Steve Sawyer, Syracuse 
University

Information Privacy Workshop Co-Chairs: Deirdre K. Mullican, UC Berkeley; 
Allessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University

Information Privacy Workshop Steering Committee: Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie 
Mellon University; Finn Brunton, University of Michigan; Jean Camp, Indiana 
University; Robert Deng, Singapore Management University; Jens Grossklags, Penn 
State; Xu Heng, Penn State; Chris Hoofnagle, UC Berkeley; Apu Kapadia, Indiana 
University; Cliff Lampe, University of Michigan; Deirdre K. Mulligan, UC 
Berkeley; Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University; Yingjiu LI, Singapore 
Management University
Proceedings Co-Chairs: Linda Schamber, University of North Texas; Oksana 
Zavalina, University of North Texas

Proceedings Co-Chairs: Linda Schamber, University of North Texas; Oksana 
Zavalina, University of North Texas

Conference System Coordinator: Yunfei Du, University of North Texas

Program Committee:
Eileen Abels, Drexel University
Theresa Anderson, University of Technology, Sydney
Rosa Arriaga, Georgia Institute of Technology
Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
John Carlo Bertot, University of Maryland 
Randolph Bias, University of Texas
Wade Bishop, University of Kentucky
Catherine Blake, University of Illinois
Pia Borlund, Royal School of Library and Information Science Copenhagen
Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh
Joy Davidson, Glasgow University
Robert Deng, Singapore Management University
Yunfei Du, University of North Texas
Hamid Ekbia, Indiana University
Pedro Ferreira, Carnegie Mellon
Andrew Flinn, University College London
Fred Fonseca, Pennsylvania State University
Maria Gade, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
Steve Howard, University of Melbourne
Paul T. Jaeger, University of Maryland
Heikki Keskustalo, University of Tampere
Anita Komlodi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Cory Knobel, University of California, Irvine
Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University
Jens-Erik Mai, University of Toronto
Marcia A. Mardis, The Florida State University;
Eden Medina, Indiana University
Eric Meyers, University of British Columbia
Karine Nahon, University of Washington
Arcot Rajasekar (Raja), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lionel Robert, University of Michigan
Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University
Steve Sawyer, Syracuse University
Linda Schamber, University of North Texas
Maria Souden, University College Dublin
Mega Subramanian, University of Maryland
Elaine Toms, University of Sheffield
Herman Totten, University of North Texas
Martin B.H. Weiss, University of Pittsburgh
Judith Wusteman, University College Dublin
Iris Xie, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Learn more at: http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/2013index/







Joy Davidson
Associate Director
Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
HATII, University of Glasgow
11 University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QJ
Tel: 0141 330 8592
Email: joy.david...@glasgow.ac.uk
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/hatii

[dcc-associates] New projects helping lay the foundations for biology breakthroughs

[Joy Davidson]

The following news release may be of interest to list members. 

-Original Message-
From: Joy Davidson 
Sent: 17 November 2012 14:56
To: dcc3-st...@lists.ed.ac.uk
Subject: New projects helping lay the foundations for biology breakthroughs

Ten new projects, announced today by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences 
Research Council (BBSRC), will help researchers develop and maintain the 
infrastructure and resources that are vital for modern bioscience. The projects 
represent a £5.5M investment by BBSRC to ensure that the bioscience community 
is equipped to help meet some of the biggest challenges that we face as a 
society.

The projects are being supported through the Bioinformatics and Biological 
Resources fund which aims to provide scientists with important resources such 
as databases, new software tools and libraries. These are essential tools for 
modern data-driven biology.

Professor Douglas Kell, BBSRC Chief Executive, said "Many of the exciting 
breakthroughs that have been achieved by modern biology have only been possible 
because of advances in technology. Developing new tools and techniques to allow 
us to make the most of the vast amounts of data that bioscience produces is a 
vital and often underappreciated aspect of research. Projects like these are 
allowing scientists to make major insights and solve previously intractable 
puzzles at unprecedented speed."

One of the funded projects, led by researchers at the European Bioinformatics 
Institute (EMBL), will provide a central repository for models to be shared 
amongst biologists. Researchers will be able to browse available models via a 
website and then download them for use in their own work. Making these models 
more accessible promises to help scientists understand how biological systems 
work and could help researchers in fields including drug discovery and 
synthetic biology.

Another project, led by the University of Dundee, aims to provide scientists in 
140 countries with the tools to take raw genetic sequence data and make 
predictions about the structure and function of the proteins that they might 
encode. This will help researchers to make better use of the enormous volumes 
of DNA sequence data that are generated in modern bioscience. 

A community resource in wheat transformation is also being funded at the 
National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB). The aim is to provide plant 
scientists with access to the best public wheat transformation system currently 
available anywhere in the world. The resource could help increase wheat yields 
in the face of food security challenges.

The ten funded projects are:

Professor Bonnie Ann Wallace , Birkbeck College, and Dr Robert Janes, Queen 
Mary, University of London - The Protein Circular Dichroism Data Bank, the 
DichroWeb Server, and ValiDichro: Data Sharing, Analysis and Standards 
Resources for CD Spectroscopy Dr Alex Bateman and Dr Paul Kersey, EMBL European 
Bioinformatics Institute - The RNA central database of non-coding RNAs 
Professor Michael J Sternberg, Imperial College London - Maintaining and 
extending PHYRE2 to deliver an internationally-recognised resource for protein 
model Professor Pedro Mendes, University of Manchester - COPASI - Open source 
software for advanced biochemical network modelling Professor Thomas Freeman, 
University of Edinburgh, and Dr Anton Enright, EMBL European Bioinformatics 
Institute - Development of a Rapid Processing Pipeline and Graph-based 
Visualization for the Analysis of Next Generation Sequencing Data Professor 
Peter Ghazal, University of Edinburgh - The SPRINT approach to network biology 
Dr Nicolas Le Novere, EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute - BioModels 
Database, the comprehensive resource for computational models in biology Mr 
Henning Hermjakob, EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute - DAS in the age of 
data-driven research Professor Andy Greenland, National Institute of 
Agricultural Botany (NIAB) - A community resource in wheat transformation 
Professor Geoffrey Barton, University of Dundee - The Dundee Resource for 
Protein Structure Prediction and Sequence Analysis.

http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/research-technologies/2012/121116-pr-new-projects-biology-breakthroughs.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bbsrc+%28BBSRC+-+News+stories+and+features%29
 

Joy Davidson
Associate Director
Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
HATII, University of Glasgow
11 University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QJ
Tel: 0141 330 8592
Email: joy.david...@glasgow.ac.uk
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/hatii

[dcc-associates] Research data management survey

[Joy Davidson]

This survey and eventual results may be of interest to list members. 

Best regards,
Joy 

Joy Davidson
Associate Director
Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
HATII, University of Glasgow
11 University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QJ
Tel: 0141 330 8592
Email: joy.david...@glasgow.ac.uk
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/hatii

-Original Message-
From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk]
On Behalf Of Stephen Pinfield
Sent: 13 November 2012 14:05
To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: Research data management survey

Dear colleagues

You are invited to take part in a survey on library roles in research data
management:

https://survey.shef.ac.uk/limesurvey/index.php?sid=41119&lang=en

We would be grateful if you could complete the survey as soon as possible and 
no later than Friday 30 November. We estimate it should take about 10 to
15 minutes to fill in the survey, although if you provide fuller responses in 
the comments boxes (which would be very welcome) it may take a little longer.

The survey has been designed to give the community a clear picture of the 
extent to which libraries are currently involved in research data management
(RDM)
work, and the extent to which they regard different aspects of RDM to be 
strategic priorities for the next three years.

As you will know, RDM is a key issue for many HE libraries present. We believe 
that the results of the survey will therefore be of direct interest to 
colleagues in UK HE libraries and beyond, and we hope that we can use the data 
as a benchmark to measure developments in future. We are hoping all of this 
will mean that we get a good response. We will share the results with 
participants as soon as we can.

This work is being carried out by Sheffield Information School as part of a 
wider set of activities in the areas of RDM and open data. These also include 
the JISC-funded RDMRose project led by Andrew Cox, which is developing training 
materials to help develop skills in RDM for library and information 
professionals. We expect these training materials to be available in the New 
Year.

Do contact me if you have any questions about the survey or any other work we 
are carrying out.

Apologies for any cross posting.

Best wishes
Stephen


Dr Stephen Pinfield, Senior Lecturer, Information School, University of 
Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK. E:
s.pinfi...@sheffield.ac.uk, T: +44 (0)114 222 2649. W:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/is/staff/pinfield. LinkedIn:
http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/stephen-pinfield/36/b04/831

[dcc-associates] FW: The Importance of Repository EC- (OpenAire) and RCUK-Compliance Tags for Mandate Compliance Verification

[Joy Davidson]

This post about DSpace 3.0 from the JISC Repositories list may be of interest 
to list members.

Best regards,
Joy

From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On 
Behalf Of Stevan Harnad
Sent: 05 November 2012 18:27
To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: Re: The Importance of Repository EC- (OpenAire) and RCUK-Compliance 
Tags for Mandate Compliance Verification


-- Forwarded message --
From: Tim Donohue mailto:tdono...@duraspace.org>>
Date: Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] The Importance of Repository EC- (OpenAire) and 
RCUK-Compliance Tags for Mandate Compliance Verification

Hi DSpace Users,

I just wanted to follow up to this request to let everyone know that, as of 
DSpace 3.0 (coming in late November / early December), DSpace has a completely 
rewritten OAI-PMH interface which is now compliant with both OpenAIRE 
(http://www.openaire.eu/) and DRIVER (http://www.driver-support.eu/).

This new feature for DSpace 3.0 was provided by Lyncode 
(http://www.lyncode.com) and our latest DSpace Committer, João Melo.

More information on this brand new OAI-PMH interface (nicknamed "OAI 2.0") can 
be found in the DSpace 3.0 documentation at:

https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC3x/OAI
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC3x/OAI+2.0+Server

If any DSpace Users would like to try out this new, or help us test the new 
OAI-PMH interface in general, we are holding a second testathon this week.

You can test things on our demo server: http://demo.dspace.org/
OR
You can download DSpace 3.0 Release Candidate #3 and install it locally to 
test: 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/files/DSpace%20Release%20Candidate/3.0-rc3/

More info on Testathon is at: 
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+3.0+Testathon+Page

Thanks!

- Tim

On 11/4/2012 12:32 PM, Stevan Harnad wrote:
/**Cross-Posted **/


It is extremely important for the success of both funder and
institutional OA mandates worldwide that eprints, dspace and all other
repositories be made compliant with funder harvesting requirements such
as those of OpenAIRE  (as Eloy Rodrigues
indicates in the passage appended after this message).

For deposit mandates to work, they need to have /a reliable and
date-stamped compliance verification mechanism/.

*/Plea to repository managers and software developers //world-wide/: *

This is the time to make sure that your repositories implement the
requisite metadata tags for specifying the funding agency (US, EU or
RCUK) as well as the article's journal acceptance date).

A system must be designed for ensuring that the mandate will actually be
complied with, which means that there has to be an effective, timely
monitoring mechanism, with swift feedback and consequences in case of
non-compliance.

That means that immediate-deposit of full-text upon acceptance for
publication has to be monitored continuously, based on authors' ongoing
publication calendar dates not just retrospectively in 4-6-year batches.

If compliance is instead left to the the latter -- long-delayed
retrospective batches -- then even the talk about a "6-12-month embargo"
becomes meaningless! Embargos can only be observed if publication dates
are observed, and hence if deposits, whether embargoed or unembargoed,
are immediate. That's how deposit-date needs to be integrated into RCUK
authors' annual work-flow, including the all-important date-stamping by
the official date of the journal's letter of acceptance -- not the
wildly varying and incalculable date on which the journal issue actually
appears -- which is in turn often far from the calendar date of
publication: as much as a year or more at times.)

The EC's and RCUK's  mandates have to be integrated with institutional
mandates so as to implement the following 8 shared conditions:

(1) *immediate-deposit* (even if access to the deposit is allowed to
be embargoed):
(2) of the *final peer-reviewed draft*
(3) on the *date of acceptance* by the journal (which is marked by a
verifiable calendar date-stamp)
(4) and the immediate-deposit must be directly in the *author's own
institutional repository* (not institution-externally -- central
repositories can harvest from IRs)
(5) so that immediate-deposit can be *monitored and verified by the
author's institution* (regardless of whether the mandate is from a
funder or the institution)
(6) as a *funding compliance condition* and/or an *institutional
employment condition*
(7) and institutional repository must be designated as the *sole
locus of deposit * for submitting publications for institutional
performance evaluation, funder conditions and national research
assessment.
(8) Repository deposits must be monitored so as to generate *rich
and visible metrics of usage and citation* so as to verify and
reward authors' deposits as well as to showcase and arch

[dcc-associates] British Library leads the way for sharing research data in the UK as five major institutions sign up to DataCite

[Joy Davidson]

British Library leads the way for sharing research data in the UK as five major 
institutions sign up to DataCite
http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/Press-Releases/British-Library-leads-the-way-for-sharing-research-data-in-the-UK-as-five-major-institutions-sign-up-to-DataCite-5d5.aspx

Five major research centres have expanded their commitment to make data more 
accessible through the British Library's DataCite service, a global initiative 
which addresses the problem of how to find, access and re-use the results of 
research. The Archaeology Data Service, the UK Data Archive, the Natural 
Environment Research Council, the Science & Technology Facilities Council and 
the Chinese genomics institute BGI have signed up to the service and are the 
first institutions to work with the British Library on this initiative.

Data from the participating organisations, which spans information derived from 
ice cores to gene sequences, cultural heritage to current populations, will be 
marked with DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) to enable it to be identified and 
cited, a system which has been widely used to provide persistent links to 
academic journal articles. This initiative provides a practical solution to one 
of the most significant challenges facing researchers today - access to data - 
an issue highlighted by the Royal Society in a report published in June this 
year, 'Science as an open enterprise', which recommended that scientists should 
communicate the data they collect in fieldwork and research more widely. 

The benefits for researchers include:

■ Confidence that the link to the data (or information about the data) will be 
persistently and uniquely identified
■  Increased ease of citing data which will, in turn, increase its discovery 
and access, enabling others to verify the results and validate their own 
research
■ Access to a myriad of new research opportunities which have been out-of-reach 
until now
■ Acknowledgement and credit for sharing data and having it cited

"Enabling researchers to cite data, along with journal articles and other 
references, is becoming increasingly important, and DataCite has the potential 
to transform the way scientists communicate their research." said Dr Lee-Ann 
Coleman, Head of Science, Technology and Medicine at the British Library. "As 
an institution dedicated to providing information, as well as practical support 
to researchers, we believe that the British Library DataCite service is 
addressing some of the barriers to data sharing. We hope that the decision of 
these five institutions to participate will attract others to become involved, 
and will mark an important step towards changing community norms about sharing 
resources."

Professor Julian Richards, Director of the Archaeology Data Service, one of the 
newly signed-up data centres, said: "Digital archives are the primary record of 
many archaeological sites now destroyed, but researchers seeking to verify 
interpretations have been faced with a mountain of unpublished grey literature 
fieldwork reports and archives, which it has been impossible to access and 
reference. The decision to use DataCite is a significant step forward to 
resolving this problem, and will be transformational in getting archaeological 
research out to more people."

Joy Davidson
Associate Director
Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
HATII, University of Glasgow
11 University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QJ
Tel: 0141 330 8592
Email: joy.david...@glasgow.ac.uk
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/hatii

[dcc-associates] FW: Job opportunity - Web development at University of London

[Joy Davidson]

This post at ULCC may be of interest to list members. 

-Original Message-
From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On 
Behalf Of Richard M. Davis
Sent: 30 October 2012 14:07
To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: Job opportunity - Web development at University of London

*Apologies for cross-posting.*


Dear all

We have a vacancy for an experienced Web developer to help with some exciting 
projects, new and old. Please pass on, forward, retweet, etc, to anyone who may 
be interested.

The short version is below; the link will take you to the full version.

Regards

Richard



 Original Message 

*Database and Web Applications Developer (Ref: 102/12)*

University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) is looking for a dynamic and 
experienced Web and Database Developer to join its expanding team of 
specialists in academic and research technologies.

ULCC is involved in a wide range of projects and services for the HE and 
cultural heritage sectors, in the UK and internationally, including systems for 
digital archives, libraries and research repositories. Our current and recent 
projects have included work on social networking, Web archiving, digital 
preservation, linked data, text-mining, and e-books.

The successful candidate will be expected to make a substantial contribution to 
two exciting new projects developing online tools for collaborative 
transcription, extending the work of the award-winning Transcribe Bentham 
project (a partnership with University College London). You will also be 
expected to contribute to our work on managing digital repositories for many 
London-based HEIs, and contribute proactively to new opportunities.

[...]

Full details at: http://is.gd/ulccwebdev2012



--
Richard M. Davis
  Manager, Digital Archives / Research Technologies University of London 
Computer Centre (ULCC)
  Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

t: +44 (0) 20 7863 1350
e: r.da...@ulcc.ac.uk
w: http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/
b: http://dablog.ulcc.ac.uk/
c: http://tinyurl.com/richardscalendar

*Save electrons* "When replying to a message, include enough original material 
to be understood but no more." (RFC 1855)

The University of London is an exempt charity in England and Wales and a 
charity registered in Scotland (reg. no. SC041194)

[dcc-associates] DPC / DCC 'What's New - Issue 50' now published

[Joy Davidson]

Dear All,

Digital Preservation Coalition and the Digital Curation Centre are delighted to 
announce the release of Issue 50 of 'What's new'
http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/whats-new/933-whats-new-issue-50-nov-2012

In this issue:
What's On - Forthcoming events from November 2012 onwards
What's New - New reports and initiatives since the last issue
What's What - The 2012 Digital Preservation Awards
Who's Who - Sixty Second Interview with Ant Miller, BBC
One World - Digital Preservation in Saudi Arabia, Mohamed Ba-Essa and Richard 
Johnson, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Your Views  - Comments and views from readers

What's New is a joint production of the DPC and DCC.

--
Joy Davidson
Associate Director
Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
HATII, University of Glasgow
11 University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QJ
Tel: 0141 330 8592
Email: joy.david...@glasgow.ac.uk
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/hatii

[dcc-associates] OPF Hackathon announcement

[Joy Davidson]

This event may be of interest to list members.

OPF Hackathon: Emulation, learn from the experts
13-15 November 2012
University of Freiburg, Germany

Registration is now open for the next OPF Hackathon: Emulation, learn from the 
experts, at: http://opfemulation.eventbrite.co.uk/.

This event will consider emulation from a practical implementation perspective. 
The purpose is not to repeat the academic discussion on emulation as a 
preservation strategy - nor to build an emulation stack for full-fledged 
preventive preservation. The hackathon aims to focus on emulation as a 
preservation method for long-term access, working with real-life test-cases. 
Please also see Bram's blog post on the background to the emulation event: 
http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2012-08-27-emulation-hackathon.

Who Should Attend and Why?
Anyone wishing to learn about emulation from some of the leading experts in the 
digital preservation community.

Practitioners interested in:

· Learning more about emulated environments and their role in 
presenting digital content in its original context.

· The use of emulation to provide access to complex digital material.

· How emulation can play a role in your digital preservation workflow.

Developers interested in:

· How to set up a simple emulation infrastructure.

Anyone interested in:

· Sharing real life emulation use cases.

· Contributing to defining used cases for future development.

· Learning about the results of emulation R&D projects (KEEP, Planets, 
bw FLA).

· Seeing demonstrations of, and getting hands on experience of 
emulators.

· Preservation metadata for emulation environments.


Attendees are expected to participate in the event, please bring the following 
if possible:

· Any examples of content that presents rendering problems.

· Potential uses cases for emulation in their organisation.

· Your laptop, with preferred development environment if applicable.

Agenda topics:

· Practical use-cases / challenges

· Access strategies

· Metadata and representation information

· Scalable and sustainable emulation

· New challenges in the field

· Project presentations

· The full agenda will be available soon.

Registration
Registration is now open at: http://opfemulation.eventbrite.co.uk.  OPF members 
are invited to attend free-of-charge (please use the code issued to your main 
point of contact at your organisation). Non-members are welcome at the rate of 
EUR 200.00.

Location
Faculty of Engineering/Technische Fakultät Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Freiburg Georges-Köhler-Allee 101
79110 Freiburg
Building: 101

http://www.uni-freiburg.de/universitaet/kontakt-und-wegweiser/lageplaene/technischefakultaet

For more information, please visit the OPF event wiki pages: 
http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/KB/2012-11-13+OPF+Hackathon+-+Emulation%2C+learn+from+the+experts.



Rebecca McGuinness
Membership and Communications Manager


Open Planets Foundation
c/o The British Library, Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 7BQ
Tel: +44 (0)1937 546 013Mobile: +44 (0)7769 706 162
Web: http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/
Twitter: @openplanets
OPF email list: subscribe

[dcc-associates] FW: Jorum team still recruiting!

[Joy Davidson]

Of possible interest to list members.

From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On 
Behalf Of Louise Egan
Sent: 20 September 2012 11:59
To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: Jorum team still recruiting!

***Apologies for Cross Posting***

Dear Colleagues

Further to our initial posting for new job roles available (see below), we have 
managed to extend the deadline for the Jorum Web developer role for a further 
two weeks.  We are seeking a Ruby on Rails enthusiast, with a penchant for 
software and web development.

If this sounds like you, please get in touch.

Full Job and application details can be found at: http://mimas.ac.uk/about/jobs/

Closing date: 3rd October.

Please feel free to pass this on.

Kind regards

Louise



** Please note my working hours below **

Tuesday: 8.30am - 5.30pm
Wednesday - Friday: 9.00am - 4.00pm

Louise Egan
Mimas Marketing and Communications
Mimas, 5th floor Roscoe Building
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL

T: 0161 275 6931
E: louise.e...@manchester.ac.uk
W: http://mimas.ac.uk
Twitter: http://twitter.com/MimasNews






From: Open Educational Resources [mailto:oer-disc...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf 
Of Sarah Currier
Sent: 09 August 2012 18:28
To: oer-disc...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: Jorum Team recruiting: Educational Technologist and Developer needed

Hi all,

Those of you who read Jackie Carter's recent blog post announcing a new era for 
Jorum on 1st August 
(http://www.jorum.ac.uk/blog/post/42/thirty-one-years-since-mtv-launched-with-video-killed-the-radio-star)
 may have also noted that we are moving forward with a re-constituted team. We 
are now recruiting. Educational technologists (whether you are from an 
e-learning, digital library or repositories background) and developers (Ruby on 
Rails a particular advantage) look here: 
http://www.jorum.ac.uk/news/two-new-jorum-roles-available

Or read on to see a bit more about the team you'd be joining:

Since I started working for Jorum in December 2011, I've been really enjoying 
working hard to ensure Jorum lives up to its potential; I've been associated in 
one way and another since they first set up the experimental Jorum project way 
back in.. way back. We also have a great Technical Manager in Ben Ryan whose 
experience with repositories for learning and teaching goes back to the 
earliest days too. Laura Skilton (nee Shaw), who has been leading Jorum ably 
for years, has taken on a challenging role for which she is very well suited: 
Business Development Manager; like many JISC activities we need to start 
thinking about expanding our potential funding opportunities. And we have a 
number of people within Mimas working with us on all kinds of admin, comms, 
graphic design, helpdesk support, etc.

Now we need to round out the team with two developers and one educational 
technologist, all full-time until end of July 2013. We've just filled one of 
the developer posts internally from Manchester University's Research Computing 
Services (http://www.rcs.manchester.ac.uk/): Anja Le Blanc, most recently of 
the European project HELIO: http://www.helio-vo.eu/. Among her impressive 
credentials includes more mundane but much needed experience installing and 
maintaining Wordpress - so we can finally move the Jorum website and blog to a 
more up-to-date platform (the repository will stay with DSpace, with a new 
Front End coming, built on our API).

That leaves web developer and educational technologist roles still to fill. 
Please see our news item here: 
http://www.jorum.ac.uk/news/two-new-jorum-roles-available - and pass it far and 
wide.

Happy to answer any queries off-list. Ben's the contact for the developer role: 
benjamin.r...@manchester.ac.uk

Best wishes,
Sarah

--

Sarah Currier  |  Jorum Service Manager

Mimas  |  Roscoe Building (5th Floor)  |  Oxford Road  |  The University of 
Manchester  |  Manchester  |  United Kingdom  |  M13 9PL

Tel.: +44 (0)161 275 6034 (ext. 56034)  |  Mob.: +44 (0)7980855801

E-mail: sarah.curr...@manchester.ac.uk

Skype & Twitter: morageyrie

[dcc-associates] Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation

[Joy Davidson]

Posted on behalf of Katherine Skinner, Educopia Institute.
**
Please excuse cross-posting.

We are pleased to announce the publication of Aligning National Approaches to 
Digital Preservation, edited by Nancy Y. McGovern (Volume Editor).
http://www.educopia.org/publications

On May 23-25 2011, more than 125 delegates from more than 20 countries gathered 
in Tallinn, Estonia, for the “Aligning National Approaches to Digital 
Preservation<http://www.educopia.org/events/ANADP>” conference. At the National 
Library of Estonia, this group explored how to create and sustain international 
collaborations to support the preservation of our collective digital cultural 
memory. Organized and hosted by the Educopia Institute, the National Library of 
Estonia, the US Library of Congress, the University of North Texas, and Auburn 
University, this gathering established a strong foundation for future 
collaborative efforts in digital preservation.

This publication contains a collection of peer-reviewed essays that were 
developed by conference panels and attendees in the months following ANADP. 
Rather than simply chronicling the event, the volume deliberately broadens and 
deepens its impact by reflecting on the ANADP presentations and conversations 
and establishing a set of starting points for building a greater alignment 
across digital preservation initiatives. Above all, it highlights the need for 
strategic international collaborations to support the preservation of our 
collective cultural memory.

This guide is written with a broad audience in mind that includes librarians, 
archivists, scholars, curators, technologists, lawyers, researchers, and 
administrators at many different types of memory organizations.

Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation is the second of a series 
of volumes edited by Katherine Skinner (Series Editor) and published by the 
Educopia Institute describing successful collaborative strategies and 
articulating new models that may help memory organizations work together for 
their mutual benefit.

Readers may access Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation as a 
freely downloadable pdf and/or as a print publication for purchase. Please 
visit http://www.educopia.org/publications to download or order the book.

Authors include:
Martha Anderson, Inge Angevaare, Dwayne Buttler, Laura Campbell, Sheila 
Corrall, George Coulbourne, Joy Davidson, Christian Egger, Michelle Gallinger, 
David Giaretta, Neil Grindley, Martin Halbert, Jan Hutar, President Toomas 
Hendrik Ilves, Christopher A. Lee, Maurizio Lunghi, Clifford Lynch, Nancy Y. 
McGovern, Marek Melichar, Wilma Mossink, Adrienne Muir, Andreas Rauber, Adam 
Rusbridge, Raivo Ruusalepp, Gunnar Sahlin, Sabine Schrimpf, Matt Schultz, 
Michael Seadle, Katherine Skinner, Bohdana Stoklasova, Aaron Trehub, Bram van 
der Werf, and Matthew Woolard




--
Katherine Skinner, PhD
Executive Director, Educopia Institute
katherine.skin...@metaarchive.org<mailto:katherine.skin...@metaarchive.org>
404 783 2534

[dcc-associates] Researcher vacancy: Accessing and Using Big Data to Advance Social Science Knowledge

[Joy Davidson]

The following vacancy at OII may be of interest to list members.

*
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/newpositions/ 

Job title: Researcher
Vacancy: 103705
Grade and salary: Grade 7 (?29,249-35,938 p.a.)
Hours: Full time
Contract type: Fixed-term (20 months from 1 October 2012) Reporting to: Eric T. 
Meyer Research topic: Accessing and Using Big Data to Advance Social Science 
Knowledge Funding partners: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

The Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford is looking for a 
full-time Researcher to work on the newly funded project, "Accessing and Using 
Big Data to Advance Social Science Knowledge". The project will use mixed 
methods to follow 'big data' from its public and private origins through open 
and closed pathways into the social sciences, and document and shape the ways 
they are being accessed and used to create new knowledge about the social world 
and the behaviour of human beings. This will be done primarily through five 
case studies, interviews of approximately 125 participants, and observations of 
data scientists in their workplaces.
Applicants should hold a PhD in information science, sociology, anthropology, 
political science, internet studies, or related disciplines, have a strong 
interest in the social aspects of online technologies and proven experience in 
qualitative and quantitative research. The successful candidate will work with 
a multidisciplinary team of researchers, and will be able to take a lead in 
project management, data collection and analysis, and the dissemination of 
results.

This position is available from 1st October 2012 for 20 months.

The closing date for applications is 12:00 BST on Wednesday 22 August 2012 and 
only applications received before then can be considered.

Details of how to apply are online at 
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/newpositions/

Eric T. Meyer
Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 
eric.me...@oii.ox.ac.uk
Web: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=120
SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=912385

[dcc-associates] FW: Examples of Digital Library roles and staffing structures wanted.

[Joy Davidson]

From: International (Digital) Curation Education [mailto:i...@jiscmail.ac.uk] 
On Behalf Of Gail.James
Sent: 22 June 2012 15:22
To: i...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Examples of Digital Library roles and staffing structures wanted.

Dear Joy,
Please distribute the post to your contacts, we will welcome more input.
Kind regards
Gail


From: Joy Davidson [mailto:joy.david...@glasgow.ac.uk]
Sent: 22 June 2012 14:34
To: i...@jiscmail.ac.uk<mailto:i...@jiscmail.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Examples of Digital Library roles and staffing structures wanted.

Hi Gail,

Do you mind if I share your post with a few of the other UK lists? In response 
to EPSRC's research data policy requirements, there is a lot of interest within 
UK HEIs at the moment  on developing sustainable infrastructures to support 
data management and curation.

Best regards,
Joy

Joy Davidson
Associate Director
Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
HATII, University of Glasgow
11 University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QJ
Tel: 0141 330 8592
Email: joy.david...@glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:joy.david...@glasgow.ac.uk>
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/hatii


From: International (Digital) Curation Education [mailto:i...@jiscmail.ac.uk] 
On Behalf Of Gail.James
Sent: 22 June 2012 09:25
To: i...@jiscmail.ac.uk<mailto:i...@jiscmail.ac.uk>
Subject: Examples of Digital Library roles and staffing structures wanted.

Open University Library Services are building a new preservation-quality 
Digital Library, the Open University Digital Library.  The digital library will 
contain collections made up of text, images, audio, video and websites drawn 
from the OU's 40 years as a distance-learning institution. Information about 
the new OUDL can be found on our blog at 
www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OUDL<http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OUDL>
We are currently investigating the skills and staff competencies needed to 
maintain and sustain a digital library and are therefore seeking help from 
those of you who have developed archival and preservation based Digital 
Libraries.
We are particularly interested in examples of Digital Library staffing 
structures, and ask if you would be willing to share any examples of the 
descriptions of roles, skills and competences in your library that might be of 
use to us in developing our services.  In return, we will share our experiences 
of developing our digital library with you. We will, of course, keep as 
confidential any information you share with us.


Gail James
Digital Libraries Researcher
OUDL Project
The Library and Learning Resources Centre
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA

Email: o...@open.ac.uk<mailto:o...@open.ac.uk>

The Open University is open to people, places, methods and ideas.

__

The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt 
charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).

[dcc-associates] Vacancies for Open Source specialists at OSS Watch

[Joy Davidson]

These vacancies at Oxford may be of interest to list members. 

--

Date:Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:49:15 +
From:Sander van der Waal 
Subject: Vacancies for Open Source specialists at OSS Watch

Do you have a passion for of free and open source software? Do you understand 
how open source communities work and do you enjoy working with people? 

The University of Oxford hosts OSS Watch, an open source advisory service to 
the UK higher and Further Education sector. We assist in the use and 
development of open source solutions. We are currently looking for a 
Service/Community Manager and a Development Manager. An outline of the jobs are 
shown below, and the full description and instructions on how to apply are 
posted on the jobs website [1]. Both posts are funded initially until 31st July 
2013. 

You can apply until noon (UK time) 2 July 2012, and interviews are scheduled 
for 12 and 13 July 2012. Feel free to get in touch [2] if you have any 
questions. 

For both roles, you will be a key part of an exciting project which is 
improving the methods of production of software in the UK academic sector. You 
should have relevant experience in an open and collaboratively developed open 
source project and must willing to undertake occasional travel to client sites 
and conference events. 

OSS Watch Service and Community Manager [3]

We are looking for a Service and Community Manager to lead a small team of 
specialists in delivering a national advisory service funded by JISC. 
For the community work, the main task is to encourage the sustainable adoption 
and development of open source software, where appropriate, in UK universities 
and colleges. The main focus of the role will be on community building to 
achieve longer-term sustainability for the projects and build links with wider 
open source communities. You will also lead the organisation of open innovation 
workshops and will present on community development and related open source 
topics at conferences and other events. 

OSS Watch Development Manager [4]

The Development Manager will lead our effort to actively support open 
development projects in UK institutions. We are looking for someone who will 
also actively educate the academic community about the more technical issues 
around free and open source software, helping projects proactively using the 
right tools and applying best practices of open development. OSS Watch 
encourages staff to spend an agreed amount of time on open source software 
development projects where they are compatible with the service's remit. 


Sander

[1] http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jobs/
[2] Reply to this email or mail to i...@oss-watch.ac.uk [3] 
https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=103182
[4] 
https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=103183

OSS Watch - supporting open source in education and research 
http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk

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End of OSSWATCH-ANNOUNCE Digest - 12 Jun 2012 to 13 Jun 2012 (#2012-9)
**

[dcc-associates] FW: OpenAIRE Press Release - Large-scale deposit in repositories increases access and use

[Joy Davidson]

*** Apologies for cross-posting ***
The European OpenAIRE initiative held on the 11 June the first workshop in a 
series related to "research data linked to publications" in conjunction with 
the Nordbib Conference in Copenhagen. The workshop covered research data 
policies; implementation from institutional and funder perspectives, and 
cross-linking from publications to associated data sets.
OpenAIRE took this opportunity to agree on a joint statement responding to the 
results of the recently finalized European PEER project. The statement is 
supported by UK RepositoryNet.

- Large-scale deposit in repositories increases access and use -

OpenAIRE, a European initiative co-funded by the European Commission (EC), 
welcomes the results of the PEER project, presented on the 29 May in Brussels. 
Publishers, research libraries and research organisations effectively 
collaborated in building a controlled research environment to study the effects 
of green open access. Usage research in this so-called "PEER Observatory" 
revealed that large-scale deposit of research articles results in increased 
access and use, including via the publisher website.

Norbert Lossau, Scientific Coordinator of OpenAIRE and member of the PEER 
Executive, pointed out that "the economic research of the PEER project could 
not find any evidence for the hypothesis that self-archiving affects journal 
viability". He called upon publishers, libraries and repositories to re-use the 
PEER-infrastructure for large-scale publisher-/library-assisted deposit of 
research articles: "Re-using the PEER infrastructure and stepping up the 
transition from subscription to gold open access journals will provide 
comfortable ways for researchers to comply with the important open access 
mandate of the European Commission which we expect to be expanded in Horizon 
2020".

OpenAIRE builds up a Pan-European publication Infrastructure, bringing together 
33 European countries to provide open access to European research results. It 
collects publications resulting from EC-funded projects with the aim of 
improving the visibility of European research, and supports the EC's Open 
Access Pilot. Future services deployed by OpenAIRE will include the support of 
statistics and the creation of complex publications linking from articles to 
research data. OpenAIRE collaborates with publishers, repositories and data 
providers in order to enable seamless integration of European research into 
global knowledge infrastructures.

http://www.openaire.eu/en/home/9-news-events/387-large-scale-deposit-in-repositories-increases-access-and-use

Contacts
Birgit Schmidt, OpenAIRE Scientific Manager, 
bschm...@sub.uni-goettingen.de
Najla Rettberg, OpenAIREplus Scientific Manager, 
rettb...@sub-uni-goettingen.de


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**

Dr. Birgit Schmidt

Scientific Manager



Goettingen State and University Library

- Electronic Publishing -

Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1

D-37073 Goettingen



Tel. +49 551 39-5228

Fax  +49 551 39-5222

bschm...@sub.uni-goettingen.de

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COAR www.coar-repositories.org

OpenAIRE www.openaire.eu

OAPEN www.oapen.org

Open Access www.open-access.net

[dcc-associates] FW: Digital Preservation Awards 2012

[Joy Davidson]

***Apologies for cross-posting***

From: Digital Preservation Coalition discussion list 
[mailto:dpc-discuss...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of William Kilbride
Sent: 13 June 2012 10:01
To: dpc-discuss...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: Digital Preservation Awards 2012

The Digital Preservation Coalition is delighted to announce the launch of the 
Digital Preservation Awards 2012.

'Threats to the digital estate are distinctive and new so the tools and 
processes necessary to ensure long term access - and impact - are also new', 
explained William Kilbride of the DPC. 'The DPC was established in 2002 to help 
agencies meet this new and growing challenge, and in 2004 we sponsored a small 
prize to mark outstanding contributions to the field.  It was so popular that 
we've offered the prize every other year since, and each time the quality and 
number of nominations has grown.

'This year, the award takes a new form. In the past a single award was offered 
as one of the Conservation Awards.  But because 2012 is the tenth anniversary 
of the founding of the DPC, we're offering 4 separate prizes, including a 
special 'DPC Decennial Prize' for the most outstanding contribution to digital 
preservation in the last decade.  There are also prizes for 'Teaching and 
Communication' and for 'Research and Development' as well as an innovative 
Digital Preservation Challenge being offered via the Open Planets Foundation.'

'We're calling on all our friends and colleagues - the whole digital 
preservation community - to help us get the best possible set of applications.'

'The criteria are defined broadly, encompassing any initiative that has helped 
ensure 'our digital memory is available tomorrow', and although the DPC's 
membership is in the UK and Ireland, this is an international competition.  We 
encourage all manner of proposals - projects, services, ideas, books, 
methodologies, standards, working groups and campaigns: all are welcome.'

The application pack is available online at: 
http://www.dpconline.org/advocacy/awards

The current holders are Los Alamos National Laboratory and Old Dominion 
University, who won the prize in 2010 for the Memento Project.  Other previous 
winners include the UK National Archives and the PREMIS Working Group.

Applications are due by the 17th August at which point they will be scrutinised 
by a judging panel drawn from the DPC membership.  A shortlist will  be 
announced in October and DPC members will be invited to vote for their 
favourite proposals. The winner will be announced at a special ceremony in 
London on 3rd December.


--
Dr William Kilbride FSA
Executive Director
Digital Preservation Coalition

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[dcc-associates] News release: How does big data change the research landscape for the humanities and social sciences?

[Joy Davidson]

News release
12 June 2012

How does big data change the research landscape for the humanities and social 
sciences?

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) today issued the first 
public appraisal of the Digging into Data Challenge, an international grant 
programme first funded by JISC, the US National Endowment for the Humanities 
(NEH), the US National Science Foundation and the Canadian Social Sciences and 
Humanities Research Council.

Their findings are presented in One Culture, along with a series of 
recommendations for researchers, administrators, scholarly societies, academic 
publishers, research libraries, and funding agencies. The recommendations are 
“urgent, pointed, and even disruptive,” write the authors. “To address them, we 
must recognize the impediments of tradition that hinder the contemporary 
university’s ability to adapt to, support, or sustain this emerging research 
over time.”

Read the report 

The Digging into Data Challenge was launched in 2009 to better understand how 
'big data' changes the research landscape for the humanities and social 
sciences. Scholars in these disciplines now use massive databases of materials 
that range from digitized books, newspapers, and music to transactional data 
such as web searches, sensor data, or mobile phone records. The Challenge seeks 
to discover what new, computationally based research methods might be applied 
to these sources.

In its first year, the Digging into Data Challenge made awards to eight teams 
of scholars, librarians, and computer and information scientists. Over the 
following two years, report authors Christa Williford and Charles Henry 
conducted site visits, interviews, and focus groups to understand how these 
complex international projects were being managed, what challenges they faced, 
and what project teams were learning from the experience.

Brett Bobley, chief information officer and director of the NEH Office of 
Digital Humanities, heads the Digging into Data Challenge. "Do we have big data 
in the humanities and social sciences? Yes—buckets of it,” he says. “But our 
ability to produce huge quantities of digital data has outstripped our ability 
to analyze and understand it. One Culture helps us to see not only why we would 
want a computer to assist us with our work, but how big data is changing the 
very nature of traditional humanistic research."

Co-author and CLIR president Charles Henry said, "This report discloses the 
complexity and sophistication of humanities and social sciences research in a 
digital era. It underscores the excitement and potential of new discovery 
through deep collaboration across disciplines and affirms the continuity of 
traditional values and perspectives of scholarly communication in a 
data-dependent milieu. The report also seeks to animate a collective 
responsibility to more concertedly appreciate, extend, fund, and provide 
adequate services to sustain this remarkable research."

In 2011, four additional funding bodies joined the four original cooperating 
agencies in support of fourteen new international collaborative research 
projects. These funders include the Institute of Museum and Library Services 
(US); the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK); the Economic and Social 
Research Council (UK); and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.

Stuart Dempster, director at JISC, said, “We are proud to be a partner in this 
trans-Atlantic endeavour which aims to assist individual researchers, academic 
departments, and research institutions to succeed with the ‘data deluge’ in the 
humanities. For the UK to continue to punch above its weight in terms of 
digital scholarship and research it is vital for it to collaborate in ‘smart 
partnerships,’ which foster innovation in the development of tools, skills, and 
new research findings. This report shows that success in action.”

“The CLIR report is an excellent assessment of this unique and exciting 
international partnership,” said Gisèle Yasmeen, Vice-President, Research, at 
the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. “The Digging into Data 
Challenge project is generating innovative computation and data analysis 
techniques to better advance research and we look forward to its continued 
success.”

"NSF has found the Digging into Data Challenge to be an excellent mechanism for 
enabling collaborative, data-intensive research in the social sciences and 
humanities," said Elizabeth Tran, programme officer in NSF's Office of 
International Science and Engineering. "It has significantly reduced some the 
key barriers to conducting research across borders and has resulted in a number 
of truly international outstanding research projects."

The report is available online in pdf format; an extended version with case 
studies is also available in html format. Print copies are available for 
ordering through the website: 

[dcc-associates] Johns Hopkins University Data Management Services Manager position

[Joy Davidson]

The following post may be of interest to list members. 


Colleagues,

The Johns Hopkins University Data Management Services (JHU DMS) group is hiring 
a Manager to lead the team with a focus on operational and supervisory aspects.

The JHU DMS (http://dmp.data.jhu.edu/) provides both pre-proposal consultation 
services especially related to NSF's data management plan requirement and 
post-award data curation through the JHU Data Archive.  The JHU DMS applies 
lessons learned from and technology developed by Data Conservancy 
(http://dataconservancy.org/).  This unique and innovative arrangement has 
resulted in an operational data service group working closely with a dedicated 
R&D unit to iteratively develop human and technology infrastructure for data 
management.  Johns Hopkins University provides financial support for the JHU 
DMS team which includes data management consultants, a software developer and a 
system administrator (to be hired).

The JHU DMS has already established itself as an important component of the 
overall research framework within JHU through ongoing engagements with faculty, 
graduate students, the grants office, the Vice Provost for Research and 
Research and Finance Deans of Schools within the University.  The Manager will 
work with a group of exceptional colleagues and build upon the important 
foundation that has been established at this early stage.  In addition to the 
direct results of developing data management plans and securing agreements to 
deposit data into the JHU Data Archive, the JHU DMS is steadily influencing and 
changing the culture of data stewardship and sharing within and beyond JHU and 
informing the ongoing development of Data Conservancy technology.

Further details and information about how to apply regarding this position are 
available at: 
https://hrnt.jhu.edu/jhujobs/job_view.cfm?view_req_id=52688&view=sch

Regards,

Sayeed


Associate Dean for Research Data Management Hodson Director of the Digital 
Research and Curation Center Sheridan Libraries Principal Investigator, Data 
Conservancy Director of Operations, Institute for Data Intensive Engineering 
and Sciences (IDIES) Johns Hopkins University 
say...@jhu.edu

[dcc-associates] FW: JISC questionnaire on researcher IDs, closes 7 June

[Joy Davidson]

Of possible interest for list managers. 

-Original Message-
From: Nicky Ferguson [mailto:ni...@therightplace.net] 
Sent: 01 June 2012 23:28
Subject: JISC questionnaire on researcher IDs, closes 7 June

Apologies if you have already seen this.

If you are part of the UK research community, please spend 10-15 minutes 
responding to this questionnaire from JISC. The questionnaire concerns the 
adoption in the UK of a unique ID for researchers that can be used widely 
across the online systems with which researchers and research managers 
interact. 

The questionnaire is at
http://goo.gl/15J0H

The deadline for responses is 7 June 2012. 

Please feel free to pass this invitation on to people in your own circle who 
may also wish to respond.

If you are a user of Twitter here is a “tweet length” snippet you might care to 
re-use:

UK-based researcher? A 12 minute questionnaire from JISC about UK adoption of a 
unique ID for researchers - http://goo.gl/15J0H.   Closes 7 June.

[dcc-associates] Call For Participation: iConference 2013

[Joy Davidson]

ating faculty and student 
peers. Participation in the doctoral colloquium is restricted to students who 
have applied for and been accepted into the colloquium. The colloquium will not 
be open to observers. Visit the doctoral colloquium webpage for more 
information: http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/doctoral/
Application deadline: September 24, 2012.
Notification: Mid-November.

* Early Career Colloquium: This half-day event is intended for assistant 
professors, post-docs, or others in pre-tenure positions and builds on the 
tradition of highly successful events at past iConferences. The program will 
include an introductory presentation on the tenure process, panels by recently 
tenured faculty and experienced former deans, and small group discussions to 
provide informal dialogue, guidance, and insights. Visit the early career 
colloquium webpage for more information: 
http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/jr_faculty/

* FUSE Labs iConference Social Media Expo: The iConference, in collaboration 
with FUSE Labs of Microsoft Research, is pleased to announce the first 
iConference Social Media Expo. The exposition is designed to showcase 
exceptional interdisciplinary research and development work from information 
school programs specializing in social media. Students are asked to form 
interdisciplinary teams of 3-5 students to perform research, design, 
development or community engagement exploring technological solutions to 
people's real needs around the theme of leveraging social media to foster 
lifelong learning in everyday life. A representative team from each 
participating school will be selected to attend and featured in a presentation 
at a special session of the iConference in February of 2013. Visit the Social 
Media Expo webpage for more information: 
http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/expo/
Initial notification: Letters of Interest due September 14, 2012

* New this year, the leadership of the iCaucus and the iConference 2013 
organizers have arranged for a special full-day workshop on Information 
Privacy. The workshop is being co-organized by the following iCaucus members: 
University of California, Berkeley School of Information; Carnegie Mellon 
University, Heinz College; Indiana University, School of Informatics and 
Computing; University of Michigan, School of Information; and Singapore 
Management University, School of Information Systems. The deans from each of 
these five iSchools have committed to send top faculty researchers in 
information privacy (spanning technology, management, law and policy) to 
participate. Details on how to take part will be publicized in the future.

ORGANIZERS
Honorary Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University; Herman Totten, 
University of North Texas
Conference Chair: William Moen, University of North Texas
Program Co-Chairs: Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University; Martin Halbert, 
University of North Texas

Program Committee:
Randolph Bias, University of Texas
Wade Bishop, University of Kentucky
Pia Borlund, Royal School of Library and Information Science Copenhagen
Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh
Joy Davidson, Glasgow University
Robert Deng, Singapore Management University
Pedro Ferreira, Carnegie Mellon
Andrew Flinn, University College London
Fred Fonseca, Pennsylvania State University
Maria Gade, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
Steve Howard, University of Melbourne
Heikki Keskustalo, University of Tampere
Anita Komlodi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Cory Knobel, University of California, Irvine
Eden Medina, Indiana University
Eric Meyers, University of British Columbia
Karine Nahon, University of Washington
Arcot Rajasekar (Raja), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University
Steve Sawyer, Syracuse University
Mega Subramanian, University of Maryland
Elaine Toms, University of Sheffield
Judith Wusteman, University College Dublin
Iris Xie, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Learn more at: http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/2013index/

Joy Davidson
Associate Director
Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
HATII, University of Glasgow
11 University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QJ
Tel: 0141 330 8592
Email: joy.david...@glasgow.ac.uk
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/hatii

[dcc-associates] DPC/DCC What's New Issue 44, April 2012

[Joy Davidson]

The Digital Preservation Coalition and the Digital Curation Centre are 
delighted to announced the release of 'What's New' Issue 44, April 2012.

http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/whats-new/842-whats-new-issue-44-april-2012


In this issue:
* What's On 
<http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/whats-new/842-whats-new-issue-44-april-2012#whatson44>
 - Forthcoming events from April 2012 onwards
* What's 
New<http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/whats-new/842-whats-new-issue-44-april-2012#whatsnew44>
 - New reports and initiatives since the last issue
* What's 
What<http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/whats-new/842-whats-new-issue-44-april-2012#whatswhat44>
 - Re-Skilling for Research: Observations on an RLUK report, Graham Pryor, DCC
* Who's 
Who<http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/whats-new/842-whats-new-issue-44-april-2012#whoswho44>
 - Sixty second interview with Ed Fay, LSE
* One 
World<http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/whats-new/842-whats-new-issue-44-april-2012#oneworld44>
 - Digital Preservation Management Workshops at Ten Years, Nancy McGovern, MIT 
Libraries



What's New is a joint publication of the DPC and DCC.

Best Wishes,
Joy



Joy Davidson

Associate Director

Digital Curation Centre (DCC)

HATII, University of Glasgow

11 University Gardens

Glasgow

G12 8QJ

Tel: 0141 330 8592

Email: joy.david...@glasgow.ac.uk

http://www.dcc.ac.uk

http://www.gla.ac.uk/hatii

[dcc-associates] UK university consortium gets £3.7m for HPC innovation centre

[Joy Davidson]

UK university consortium gets £3.7m for HPC innovation centre
Four British universities are sharing computing resources to encourage use of 
HPC
By Sophie Curtis | Techworld | Published: 15:00, 26 March 2012

http://news.techworld.com/data-centre/3346980/uk-university-consortium-gets-37m-for-hpc-innovation-centre/
 

The universities of Southampton, Bristol, Oxford and University College London 
have joined forces with the e-Science Centre at Rutherford Appleton 
Laboratories, to form a new Centre of Innovation for the application of High 
Performance Computing.

The consortium of universities will share computing resources including 
hardware, software applications, support services and skills to encourage wider 
use of HPC in both academia and industry. It has been awarded a total of £3.7 
million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for 
the creation and operation of the centre.

The lion's share of the funding (£2.2 million) has been awarded to the 
University of Southampton, to upgrade its Iridis3 supercomputer. A 12,000-core 
Intel Westmere-based architecture is now being installed, doubling its original 
performance and enabling more than 115 trillion calculations per second.

___

Joy Davidson
Associate Director
Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
HATII, University of Glasgow
11 University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QJ
Tel: 0141 330 8592
Email: joy.david...@glasgow.ac.uk
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/hatii

[dcc-associates] FW: Free RSP Event - Scholarly Communications: New Developments in Open Access 1st June, London

[Joy Davidson]

This RSP event may be of interest to list members.

From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On 
Behalf Of Jacqueline Wickham
Sent: 22 March 2012 11:29
To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: Free RSP Event - Scholarly Communications: New Developments in Open 
Access 1st June, London

I'm delighted to announce that the programme is now finalised for the 
Repositories Support Project event: Scholarly Communications: New Developments 
in Open Access. It will take place on 1st June 2012 at RIBA
This free event will showcase examples of innovative approaches which support 
open access to research outputs and an open approach to scholarship. This 
includes new publishing initiatives - journals and monographs, new approaches 
to peer review, data sharing, the role of repositories and the use of social 
networking tools by academics.

The day will begin with Martin Hall, Vice Chancellor of Salford University who 
will provide the keynote address "Where next with open access?" followed by 
Alma Swan, Director of European Advocacy, SPARC and Key Perspectives, on the 
Budapest Open Access Initiative at 10 - recommendations for the next ten years 
of scholarly communication.

It continues with Caren Milloy from JISC on the OAPEN-UK Project, Peter Webster 
on Open Journals at the School of Advanced Study, Simon Hodson on the work of 
JISC to support open data publication and Mark Hahnel from Figshare. It 
concludes with Graeme Moffat from Frontiers, an Open Access publisher which is 
pioneering a novel tier method of evaluation and Melissa Terras from UCL on 
using social media to disseminate research outputs.
The event offers an opportunity to find out about the latest in open access to 
research from an exciting line up of speakers.

For more information and booking: 
http://www.rsp.ac.uk/events/scholarly-communications-new-developments-in-open-access/

Best wishes
Jackie

Jackie Wickham
Open Access Adviser (Repositories Support Project)

Centre for Research Communications
University of Nottingham
A31 Greenfield Medical Library
Queens Medical Centre
Nottingham
NG7 2UH

T: +44 (0)115 8466389
F: +44 (0)115 8467577

jacqueline.wick...@nottingham.ac.uk

http://www.rsp.ac.uk
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[dcc-associates] JISCMRD Workshop: Meeting (Disciplinary) Challenges in Research Data Management Planning, Friday 23 March, London

[Joy Davidson]

-Original Message-
From: JISC Managing Research Data Programme [mailto:jisc...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On 
Behalf Of Simon HODSON
Sent: 19 March 2012 15:57
To: jisc...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: JISCMRD Workshop: Meeting (Disciplinary) Challenges in Research Data 
Management Planning, Friday 23 March, London
Importance: High

Places are still available for the JISCMRD Workshop: Meeting (Disciplinary) 
Challenges in Research Data Management Planning which will be held on Friday 23 
March.

The [Draft] Agenda for this workshop is available as a Google Doc: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1khPrdQ2JNVWYYMtHTN40TdbueJ2agpxwWMpYfiZcN6M/edit

The document also comprises appendices providing links to outputs from those 
projects specifically concerned with Research Data Management Planning: 
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/di_researchmanagement/managingresearchdata/planning.aspx
 and 
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/di_researchmanagement/managingresearchdata/dmponline.aspx

It is hoped that the workshop and agenda will be of wider interest and value to 
projects in the JISCMRD Programme.

There is plenty of space, so any interested personnel from other projects, from 
DCC IEs and from non-funded partners should feel free to attend, if interested 
in doing so.  Registration is still open at: 
https://www.eventsforce.net/jisc/190/home

Venue details are available from http://www.etcvenues.co.uk/venues/paddington

I look forward to seeing you on Friday.

Best wishes,

Simon.

*
Programme Website: http://bit.ly/jiscmrd2011-13 Community Discussion List: 
research-data...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Blog: http://researchdata.jiscinvolve.org/
Programme Tag: #jiscmrd
*
Twitter, Skype: simonhodson99
Calendar: http://bit.ly/simonhodson99-calendar
*
Dr Simon HODSON
Programme Manager - Managing Research Data JISC Executive Brettenham House 
(South Entrance)
5 Lancaster Place
London  WC2E 7EN

E: s.hod...@jisc.ac.uk
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[dcc-associates] RCUK Open Access policy

[Joy Davidson]

This news item may be of interest to list members.

RCUK plans to extend open access policy
Elizabeth Gibney
Research Fortnight Today 
Issue 3886, 16 Mar 12

Research Councils UK is considering changing its open access policies to 
mandate that all RCUK-funded papers be made freely available six months after 
publication. 

The move would extend rules already in place at the Medical Research Council, 
although initially the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Economics 
and Social Research Council would have lengthier, 12 month, periods. 

Under the plans, RCUK would produce a list of "research council compliant" 
journals, in which all wholly or partially funded projects must be published.

The changes were revealed in a draft policy published on the 
EnablingOpenScholarship website on 12 March. 

The move anticipates the findings a working group on expanding access to 
research findings, chaired by Janet Finch, professor of sociology at the 
University of Manchester and co-chair of the Council for Science and 
Technology. Her report, scheduled for publication this spring, is expected to 
propose a programme of action and make recommendations to government.

RCUK's policy states that access to articles should include unrestricted use of 
text and data mining tools. The revised guidelines would require all papers to 
include details on how to access underlying research materials. 

However, although the draft says that research council funding may be used to 
support payment of authors' fees in open access publishing, it does not go as 
far as the Wellcome Trust's policy, which extends to paying to publish even 
when a grant is used up.

The document says RCUK is "aware of the difficulties of the current system" and 
in the longer-term may revisit the model. In the meantime, it says, RCUK will 
work with institutions on how they might build an institutional open access 
fund that draws from the indirect costs on grants. 

http://www.openscholarship.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2012-03/rcuk_proposed_policy_on_access_to_research_outputs.pdf
 



Joy Davidson
Associate Director
Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
HATII, University of Glasgow
11 University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QJ
Tel: 0141 330 8592
Email: joy.david...@glasgow.ac.uk
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/hatii

[dcc-associates] FW: News release: Text mining promises huge economic and research benefit, but copyright law and other barriers are limiting its use, says JISC report

[Joy Davidson]

This JISC report offers may be of interest to list members. 

News release
14 March 2012

Text mining promises huge economic and research benefit, but copyright law and 
other barriers are limiting its use, says JISC report

A new JISC report shows that text mining - a complex and innovative method of 
searching and analysing data - has huge potential benefits for the UK economy 
and knowledge base, but its use is being held back by copyright law and other 
barriers.

Read the report 


Sir Mark Walport, the director of the Wellcome Trust, said at a related event 
last night: "This is a complete no-brainer. This is scholarly research funded 
from the public purse, largely from taxpayer and philanthropic organisations. 
The taxpayer has the right to have maximum benefit extracted and that will only 
happen if there is maximum access to it."

Text mining draws on data analysis techniques such as natural language 
processing and information extraction to find new knowledge and meaningful 
patterns within large collections. 

Torsten Reimer, JISC programme manager, explains, “Text mining is already 
producing efficiencies and new knowledge in areas as diverse as biological 
science, particle physics, media and communications. It has been used to 
hypothesise the causes of rare diseases and how pre-existing drugs could be 
used to target different diseases.

“The technique was also used recently to analyse the vast amount of text 
produced on websites, blogs and social media such as Twitter - where copyright 
holders allowed - and showed that the messages exchanged on Twitter during the 
English riots of 2011 were not to blame for inciting riots," added Torsten.

The business benefit of text mining is in identifying emerging trends, and to 
explore consumer preferences and competitor developments. Text mining is 
particularly used in larger companies as part of their customer relationship 
management strategy and in the pharmaceutical industry as part of their 
research and development strategy.  

The report shows that such techniques could enable researchers in UK 
universities to gain new knowledge that would otherwise remain undiscovered 
because there is just too much relevant literature for any one person to read. 
Such discoveries could lead to benefits for society and the economy.

The UK has a number of strengths that put it in a good position to be a key 
player in text mining development, such as the existence of good framework 
conditions for innovation and the natural advantage of its native language.

Professor Douglas Kell, chief executive of the BBSRC says, “This report shows 
the importance of implementing the recommendations of the Hargreaves Review  as 
current copyright law is also imposing restrictions, since text mining involves 
a range of computerised analytical processes which are not all readily 
permitted within UK intellectual property law. In order to be ‘mined’, text 
must be accessed, copied, analysed, annotated and related to existing 
information and understanding.  Even if the user has access rights to the 
material, making annotated copies can be illegal under current copyright law 
without the permission of the copyright holder. 

“The report also shows that text mining can add enormous value to the benefit 
of the UK economy, as long as the text is freely available and unencumbered. 
Otherwise there is a real risk that we will miss discoveries that could have 
significant social and economic impact.”

Torsten added, “These laws are inhibiting text mining’s wider usage and making 
academic institutions nervous of taking it up. Without wider usage, the 
potential for text mining to generate gains for the economy and society cannot 
be exploited and the UK economy will be less able to take advantage of its 
strong public research base. There is a danger that the UK may be left behind 
as other countries such as Japan adopt a more liberal approach that encourages 
text mining usage.”

The report identifies a number of barriers that we need to overcome to make 
best use of text mining tools in the future.  Firstly, text mining is a complex 
technical process that requires skilled staff; secondly it requires 
unrestricted access to information sources; thirdly copyright can be a barrier.

The report authors conclude that more work needs to be undertaken to raise 
awareness of the potential benefits and value of text mining to UK further and 
higher education.

An event at the Wellcome Trust last night started the process of looking at how 
publishers, researchers and policy makers can make this happen.

Read a blog post about the event 

Read the report 

[dcc-associates] DPC/DCC What's New for March 2012, Issue 43

[Joy Davidson]

The Digital Preservation Coalition and the Digital Curation Centre are 
delighted to announced the release of 'What's new' for March 2012, Issue 43.

http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/whats-new/814-whats-new-issue-43-march-2012


In this issue:
* What's On 

 - Forthcoming events from March 2012 onwards
* What's 
New
 - New reports and initiatives since the last issue
* What's 
What
 - In the Beginning Was the Word, William Kilbride, DPC
* Who's 
Who
 - Sixty second interview with Patricia Sleeman and Ed Pinsent, ULCC
* Featured 
Project
 - SPRUCE, Bo Middleton, Leeds University Library
* Your View? 

 - Comments and views from readers



What's New is a joint publication of the DPC and DCC




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Executive Director
Digital Preservation Coalition

44 (0)141 330 4522
http://www.dpconline.org/
will...@dpconline.org

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[dcc-associates] FW: Event reminder - ON LOCATION: Organizing and using geospatial information

[Joy Davidson]

This event on linking data may be of interest to list members.

From: UKEIG: the UK eInformation Group [mailto:lis-uk...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On 
Behalf Of Frances Huckle
Sent: 08 March 2012 16:47
To: lis-uk...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: Event reminder - ON LOCATION: Organizing and using geospatial 
information

ISKO UK and the BCS Location Information Specialist Group (LISG)
Thursday 29th March (14.00-18.00)

Wilkes Room - British Computer Society London Office

At this half-day event in Central London, we will hear from experts about the 
current geospatial information landscape and its challenges, some of the 
standards and frameworks that have been put into place to ensure 
interoperability and the potential for linking data. We will also hear how some 
users of GIS systems have applied them in their own organizations.

The event is free to ISKO and BCS members and to full-time students. The fee 
for non-members is just £40, payable in advance. Registration opens at 1.45, 
immediately following the ISKO UK AGM, and we shall start promptly at 2 p.m. 
The programme will be followed by a chance to network, with wine and nibbles. 
The topics and speakers are:

* The landscape and challenges of geospatial information in 2012 - Mike 
Sanderson, 1Spatial



* INSPIRE and the work of UK Location - Alex Coley, Chair of the UK Location 
Programme Architecture & Interoperability Board



* Linking geographic data for research - Jo Walsh, EDINA



* The development and application of GIS in health protection - Matt Bull, 
Health Protection Agency



* Organising and using location data in the Environment Agency - Stefan 
Carlyle, Environment Agency



* AddressBase - developing a unique national address gazetteer - Carsten 
Rönsdorf and Nick Turner, Ordnance Survey

You will find the full programme and booking details via the ISKO UK 
site. Please pass this 
invitation on to any colleagues who may be interested. We hope to see you there.
ISKO is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with the objective 
of promoting research and communication in the domain of knowledge 
organization, within the broad field of information science and related 
disciplines. Our UK emphasis is to build bridges between the research and 
practitioner communities, with the UK Chapter attracting lively and steadily 
growing audiences to its afternoon meetings. You can see past and future events 
at http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm , most with MP3 recordings.

BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, champions the global IT profession and the 
interests of individuals engaged in that profession for the benefit of all. 
Among its many specialist groups is the Location Information SG enabling BCS 
members to be well informed and understand the issues and best practices 
associated with geospatial technology, which is becoming increasingly visible 
to business and the public.

Please accept our apologies for cross posting
Fran Huckle
Secretary
ISKO UK
i...@iskouk.org

[dcc-associates] OSS Watch webinar on open source licenses tomorrow

[Joy Davidson]

This OSS webinar may be of value to anyone seeking tips on selecting open 
source licenses for software. 

-Original Message-
From: OSS Watch Announce [mailto:osswatch-annou...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of 
OSSWATCH-ANNOUNCE automatic digest system
Sent: 07 March 2012 00:09
To: osswatch-annou...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: OSSWATCH-ANNOUNCE Digest - 28 Feb 2012 to 6 Mar 2012 (#2012-3)

There is 1 message totaling 50 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. OSS Watch webinar on open source licenses tomorrow - Register now!

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Date:Tue, 6 Mar 2012 11:07:14 +
From:Sander van der Waal 
Subject: OSS Watch webinar on open source licenses tomorrow - Register now!

Dear all,

OSS Watch licensing expert Rowan Wilson will present a webinar this Wednesday 
(7th March) on the topic: "Choosing the right open source licence". 

There are many free and open source software licences, and while they all 
broadly attempt to facilitate the same things, they also have some differences. 
Some of the major differences can be grouped together into categories, and this 
talk acts as an introduction to these categories. 

Having attended this session, you will be able to understand which decisions 
you should take in order to select a licence for your code.

Delegates will take away an understanding of:

- The main categories of open source licences available
- The implications of choosing one for the future of your software


The webinar will be hosted by JISC. All the details can be found here:

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2012/03/webinaropensourcelicence.aspx 


The direct registration link is:

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2012/03/webinaropensourcelicence/registration.aspx 


We hope to see many of you at the webinar!

Sander

OSS Watch - supporting open source in education and research 
http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk

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[dcc-associates] FW: NISO and NFAIS Issue Draft for Public Comment of Recommended Practice on Supplemental Materials for Journal Articles

[Joy Davidson]

Members of the list may be interested in providing comments on this draft. 

-Original Message-
From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On 
Behalf Of Cynthia Hodgson
Sent: 06 February 2012 16:00
To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: NISO and NFAIS Issue Draft for Public Comment of Recommended Practice 
on Supplemental Materials for Journal Articles

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the National 
Federation for Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) have issued a new 
Recommended Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials, Part
A: Business Policies and Practices (NISO RP-15-201x) for public comment ending 
on February 29, 2012. 

Although supplemental materials are increasingly being added to journal 
articles, there is no recognized set of practices to guide in the selection, 
delivery, discovery, or preservation of these materials. To address this gap, 
NISO and NFAIS jointly sponsored a working group to establish best practices 
that would provide guidance to publishers and authors for management of 
supplemental materials and would solve related problems for librarians, 
abstracting and indexing services, and repository administrators. The 
Supplemental Materials project has two groups working in
tandem: one to address business practices and one to focus on technical issues. 
The draft currently available for comment includes the recommendations from the 
Business Working Group.

The Supplemental Materials project has two groups working in tandem: one to 
address business practices and one to focus on technical issues. The draft 
currently available for comment includes the recommendations from the Business 
Working Group across a wide spectrum of processes from selecting and editing 
supplemental material to hosting, referencing, metadata, and preservation.

Recommended Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials, Part
A: Business Policies and Practices is available for download from the NISO 
website at: www.niso.org/workrooms/supplemental.. Publishers, authors, 
librarians, abstracting and indexing services, and repository administrators 
are all encouraged to review and comment on this draft.



Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization hodgso...@verizon.net
301-654-2512

[dcc-associates] FW: Archaeology Data Service (ADS) Digital Archivist vacancy

[Joy Davidson]

Of possible interest to list members.

*** Apologies for Cross-Posting ***

The following might be of interest to list members.

The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) has a vacancy for a Digital Archivist for a 
fixed term of two years, commencing immediately.

The post will involve accessioning, mounting, and indexing of data collections, 
validation of data and conversion into preferred formats; curation and 
migration of digital collections; design and development of user interfaces; 
and discussion and data audits with data depositors.

You should have a first degree or postgraduate qualification in archaeology 
and/or computer science, and you should possess an exceptionally high level of 
ICT skills.

Full details and a job description (PDF) are available from the University of 
York jobs pages: 
https://jobs.york.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=3885&p_web
_page_id=142228 

Best wishes,
Stuart.

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Dr Stuart Jeffrey
Deputy Director (Access)

Archaeology Data Service
Department of Archaeology
University of York The King's Manor York, YO1 7EP, UK

Tel: +44 (0)1904 324990, @ADS_Update
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk

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[dcc-associates] New international standards to aid data sharing

[Joy Davidson]

27;s work is supported by the UK's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences 
Research Council (BBSRC) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC); 
(BB/I000771/1, BB/I000917/1, BB/H024921/1, BB/I000860/1) 

About the Oxford e-Research Centre
The Oxford e-Research Centre, www.oerc.ox.ac.uk, works across the University of 
Oxford, and at national and international level, to accelerate research through 
development of innovative computational and information technologies in 
multidisciplinary collaborations. 

About the Harvard Stem Cell Institute
The Harvard Stem Cell Institute, www.hsci.harvard.edu, is a collaboration of 
more than 100 Harvard and Harvard-affiliated scientists dedicated to using the 
power of stem cell biology to advance basic understanding of human development 
in order to develop treatments and cures for a host of degenerative conditions 
and diseases. 

About BBSRC
BBSRC invests in world-class bioscience research and training on behalf of the 
UK public. Our aim is to further scientific knowledge, to promote economic 
growth, wealth and job creation and to improve quality of life in the UK and 
beyond.

Funded by Government, and with an annual budget of around £445M, we support 
research and training in universities and strategically funded institutes. 
BBSRC research and the people we fund are helping society to meet major 
challenges, including food security, green energy and healthier, longer lives. 
Our investments underpin important UK economic sectors, such as farming, food, 
industrial biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.

For more information about BBSRC, our science and our impact see: 
www.bbsrc.ac.uk.
For more information about BBSRC strategically funded institutes see: 
www.bbsrc.ac.uk/institutes.

External contact
B. D. Colen, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, USA
bd_co...@harvard.edu
tel: +1 617 495 7821/617-413-1224

Adi Himpson, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK
adi.himp...@oerc.ox.ac.uk
tel: 01865 610620

Contact
Mike Davies, Media Officer 
mike.dav...@bbsrc.ac.uk
tel: 01793 414694 
fax: 01793 413382 

Tracey Jewitt, Media Officer 
tracey.jew...@bbsrc.ac.uk
tel: 01793 413355
fax: 01793 413382 

*
Joy Davidson
Associate Director
Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
HATII, University of Glasgow
11 University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QJ
Tel: 0141 330 8592
Email: joy.david...@glasgow.ac.uk
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/hatii

[dcc-associates] FW: News release: How to make your JISC funding bid stand out from the crowd

[Joy Davidson]

***Of possible interest to members of the list.***

News release: How to make your JISC funding bid stand out from the crowd

News release
30 January 2012

How to make your JISC funding bid stand out from the crowd

Are you looking to secure JISC funding this year? As competition grows for 
funds, our advice on successful bidding can help you make a strong application.

Sarah Porter, director of innovation at JISC, said: “We want to attract bids 
from a wide range of universities and colleges, those that know JISC well and 
others that might be bidding for the first time or need additional help with 
their application. We know bidding for funds is a time-consuming process and we 
are therefore aiming to give organisations the best possible chance of being 
successful in their applications.”
 
JISC advice for successful bidding includes:
* Describe how your proposed project meets the criteria set out in the call
* Demonstrate how your idea  is aligned with the objectives of your college or 
institution, including what buy-in you have from senior management
* Carry out an initial assessment of the risks of undertaking the project – and 
then mention this in your bid
* Include an initial project plan and show how the project will be managed
* Think ahead – include information about dissemination, embedding and 
evaluation mechanisms
* Show that your project is sustainable once the funding has ceased – not just 
financially but also in terms of the skills sets of the people involved, and 
any data/software preservation
* Go green – show that you have considered the environmental impact of your 
project, eg. server power and data storage space you need
* Consider the wider benefits of the project  for UK education and research to 
show that your project is good value for money.  You might think about 
generating workshops, briefing papers or web pages to help disseminate the 
findings of your project more widely
* Check you understand JISC’S position on IPR and that your bid is in line with 
this
* Don’t let your bid fail on the easy stuff: make sure you stick to the page 
limit and get your bid in on time

Dominic Tate, repository development officer at the University of Nottingham 
who has compiled advice on successful JISC funding bids, said: “I would 
recommend an email or telephone call to the contact at JISC to sound them out 
about whether your idea for a bid is in scope for the call for funding. I would 
also recommend that you ask someone else outside your immediate team/colleagues 
to review a draft of your bid and give you feedback on the clarity of what you 
are proposing to do and deliver.”

Joss Winn, senior lecturer at the University of Lincoln who has managed a 
number of JISC projects, said: “When I write a bid, it is a somewhat open, 
collaborative process that proposes to formalise and build on work that we’re 
already doing and what we already know. I know that this is not uncommon and is 
not a guaranteed ‘secret to success’, but it is worth underlining.”

He adds: “Bid writing can be a useful  reflective exercise - rather than simply 
'bidding for money', it's part of the overall narrative of the project itself 
that starts with the bid and ends with the project outputs and papers.”

Useful resources:

Find out what you can bid for now and sign up for funding updates 



Read a briefing paper about applying successfully for funding


Read a blog post from Joss Winn on his experience of JISC projects


Find out more about what JISC is looking for in grant bids


Find out what we’re looking for from responses to tender invitations: 

  
Do you work in a college? Your JISC regional support centre can give you advice 
on writing an effective bid.  
Find your nearest representative 

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[dcc-associates] Summer Course “Policies and Practices in Access to Digital Archives: Towards a New Research and Policy Agenda” at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary, July 2-6, 201

[Joy Davidson]

***Apologies for cross-posting***
Summer Course “Policies and Practices in Access to Digital Archives: Towards a 
New Research and Policy Agenda” at Central European University (CEU) Course 
Dates: July 2-6, 2012
Location: Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary,
Detailed course description: http://summer.ceu.hu/archives-2012

CEU's summer school invites applications from doctoral students, postdocs, 
junior faculty and researchers from all over the world.

This course is intended to serve as a bridge between archivists, curators, 
researchers, legal experts and policymakers whose work deals with digital 
records, cultural heritage collections and/or open data. Launching an itinerary 
to reform the political and statutory landscape by uniting the efforts of key 
stakeholders is one of the broad purposes of the course.

Course faculty include Gabriella Ivacs, Open Society Archives,Central European 
University, Budapest, Hungary, Milena Dobreva, Computer and Information 
Sciences Department, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK; Carla Basili, 
CERIS, National Research Council (CNR), The European network for Information 
Literacy (EnIL), Joy Davidson, Digital Curation Centre, University of Glasgow, 
UK, Charles Farrugia, National Archives, Rabat, Malta, Vera Franz, Information 
Policy and Intellectual Property Reform initiatives, Society Information 
Program, New York, USA
Paul Keller, Knowledgeland, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Fabrice Quertain, 
Walloon Region, Belgium, (currently seconded to the European Commission), 
Istvan Rev, Open Society Archives, Central European University, Budapest, 
Hungary, Harry Verwayen, Europeana, EDL Foundation, Den Haag, the Netherlands.

The application deadline is February 15, 2012.

Financial aid is available.

More detailed information available at 
http://www.summer.ceu.hu/archives‑2012<http://www.summer.ceu.hu/archives%1e2012>.

Summer University Office
1051 Budapest, Nádor utca 9, Hungary
http://www.sun.ceu.hu<http://www.sun.ceu.hu/>
e-mail:summ...@ceu.hu
tel: 36 1 327 3811
fax: 36 1 327 3124

[dcc-associates] ECLAP 2012 Call for Proposals - Deadline Extension

[Joy Davidson]

***Apologies for cross-posting***

Dear Colleagues,

Please find below (and attached) the call for papers for the conference "ECLAP 
2012 International Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, 
Media Access and Entertainment" to be held at University of Florence in Italy 
on May 7-9, 2012.
The deadline for the submission of proposals has been extended to 1 February, 
2012.
Please circulate this information within your network.

Thank you and Best Wishes


Call for Proposals
ECLAP 2012 International Conference on Information Technologies for Performing 
Arts, Media Access and Entertainment
7-9 May 2012, Florence, Italy

Conference Web-Page: http://www.eclap.eu/conference Call for Proposals, 
Deadline: 1 February, 2012.
CFP Web: http://www.eclap.eu/drupal/?q=node/65309

The Information Technology age has facilitated many significant changes in the 
field of cultural heritage and continues to offer itself as a dynamic and 
exciting medium through which new possibilities perpetually emerge. This wave 
of change has had particularly significant consequences in the field of the 
Performing Arts, where a vast array of possibilities for digital content 
fruition continue to reveal themselves, constantly opening the doors to new and 
as-yet-unexplored synergies. Many technological developments concerning digital 
libraries, media entertainment and education are now fully developed and ready 
to be exported, applied, utilized and cultivated by the public.

The ECLAP 2012 conference is open to researchers, professionals, industries, 
institutions, technicians, practitioners in the area of performing arts and 
information technologies, media entertainment, technology enhanced learning, 
intelligent media systems, acoustic systems, cultural heritage, and many 
others. The ECLAP conference aims to function as a forum in which 
progress-oriented individuals and institutions within the aforementioned fields 
can find a place to collaborate and present results. We cordially invite all 
interested groups and individuals to submit proposals or papers. Each 
exhibition section of the event offers settings (booth and tables) to host 
demonstrators. Demo and poster sessions will be also organized.

The ECLAP 2012 conference has confirmed a keynote-speaker lineup consisting of 
some of the most salient voices in the field and is currently looking to put 
together a set of workshops, sessions and panels that will conform to our 
standard of excellence. The conference will be constituted of selected 
top-level papers/proposals, which will be published in the proceedings by the 
Florence University Press, complete with ISBN, and promoted in the most 
relevant indexing engines.

Topics of the General track on Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment 
include, but are not limited to:

*   Indexing and search, filtering, information retrieval
*   Cross media and multimedia mining
*   Media Annotations and tagging, solutions and interfaces
*   Mobile solutions and tools
*   Cloud based mobile solutions
*   Creative technologies
*   Sentiment analysis
*   Multimodal interactive systems
*   Recommendations and suggestions
*   Media grid processing and semantic computing
*   IPR management and business models
*   Data and media protection
*   Linked Open Data and Media, aggregated media
*   Intelligent information management
*   Personalization and profiling, user behavior analysis
*   Live Performance technologies and solutions
*   Emotion recognition and exploitation
*   Audio processing and tools for large events and installations
*   Video analysis, indexing and summarization
*   Social media technologies and solutions
*   Story telling models and tools
*   3D and 4D technologies and tools
*   Brain interfaces and interactions
*   Collective intelligence analysis and exploitation
*   Augmented reality solutions
*   Multilingual and natural language processing
*   Collaborative and cooperative systems
*   Metadata quality, mapping and ingestion models and tools
*   Speech processing and understanding
*   Content production models and tools

Proposals will be subjected to the review and selection of the ECLAP Program 
Committee members.

Proposals (for all the sessions and workshops) should be no longer than six 
pages and presented in the standard, two-column ECLAP format. A template can be 
found through the following link:  
http://www.eclap.eu/drupal/files/ECLAP-paper-template-A4-ver2.doc

Submissions should be original and not submitted and/or published in other 
journals or conferences. Please e-mail them in PDF format to i...@eclap.eu. 
Only the papers accepted by the Program Committee will be presented at the 
ECLAP 2012.

Papers will be published in the proceedings by the Florence University Press, 
complete with ISBN.

Deadlines:

*   Submission of papers to the general track: 1 

[dcc-associates] Persistent domain names: report on workshop, product page (ACTION-620, ACTION-528)

[Joy Davidson]

Forwarded on behalf of Henry Thompson.

Best regards,

Joy Davidson
Associate Director
Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
Email: joy.david...@glasgow.ac.uk
http://www.dcc.ac.uk



W3C [1] and the Digital Curation Centre [2] organised a workshop in conjuction 
with IDCC11 [3] on Domain names and persistence [4] in Bristol on 8 December 
2011.

The edited IRC log, together with links to all the talks, is now available at

  http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2011/12/dnap-workshop/notes.html   

A summary report is available at

  http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2011/12/dnap-workshop/report.html

The current draft TAG product page, awaiting discussion of next steps to be 
filled in, is at

  http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/products/persistence.html

ht

[1] http://www.w3.org
[2] http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
[3] http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc11/
[4] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/idcc_workshop.html
-- 
   Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
  10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440
Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk
   URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/  [mail from me 
_always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam]

[dcc-associates] Facet Publishing: new book on Managing Research Data

[Joy Davidson]

***Apologies for cross-posting***

Digital Curation Centre (DCC) press release: 23 January 2012

The DCC are delighted to announce the publication of 'Managing Research Data' 
edited by Graham Pryor, DCC Associate Director. 

Data management is an active process by which digital resources remain 
discoverable, accessible and intelligible over the longer term, a process that 
invests data and datasets with the potential to accrue value as assets enjoying 
far wider use than their creators may have anticipated. In the world of 
research, such a value-adding process is a significant contributor to the much 
desired achievement of impact.

Published by Facet, Managing Research Data aims to introduce the broader 
research community to such core issues of data management as the terms of 
compliance with funder expectations, the context and recommended approaches to 
individual and institutional data management planning, the roles and 
responsibilities of key players in the research data lifecycle, as well as 
detailed reports of initiatives, strategies and organizations being deployed 
nationally and on a global scale.

With an international authorship including experts from the UK's Digital 
Curation Centre, Managing Research Data is published by Facet Publishing, ISBN 
978-1-85604-756-2, price £49.95 (£39.96 to CILIP members). For more 
information, please see http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=7562. 

Best regards,
Joy

Joy Davidson
Associate Director
Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
HATII, University of Glasgow
11 University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QJ
Tel: 0141 330 8592
Email: joy.david...@glasgow.ac.uk
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/hatii

[dcc-associates] CERIF and euroCRIS meetings in Bath 9-10 Feb

[Joy Davidson]

This event may be of interest to list members.

!Save the date!

--
9&10 February 2012, University of Bath
---

euroCRIS, UKOLN and JISC are organising:

9 Feb, 11.00-17.00: CERIF tutorial and UK data surgery
Bring your CERIF queries and data modelling/mapping issues for discussion with 
euroCRIS CERIF experts; agenda available January

10 Feb, 09.00-17.00: euroCRIS Task Group meetings
Parallel meetings of 5 Task Groups in am and pm. Participation is open to all - 
you do not need to be a euroCRIS member. Task Group leaders are keen to involve 
UK input. Note also that CERIF expertise is not required (see agendas).

The euroCRIS Newsflash of 23 December includes information about both meetings:

http://www.eurocris.org/Uploads/Web%20pages/newsflash/Newsflash%2049.pdf

Watch the euroCRIS meetings pages for agenda and registration info for 9 Feb:

http://www.eurocris.org/Uploads/Web%20pages/members_meetings/201202%20-%20Bath,%20United%20Kingdom/

There is no charge for participation on either day. This forms part of JISC's 
Research Information Management (RIM) programme to increase the uptake of CERIF 
in the UK and to support the emerging community of practice. UKOLN at 
University of Bath provides support for JISC RIM work.

Regards, Rosemary



Rosemary Russell

Research Officer

UKOLN, University of Bath

Bath BA2 7AY, UK

r.russ...@ukoln.ac.uk

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/

 Original Message 
Subject:

Newsflash 49

Date:

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:49:01 +0100 (CET)

From:

euroCRIS 

To:

members2 , members3 
, members4 




Dear colleagues,



Here is the last Newsflash of this year, with - again - lots of information. 
May I especially call your attention for the Task Group meeting day in Bath, UK 
in February?



Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!



Harrie Lalieu

Secretary euroCRIS

[dcc-associates] News release: New guidance for using medical recordings in teaching

[Joy Davidson]

Of possible interest to list members.

News release 
5.12.2011

New guidance for using medical recordings in teaching

New advice and guidance on making and using clinical healthcare recordings 
funded by the Strategic Content Alliance for learning and teaching launches 
today.

Clinical images, videos and other recordings are vital to good teaching and 
learning within the health care professions.  Increasingly these are originated 
outside the institution that wishes to use them.  This raises a number of 
legal, ethical and other issues relating to their re-use. 

Debra Hiom, the project’s manager at the Institute for Learning and Research 
Technology (ILRT) at the University of Bristol, added: “Students and teachers 
increasingly use pre-existing patient images from the web without adequately 
considering copyright or how they have been consented.  The new materials will 
help individuals be clear how resources can or can not be reused.”

Listen to Debra explaining the issues that professionals face when using 
recordings and how the new guidance can help:


The materials aim to help users of clinical healthcare recordings to:
•   Understand how to deal with consent issues in using recordings of 
patients in learning and teaching resources; 
•   Understand the difference between copyright ownership and licensing and 
how to use resources shared under licence;
•   Demonstrate best practice in ‘digital professionalism’ and manage risks 
when creating sustainable teaching resources; 
•   Be better placed to share resources with colleagues. 

Stuart Dempster, Director of the Strategic Content Alliance at JISC, said: “I 
am delighted to see that the significant advances being made in medical 
recordings, networks and other technological innovation within the education, 
research and health are being matched with clarity in the advance and guidance 
being offered to clinical and non-clinical staff alike through this project.  
This work builds on from earlier JISC investments in improving the skills 
required in the digital age.”

The guidance is aimed primarily at students, teachers or doctors who wish to 
use a patient recording for learning and teaching.  It will also be of interest 
and use to other clinical and healthcare workers as well as to university staff 
where patient recordings are being made available for learning and teaching.   

Dr Jane Williams, Director of e-Learning in the Centre for Medical Education at 
the University of Bristol, said: “There is already a wealth of advice and 
guidance but it is currently overwhelming.  The new advice and guidance 
attempts to provide an easy navigable route through a very sensitive area of 
professional practice.”

The materials have been created by a collaboration of cross-sector 
organisations and individuals, including the General Medical Council (GMC), 
Wellcome Trust, Institute for Medical Illustrators, University of Bristol and  
Newcastle University.  

The project has been funded through JISC’s Strategic and Content Alliance and 
will be hosted by JISC Digital Media.

Read the advice and guidance 

[dcc-associates] News release: JISC and UK Research Councils to build a robust repository infrastructure for the future

[Joy Davidson]

This press release may be of interest to members of the list. 

-Original Message-
From: Nicola Yeeles [mailto:n.yee...@jisc.ac.uk] 
Sent: 24 November 2011 10:32
Subject: News release: JISC and UK Research Councils to build a robust 
repository infrastructure for the future

News release
22.11.2011

JISC and UK Research Councils to build a robust repository infrastructure for 
the future

Tracking the UK's research outputs will become easier in the future thanks to 
JISC and Research Councils UK (RCUK) working together to utilise their 
expertise.

Over the coming months a piece of work called the RIO Extension project will 
take place to scope the issues and requirements from universities, funders and 
researchers in managing the information about research outputs. The aim of the 
work is to provide the UK education and research sector with clear, practical 
guidance on recording and sharing information about its research outputs, so 
that it can be reused for a variety of purposes, including by the systems used 
by the Research Councils.   

Neil Jacobs, JISC's digital infrastructure programme director, says, "The UK 
research community punches well above its weight in terms of the quality and 
quantity of research outputs.  However, these are not systematically recorded, 
so it can be hard to demonstrate that impact.  Researchers, universities and 
funders have a common interest in ensuring that the outputs from UK research 
are visible, and that this is achieved without putting undue burden on the 
sector.  

"This can be done using both institutional repositories and more sophisticated 
research information systems but, in either case, it is important that these 
interoperate effectively with the systems operated by research funders and 
others.  The RIO Extension project will describe a roadmap for the sector to 
achieve that." 

Four of the Research Councils are shortly to launch the Research Outcomes 
System, which will be the primary means by which these Research Councils will 
collect this kind of information. JISC is supporting the creation of this 
service by ensuring that it works effectively and efficiently with 
institutional systems, including the UK repository infrastructure.  This 
flexible and community-owned infrastructure is well suited to meet the demands 
of the 21st century research community.

Dr Sue Smart, Chair of the RCUK Research Outcomes Project, comments, "With this 
clear and practical guidance agreed for the research community and Research 
Councils to use, we can work together to significantly lessen the burden on 
institutions and organisations wanting to collect this data."

The RIO Extension project is also part of a larger programme of work scoping 
and delivering shared repository and curation infrastructure services at a 
national and international level.  This work supports the strategic 
requirements of universities, colleges, JISC and the Research Councils to build 
a robust repository infrastructure for the future.  It also contributes to the 
aspirations of the UK Open Access Implementation Group's 2012 strategy.

Find out more about the wider programme at 


Find out more about the project at 


Explore JISC's repository infokit and how it could help your organisation at

[dcc-associates] FW: EPrints REF2014 plugin

[Joy Davidson]

This announcement may be of interest to list members. 

-Original Message-
From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On 
Behalf Of Alma Swan
Sent: 25 November 2011 09:22
To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: EPrints REF2014 plugin

*Apologies for cross-posting*
  
The  newly-developed REF2014 plugin for the widely-used EPrints repository
software is entering its live testing phase.  Five universities that
currently have their repositories hosted by EPrints Services will be
participating in the testing process.  The goal is to release the REF2014
plugin next February and it will be available free of charge.  

On behalf of EPrints Services, Sheridan Brown said "The development of this
new plugin demonstrates the team's continuing desire to add value to the
core EPrints software in response to the needs of the user community." 

The plugin provides the functionality that repositories need to comply with
requirements of the UK's Research Excellence Framework exercise. "It has
been developed for a UK-specific purpose, but it reflects the flexibility of
the EPrints software and the readiness of the development team to continue
to strive to make repositories a valuable strategic tool for institutions,"
says Sheridan.  

Further information about the REF2014 plugin can be found
here: http://www.eprints.org/ref2014/

[dcc-associates] Manchester and Elsevier team up on text-mining tool

[Joy Davidson]

This press release may be of interest to list members. 

University enters collaboration to develop text mining applications
07 Nov 2011
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=7627

The University of Manchester has joined forces with Elsevier, a leading 
provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and 
services, to develop new applications for text mining, a crucial research tool.

The primary goal of text mining is to extract new information such as named 
entities, relations hidden in text and to enable scientists to systematically 
and efficiently discover, collect, interpret and curate knowledge required for 
research.

The collaborative team will develop applications for SciVerse Applications, 
which provides opportunities for researchers to collaborate with developers in 
creating and promoting new applications that improve research workflows.

The University's National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM), the first 
publicly-funded text mining centre in the world, will work with Elsevier's 
Application Marketplace and Developer Network team on the project. 

Text mining extracts semantic metadata such as terms, relationships and events, 
which enable more pertinent search. NaCTeM provides a number of text mining 
services, tools and resources for leading corporations and government agencies 
that enhance search and discovery.

Sophia Ananiadou, Professor in the University's School of Computer Science and 
Director of the National Centre for Text Mining, said: "Text mining supports 
new knowledge discovery and hypothesis generation. 

"Elsevier's SciVerse platform will enable access to sophisticated text mining 
techniques and content that can deliver more pertinent, focused search results."

"NaCTeM has developed a number of innovative, semantic-based and time-saving 
text mining tools for various organizations," said Rafael Sidi, Vice President 
Product Management, Applications Marketplace and Developer Network, Elsevier. 

"We are excited to work with the NaCTeM team to bring this expertise to the 
research community."

Notes for editors
Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical 
information products and services. The company works in partnership with the 
global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, and 
close to 20,000 book titles. A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, 
Elsevier employs 7,000 people worldwide. 

NaCTeM is the first publicly funded, text mining centre in the world providing 
resources, tools and services to academia and industry. NaCTeM collaborates 
with both academia and industry, nationally and internationally. 

The University of Manchester

The University of Manchester, a member of the Russell Group, is the most 
popular university in the UK. It has 22 academic schools and hundreds of 
specialist research groups undertaking pioneering multi-disciplinary teaching 
and research of worldwide significance.

According to the results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, The 
University of Manchester is now one of the country's major research 
universities, rated third in the UK in terms of 'research power'. The 
University had an annual income of £788 million in 2009/10.

For media enquiries please contact:

Daniel Cochlin
Media Relations Officer
The University of Manchester
0161 275 8387
daniel.coch...@manchester.ac.uk

*
Joy Davidson
DCC Associate Director
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
George Service House, 11 University Gardens,
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QJ
Scotland
Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592
Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
http://www.dcc.ac.uk

[dcc-associates] FW: SCAPE Project: Request for examples of working and best practice documentation

[Joy Davidson]

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Planets Foundation
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SCAPE Project: Request for examples of working and best practice documentation

The OPF is a consortium member of the SCAPE (Scalable Preservation 
Environments) project, co-funded by the EU. 
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The project will enhance the state of the art of digital preservation in three 
ways: by developing infrastructure and tools for scalable preservation actions; 
by providing a framework for automated, quality-assured preservation workflows 
and by integrating these components with a policy-based preservation planning 
and watch system. These concrete project results will be validated within three 
large-scale Testbeds from diverse application areas: Digital Repositories from 
the library community, Web Content from the web archiving community, and 
Research Data Sets from the scientific community. Each Testbed has been 
selected because it highlights unique challenges.

One of the work-packages in which the OPF is participating is undertaking a 
task to carry out a survey of working and existing best practices documentation.

1. We are currently collecting examples of institutional guidelines, reports 
and documentation of working and best practice on Repository Migration.

If your institution has experience in, or if you aware of existing literature 
in this area, we would be very grateful if you would be willing to send us 
examples of documentation for our survey. The examples will be used to write a 
report on working and best practices to which we will add SCAPE experience. Any 
examples that we cite in the reports will be anonymised.

2. We are also collecting examples of institutional guidelines, reports and 
documentation of working and best practice on the Preservation of Scientific 
Datasets.

As above, if your institution has experience in, or if you aware of existing 
literature in either of these areas, we would be very grateful if you would be 
willing to send us examples of documentation for our surveyand report.

If your examples can be publicly available, please add them to the wiki pages: 
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with the topic of your examples in the subject.

Thank you,

Kind Regards,

Rebecca McGuinness
Membership and Communications Manager
Open Planets Foundation



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[dcc-associates] What's new - November 2011

[Joy Davidson]

DPC and DCC are delighted to announce that What's New 39 is now available at:
http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/whats-new/765-whats-new-issue-39-november-2011

In this issue:

* What's On - forthcoming events from November 2011 onwards

* What's New - new reports and initiatives since the last issue

* What's What - Too big to fail (William Kilbride)

* Who's Who - Sixty second interview with Janet Delve, University of 
Portsmouth

* One World - Mariella Guercio on Digital Preservation in Italy

* Your View? - comments and views from readers

What's new is a joint publication of the DPC and DCC

--
Dr William Kilbride FSA
Executive Director
Digital Preservation Coalition

44 (0)141 330 4522
http://www.dpconline.org/
will...@dpconline.org

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[dcc-associates] DaMSSI project delivers career profiles and RDM training recommendations

[Joy Davidson]

Apologies for cross-posting

*DaMSSI project delivers career profiles and RDM training recommendations*

The JISC/RIN-funded Data Management Skills Support Initiative (DaMSSI), in 
collaboration with DCC, has now completed its work.  DaMSSI produced a series 
of five career profiles that aim to demonstrate how data management skills 
contribute to and underpin high-quality performance in a number of professions. 
 

These profiles can be helpful for:

. illustrating potential career paths for both undergraduate and graduate   
  programmes; 
. promoting professional development training courses; 
. engaging with professional bodies.  

Professions covered by the series so far include:
. Conservators;
. Social Science Researchers;
. Archaeologists;
. Clinical Psychologists;
. Data Managers.

The profiles are available from both the RIN and DCC websites:

http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/researcher-development-and-skills/data-management-and-information-literacy


http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training/data-management-courses-and-training/career-profiles


DCC and RIN are keen to expand the series and welcome suggestions for 
additional professions we might explore.  If you would like to help us to 
highlight the role of data management and curation for your profession, 
please email i...@dcc.ac.uk. 

Both URLs provided above also contain more information about the DaMSSI 
project, including plan and final report. The final report contains a number of 
recommendations which will be of interest to those planning postgraduate 
research data management training. We hope these will prove useful to further 
work in this area.

Thanks 
Laura 
==

Laura Molloy  -- Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute 
(HATII) -- University of Glasgow -- Glasgow G12 8QQ -- Scotland -- Email: 
laura.mol...@glasgow.ac.uk -- Twitter: LM_HATII -- Phone: (+44) (0)141 330 7133 
- Skype: laura.molloy

JISC DaMSSI project: 
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training/data-management-courses-and-training/skills-frameworks
 and 
http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/researcher-development-and-skills/data-management-and-information-literacy

European Commission Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe (DigCurV) 
project: http://www.digcur-education.org/

[dcc-associates] FW: Mimas Senior Development Officer

[Joy Davidson]

This post may be of interest to members of the list.


From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On 
Behalf Of Frank Manista
Sent: 18 October 2011 11:40
To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: Mimas Senior Development Officer

Apologies for cross posting.

Mimas, the national data centre housed at the University of Manchester, has a 
position open for a Senior Development Officer (Jorum Technical Coordinator).   
The selected person will primarily work on the Jorum service and be skilled in 
project management, coordinating and motivating staff to deliver user-led 
service developments. You will be responsible for an ambitious programme of 
work to help turn Jorum into an enabling infrastructure that supports the 
ecology of reuse of OERs.

For the application particulars, please go to: 
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/vacancies/managementandprofessional/vacancy/?ref=134871

There is an option for secondment for this position.

The Jorum Team

[dcc-associates] 8th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (IPRES 2011)

[Joy Davidson]

***iPRES 2011 - Registration now open ***

8th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (IPRES 2011)
http://ipres2011.sg/
November 1-4, 2011
Singapore


The National Library Board, Singapore and the Nanyang Technological University 
are pleased to host the International Conference on Preservation of Digital 
Objects (iPRES 2011) in Singapore in November 2011. iPRES2011 will be the 
eighth in the series of annual international conferences that bring together 
researchers and practitioners from around the world to explore the latest 
trends, innovations, and practices in preserving our digital heritage.

Digital Preservation and Curation is evolving from a niche activity to
an established practice and research field that involves various
disciplines and communities. iPRES2011 will re-emphasise that preserving
our scientific and cultural digital heritage requires integration of
activities and research across institutional and disciplinary boundaries
to adequately address the challenges in digital preservation. iPRES2011
will further strengthen the link between digital preservation research
and practitioners in memory institutions and scientific data centres.

PROGRAMME:
http://ipres2011.sg/pages/programme-overview   
iPRES2011 will feature an intensive 1-week program, starting with a set
of tutorials on Tuesday, November 1st. This will be followed by 3 days of the 
main conference Wednesday-Friday including panel sessions, poster sessions and 
spotlight talks. Between Wednesday and Friday a number of focussed workshops 
will take place. All this will be accompanied by a social
programme offering ample room for discussion and deliberation.

REGISTRATION:
Registration is now available online at http://ipres2011.exxelnet.com/. For all 
enquiries, please write to roslinda_rah...@nlb.gov.sg with the title "iPRES 
2011 Registration". 

***Early bird registration closes October 15th 2011***
Please make sure to register as early as possible to make sure you benefit from 
the reduced early registration rates! 

TRAVEL INFORMATION AND ACCOMMODATION:
Travel information is provided at 
http://www.yoursingapore.com/content/traveller/en/plan-your-trip/travel-essentials/general-travel-information.html.
  

A list of accommodation options in the vicinity of the conference venue can be 
viewed at http://ipres2011.sg/pages/arrival-and-accomodation. Accommodation 
should be booked directly. 

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Singapore in November.

Sent on behalf of the General Co-Chairs

Schubert Foo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan

[dcc-associates] DCC/DPC What's new - issue 37 now available

[Joy Davidson]

Dear All,

I'm pleased to say that Issue 37 of the DPC / DCC what's new is now published 
at:
http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/whats-new/752-whats-new-issue-37-september-2011

This is an abridged issue and normal service will be resumed next month.  
You'll notice that we've omitted the regular 'Who's Who' section from this 
month's edition.  I have a few expressions of interest to follow up but would 
be interested to hear from members who might be interested in contributing to 
this section, or indeed to the 'Project du jour' or the One world sections.

All best wishes,

William

--
Dr William Kilbride FSA
Executive Director
Digital Preservation Coalition

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http://www.dpconline.org/
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[dcc-associates] Keeping Legal: what you can and can't do under copyright law

[Joy Davidson]

This workshop may be of interest to list members. 

Date:Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:10:09 +0100
From:Jennie Findlay 
Subject: Training event: Keeping Legal: what you can and can't do under 
copyright law with Professor Charles Oppenheim

Course: Keeping Legal: what you can and can't do under copyright law
Venue: The Engine Shed, 19 Saint Leonard's Lane, Edinburgh, Midlothian EH8 9SH 
(http://www.theengineshed.org/)
Trainer: Professor Charles Oppenheim
Date: Thursday 10th November 2011
Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm (lunch included)
Cost: SLLG member -  £75  
 SLLG non- member - £100 


Presented by Charles Oppenheim for the Scottish Law Librarians Group, this 
course will cover a wide range of copyright issues, in order to aid information 
professionals to work effectively within the legal limits of copyright law. 

Charles Oppenheim was until he retired in 2009, Professor of Information 
Science at Loughborough University and is currently a Visiting Professor at 
Queensland University. In his past life, he has held a variety of posts in 
academia and the electronic publishing industry, working for International 
Thomson, Pergamon and Reuters at various times.   

He has been involved in, given talks on, consulted on, and published widely on 
the legal issues involved in the creation, dissemination and consumption of 
information - especially Intellectual Property Rights, licences, Data 
Protection and Freedom of Information - since the mid 1980s.   

He is a copyright consultant to the JISC, to a number of private and public 
sector bodies and to the Strategic Content Alliance.  He is a member of the 
Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance, and of the Universities UK team that 
negotiates licences on behalf of the higher and further education communities 
with the Copyright Licensing Agency.  

The course will include a reminder of the principles and practice of copyright; 
investigate how to legally copy, covering  licences and exceptions to 
copyright; look at related rights such as database rights, moral rights, and 
performers rights; review recent developments, including the Digital Economy 
Act, the Hargreaves Review, and orphan works; discuss risk management; 
investigate scenarios for discussion and reporting back, and incorporate a 
quiz, and a Q & A session.

Attendees are invited to submit questions for the Q&A sessions in advance, or 
on the day.


A vegetarian lunch will be provided. Please specify at time of booking if you 
have any other dietary requirements.



Please contact Jennifer Findlay (jennifer.find...@semplefraser.co.uk) to 
reserve a place, or for any further information.

--

End of SCOTSLINK Digest - 16 Sep 2011 to 19 Sep 2011 (#2011-93)
***

[dcc-associates] Library of Congress To Launch New Corps of Digital Preservation Trainers

[Joy Davidson]

The following press release may be of interest to list members.

Library of Congress To Launch New Corps of Digital Preservation Trainers

The Digital Preservation Outreach and Education program at the Library of 
Congress will hold its first national train-the-trainer workshop on September 
20-23, 2011, in Washington, DC.

The DPOE Baseline Workshop will produce a corps of trainers who are equipped to 
teach others, in their home regions across the U.S., the basic principles and 
practices of preserving digital materials. Examples of such materials include 
websites; emails; digital photos, music, and videos; and official records.

The 24 students in the workshop (first in a projected series) are professionals 
from a variety of backgrounds who were selected from a nationwide applicant 
pool to  represent their home regions, and who have at least some familiarity 
with community-based training and with digital preservation. They will be 
instructed by the following subject matter experts:

 *   Nancy McGovern, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social
 Research, University of Michigan
 *   Robin Dale, LYRASIS
 *   Mary Molinaro, University of Kentucky Libraries
 *   Katherine Skinner, Educopia Institute and MetaArchive Cooperative
 *   Michael Thuman,  Tessella
 *   Helen Tibbo, School of Information and Library Science, University of  
 
 North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Society of American Archivists.

The curriculum has been developed by the DPOE staff and expert volunteer 
advisors and informed by DPOE-conducted research―including a nationwide 
needs-assessment survey and a review of curricula in existing training 
programs. An outcome of the September workshop will be for each participant to, 
in turn, hold at least one basic-level digital-preservation workshop in his or 
her home U.S. region by mid-2012.

The intent of the workshop is to share high-quality training in digital 
preservation, based upon a standardized set of core principles, across the 
nation.  In time, the goal is to make the training available and affordable to 
virtually any interested organization or individual.

The Library's September 2011 workshop is invitation-only, but informational and 
media inquiries are welcome to George Coulbourne, DPOE Program Director, at 
g...@loc.gov.

The Library created DPOE  in 2010.  Its mission is to foster national outreach 
and education to encourage individuals and organizations to actively preserve 
their digital content, building on a collaborative network of instructors, 
contributors and institutional partners. The DPOE website is 
www.loc.gov/dpoe.


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[dcc-associates] Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS), Glasgow

[Joy Davidson]

Posted on behalf of Leonidas Konstantelos, Principal Investigator, POCOS

*** Apologies for cross posting ***

Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS)
We are pleased to announce the 2nd POCOS Symposium on Preservation of Software 
Art:

.11-12 October 2011, The Lighthouse, Glasgow, UK
.Organised by the Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute 
(HATII) at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Online registration: http://www.pocos.org/index.php/registration 
Symposium Fee: Free + £10 donation for refreshments (payable at the event)

Preservation of software art presents challenges in many fronts, including 
complex interdependencies between objects; time-based and interactive 
properties; and diversity in the technologies and practices used for 
development.

This exciting two-day symposium will provide a forum for participants to 
discuss these challenges, review and debate the latest developments in the 
field, witness real-life case studies, and engage in networking activities. 

The symposium will  promote discussion on such topics as:
. Implications and advances in preserving software art
. Issues of ephemerality
. Significant properties for software art
. Software art as performance
. Legal and Ethical issues in collecting, curating and preserving software 
  art
. Interpretation and Documentation

Keynote Speakers:
. Richard Rinehart - Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, USA
. Simon Biggs - Edinburgh College of Art, UK

Presenters include:
. Vicky Isley and Paul Smith - boredomresearch / NCCA, Bournemouth 
  University, UK
. Michael Takeo Magruder - King's Visualisation Lab, King's College London, 
  UK
. Perla Innocenti - History of Art, University of Glasgow, UK
. Leo Konstantelos - HATII, University of Glasgow, UK

The programme also includes break-out sessions for participants to discuss key 
topics in preservation of Software Art.

For more information, please visit the POCOS page at: 
http://www.pocos.org/index.php/pocos-symposia/software-art 

Download the brochure at: 
http://pocos.org/images/pub_material/leaflet_software_art.pdf 

Bookings are now open at the project website - however, space is limited so 
please book early. A waiting list will be maintained once the symposium is 
fully booked in case of late cancellations.

We look forward to welcoming you at the event!

Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS) has been funded by the JISC 
Information Environment Programme 2009-11

[dcc-associates] FW: The Royal Society needs your input on OA

[Joy Davidson]

Of possible interest to list members. 
-Original Message-
From: Kazmi, Sana [mailto:sana.ka...@royalsociety.org] 
Sent: 07 September 2011 15:20
Subject: The Royal Society needs your input on OA

** Apologies for cross posting **

Dear Librarians and Open Access Administrators,

The Royal Society needs your help! We need your opinions on our open access 
programme,
and you can have the chance to win £100 ($150) of Amazon vouchers.

http://svy.mk/OAsurvey

---

As a result of the growing demand by both authors and institutions, The Royal 
Society is pleased to announce
the launch of Open Biology, our first fully open access journal.

Being the first wholly open access online journal from the Royal Society, we 
would like to ask for your contribution
in helping us determine how we can best serve your faculty and scientists who 
wish to publish in open access.

Please complete this short survey to help us better understand your 
institution's requirements
and views towards open access publishing and funding.

http://svy.mk/OAsurvey

Your feedback is greatly valued and will be reviewed by the Royal Society's 
publishing team,
ensuring that we work together with those institutions that support open access 
in order to achieve
our goal towards the dissemination of scientific knowledge.

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Open Biology is a rapid, open-access, peer-reviewed online journal publishing 
high quality research in
cell biology, developmental and structural biology, molecular biology, 
biochemistry,
neuroscience, immunology, microbiology and genetics.

The Editor-in-Chief, Professor David Glover (FRS) from the University of 
Cambridge, aims to provide a journal
with a fair and speedy review system, "run by active, practicing scientists... 
with high expertise in this area",
"allowing good papers to be published quickly". He goes on to say that there is 
a need for scientists to be actively involved
in communicating and publishing their ideas, and believes Open Biology can help 
answer these needs by covering these specialist areas.

We thank you for your feedback, and if you may know of any other open access 
advocates
who wish to present their views to the Royal Society, please forward them this 
email.

You can complete the survey here http://svy.mk/OAsurvey.


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[dcc-associates] Pocast: Quality data underpins research excellence

[Joy Davidson]

These podcasts on research data management taken from the current issue of JISC 
Headlines may be of interest to list members. 

Quality data underpins research excellence
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2011/08/podcast123kevinschurer.aspx
Ahead of JISC's research integrity conference, about the importance of good 
data management being held on 13 September, JISC's Rebecca O'Brien talks with 
Professor Kevin Schürer, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) at the 
University of Leicester, about how the university has developed a strategy for 
managing their data, and they also talk about what people attending and 
watching the conference online will see from his keynote.

The social life of data
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2011/08/podcast122davidderoure.aspx 
The importance of good data management has increased in profile over the past 
18 months due to the Government's open data campaign, academic research being 
misinterpreted and the future research excellence framework. JISC's Rebecca 
O'Brien chats to Professor David De Roure, Professor of e-Researchat the 
University of Oxford e-Research Centre and the UK's National e-Social Science 
Strategic Director with the Economic and Social Research Council, on his views 
on data management and he shares a taster of the keynote he will be delivering 
at JISC's Research Integrity Conference on 13 September 2011. 

JISC's Research Integrity Conference 
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2011/09/researchintegrity.aspx

Best regards,
Joy

Joy Davidson
DCC Associate Director
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
George Service House, 11 University Gardens,
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QJ
Scotland
Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592
Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
http://www.dcc.ac.uk

[dcc-associates] Architectures and data storage of LTP systems

[Joy Davidson]

This survey and subsequent results may be of interest to list members. 

-Original Message-
From: l...@ics.muni.cz [mailto:l...@ics.muni.cz] 
Sent: 24 August 2011 15:12
Subject: Architectures and data storage of LTP systems

Dear Sir or Madam,

As a part of our work on the development of a national data storage
infrastructure in the Czech Republic, we are working on an extensive
worldwide comparison of commonly used architectures of data storage and
corresponding technical background of the Long Term Preservation (LTP)
systems. This study is held under the auspices of CESNET, Center Cerit-SC,
Institute of Computer Science at Masaryk University, and the Moravian
Library in Brno.

We would appreciate if you will kindly forward this e-mail to the staff in
your institution responsible for the technical foundations/basis of your
long term data preservation systems.


Please, could you be so kind as to answer as many as possible of the
following questions? The results of this "dialog survey" will be a part of
a report that will be publicly available around end of this year. We will
be pleased to send you an electronic or printed copy when the report is
finished.


The information we would like to gather includes but is not limited to:

1. What kind of systems do you use to ensure long-term data preservation?

2. Does your institution use any LTP system (Rosetta, Tessella,
Archivematica)? If not, are you planning to deploy some form of LTP system
in the future?

3. If yes, what technical solutions stays behind it (home developed, iRODS,
etc.)?

4. Do you use your LTP system directly for serving the user copies to the
public or is there any system for accessing the user copies in the middle
and your LTP stores only master copies? If the later option corresponds to
your situation, how often do you synchronize the content of your LTP with
the system for exposing the digital objects to the public? Is the
performance (throughput/access time) of the LTP system a key quality in
your infrastructure?

5. Do you have your LTP system certified as a trusted repository
(TRAC, NESTOR) or do you plan a certification?

6. What kinds of HW technologies do you use for storing the master copies
(disks, tapes, hybrid solutions, etc.)?

7. Would you prefer one geographic location where the actual data is stored
or some kind of more geographically distributed approach keeping in mind
risks of physically destroying the site, e.g., by a natural disaster?

8. What are the main pros and cons of your LTP infrastructure (rather HW
infrastructure questions than functional requirements of the LTP system)?

9. Is your LTP system OAIS (ISO 14721:2003) compliant? How much is this
important for your institution? How would you categorize this feature
("nice to have", "should have", "must have")?

10. Do you have a document that maps your system to OAIS? Do you have any
services/processes beyond OAIS? Do you miss some important
functions/processes of OAIS and why?

11. Had you done a similar study before you decided to use the LTP system?
If so, would it be possible to get its results?

12. Do you have any documents describing your solution at the technical
and/or architectural level?

13. What is the approximate number of objects already stored? And what are
the expected final (maximum) numbers?

14. And how are the objects (data and metadata) structured? In other words,
how is a periodical/monograph/map represented in the LTP? How does your API
for various data types look like? What type of identifiers is used?

15. What extent of in-house customization was needed? Was the system
delivered as an "out of box" vendor solution, did a contract include local
customization or were you the major architects and developers?

16. Have you tried any form of distributed data storage? Provided you have
tried some distributed data storage, how consistently is the application
layer of the LTP system separated from the lower distributed data layer?

17. Is it legally permitted to keep your data saved outside the
country/institution? If not, would you like to use some form of on-premise
or spread-over-a-few-institution distributed repository for a long-term
storage instead of cloud storage services like Amazon S3 or Google Storage?

18. Is there any centralized instance (registry of digitization) for
monitoring a digitization and subsequent or preventive deduplication of the
digitized data in your country?

19. Does your institution participate on exchanging the metadata with other
institutions through OAI-PMH or other protocols?



The results of our survey will be summarised in a publicly available
report.
Many thanks for your valuable time and please feel free to answer this email
with any further questions you have.


Yours faithfully,

Jiri Kremser
l...@ics.muni.cz

[dcc-associates] JISC Research Information Management (RIM) Projects Final Event

[Joy Davidson]

This event may be of interest to list members.

*
FREE JISC Research Information Management (RIM) Projects Final Event 
Manchester Conference Centre 
Tuesday 20th September, 2011.
 
This FREE one day event organised by JISC and UKOLN aims to showcase the 
work of the following JISC funded Research Information Management Strand 
2 final projects:
 
- Brunel Research Under a CERIF Environment (BRUCE) - Brunel University
- CERIFy - UKOLN, University of Bath
- Measuring Impact under CERIF (MICE) - Centre for e-Reseach (CeRch), 
  Kings College London
- Integrated Research Input and Output System (IRIOS) - University of 
  Sunderland
 
The day will start with an overview of the strand and what it's aims and 
objectives were. This will be followed by a sneak preview of each of the 
projects findings, where each of the projects will pitch to the audience 
to come to their sessions. After the break 4 parallel sessions will be 
held for each of the projects, these sessions will be repeated again in 
the afternoon. Delegates will have an opportunity to visit at least 2 
project sessions. After the afternoon project sessions, there will be a 
number of presentations from projects that are building on the Research 
Information Management strand (e.g. from RMAS, Research Council etc). 
The day will end with a plenary discussion focusing on the way forward.

For more information, a draft programme and a booking form please visit:

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-rim-2-20092011/ 

-
Mr Mahendra Mahey
Project Manager DevCSI and CERIFy Projects
Research Officer
UKOLN,
University of Bath,
Bath,
BA2 7AY

Tel: ++44 (0) 1225 384594
Fax: ++44 (0) 1225 386256
Mobile: ++44 (0) 07581069575
email: m.ma...@ukoln.ac.uk
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http://cerify.ukoln.ac.uk/
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk
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[dcc-associates] FW: Special announcement from the NGS - continuation funding for the NGS

[Joy Davidson]

Of possible interest to list members. 

-Original Message-
From: NGS news list [mailto:ngs-n...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Gillian 
Sinclair
Sent: 17 August 2011 11:40
To: ngs-n...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: Special announcement from the NGS - continuation funding for the NGS

We are delighted to announce that JISC will continue to fund the NGS until the 
31st of July 2012. This will allow the NGS to carry on supporting its broad 
user base across the UK and to strengthen their links into Europe and beyond. 
We will not only be able to support users but to also develop further the 
essential relationship that we have with our member institutions. This will 
include further roadshows and outreach activities at universities and research 
institutions that have a significant current or prospective user base, 
including current user experiences and training events for getting started..

During the coming period we will continue to actively work with large 
international projects with bases in the UK, for example ELIXIR 
(http://www.elixir-europe.org), Lifewatch (http://www.lifewatch.eu/), SKA 
(http://www.skatelescope.org/) and CLARIN (http://www.clarin.eu). We recently 
held two workshops to gather their ongoing e-infrastructure requirements, to 
ensure that the UK can support their ongoing needs and remain a leader in 
Europe. 

Beginning in April 2011, the NGS moved to a new model of service. A new policy 
was introduced offering all NGS users a moderate allocation of compute 
resources for free, a lifeline for pump priming novel projects and for early 
career researchers who might otherwise struggle to receive resources directly 
from grants. The NGS has been working with larger projects and individuals with 
more significant requirements and can now offer competitively priced compute 
and data services through its partner sites.

This phase of the NGS also includes the availability of central services so 
that remote sites are able to easily monitor, account and control the user base 
for their services when these users come not only from their own institution 
but from collaborating institutions. These services are particularly targeted 
towards the larger national and international projects of which the UK is a 
significant partner.

David Wallom, Technical Director said "This extension is a further 
demonstration of the importance of a core research computing service available 
at a national level, supporting projects from the large international 
infrastructures through to the small single researcher activity. The NGS 
supports the federation of resources between institutions and the central 
services which are essential to avoid duplication of effort in larger projects."

If you are interested in purchasing resources or services from the NGS, please 
contact the NGS helpdesk (supp...@grid-support.ac.uk).

[dcc-associates] FW: Vacancy: Head of Digital Library, University of Edinburgh

[Joy Davidson]

The following may be of interest to list members. 

-Original Message-
From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On 
Behalf Of CANNELL Sheila
Sent: 16 August 2011 10:19
To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: Vacancy: Head of Digital Library, University of Edinburgh

Dear All

Apologies for cross posting. Please forward this to any colleagues who may be 
interested in this vacancy for the Head of the Digital Library at the 
University of Edinburgh in the post vacated by Simon Bains. 

We need an experienced and dynamic leader to take the University's Digital 
Library to the next level of delivery, working in an environment which includes 
access to some of the world's top research in digital libraries and working 
closely with other teams in Information Services, including the Digital 
Curation Centre and Edina. 

Your experience will enable you to lead your team in an innovative and 
customer-focussed manner. You will have substantial experience of strategic 
developments in digital libraries and repository management.   You will be 
excited by the opportunities we face in managing research data.   

For further information, please contact Sheila Cannell (sheila.cann...@ed.ac.uk)

Further details are available at
http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.detail&vacancy_ref=3014396

Sheila Cannell
Director of Library Services
University of Edinburgh

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Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

RE: [dcc-associates] News release: JISC support for MPs' peer-review report

[Joy Davidson]

Hi Simon,

I think you raise a good point. It is very difficult to sustain activities on 
an international scale. The DCC currently cooperates in numerous international 
initiatives. Several are jointly funded - for instance we are partners in a 
JISC and IMLS funded project at the moment. However, these are generally 
short-term projects and it would be good to have some sort of sustained fund 
that supported international cooperation over the longer term. The new EC 
project sounds interesting. The DCC has been working to improve understanding 
and communication between researchers and other stakeholders in the research 
data lifecycle for the past seven years so this would be something we'd be keen 
to hear more about.

Perhaps more immediate to many of the researchers and research support staff we 
work with in the UK is the challenge of sustaining support and services at the 
institutional level. The JISC Managing Research Data (MRD) programme has made 
some excellent progress in embedding the results of short-term projects into 
institutional infrastructures and budgets. The next group of MRD projects due 
to start in October should progress things even further. 

I guess part of the problem is deciding where the financial support will have 
the greatest impact - locally, nationally or globally. There is probably a need 
for support at all levels. However, if more institutions were able to sustain 
their research data management, sharing and preservation infrastructures and 
support locally it might lead to a bottom up improvement on a global scale. 

Best regards,
Joy


-Original Message-
From: Simon Fenton-Jones [mailto:simo...@cols.com.au] 
Sent: 04 August 2011 01:00
To: Joy Davidson; research-data...@jiscmail.ac.uk; 
dcc-associates@lists.ed.ac.uk; 'DCC Phase 3'
Subject: RE: [dcc-associates] News release: JISC support for MPs' peer-review 
report

Hi Joy,

I had the same kind of discussion with some Aussie MP's re this one a few
years ago. It boiled down to some people pointing out to MP's that it's a
bit "do we say, not do as we do". The most important researchers (it can be
argued) in any country are the ones who support Parliamentary inquiries.
After all , they decide where the public's money is spent.

A Parliament's researchers are not seen to collaborate in an inquiry. Each
does pretty similar things, separately. Each comes up with fairy similar
conclusions, separately. Each then goes off the fund pretty similar (ICT)
research inquiries, separately. Then it's left to the inquirers to
compensate for the obvious lacking in a parliament's perspective. We live in
a globalized world.

This National mindedness is enlarged to a European level, where an EC
parliament offer dobs of money, to existing professionally-minded consortia,
on a ritualized basis; the division of which is judged by "expert groups".
Many associations attempt to gather a consortia from their own profession.
The DDC do so in their member's attempts to improve the "management of Data"
as much as others, like terena, will do in their member's attempts to "share
data" in a "cloud". One will work on "open archives", the other will work on
"open storage" as if one was in no way related to the other.

I'm bring this up now as you may have noticed the EC attempting to improve
their "partner's search". http://tiny.cc/pwzk4 
The FP7 site is becoming participant centric.
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/whatisnew 
With a communication hub to come (they hope).
http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?lg=en&pg=forum 
At the core, they're starting to get their heads around the fact that if
"their" NCP's don't collaborate globally, then it's unlikely their fundees
will. 

So is there any chance you might like to focus on this call as well.
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/programme/fet_en.html
It's a bit more open. Now the real problem. Data/content managers and
Network operators don't talk the same language. One focuses on (Information)
Awareness; the other, (Communication) Collaboration. Never the twain doth
meet.

But there is talk at a EC project called Paradiso about "Platforms for
Awareness and Collaboration", so maybe there's a chance we can get the two
(well defended) professional kingdoms together.
Excuse the length. But you'd have to admit, it beats reading any National
MP's report. Just so irrelevant these days.

Question. How do you fund Global Groups (for the long term) instead of a
National Institutions?
Regards, simon


-Original Message-
From: owner-dcc-associa...@lists.ed.ac.uk
[mailto:owner-dcc-associa...@lists.ed.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Joy Davidson
Sent: Tuesday, 2 August 2011 3:45 PM
To: 'research-data...@jiscmail.ac.uk'; dcc-associates@lists.ed.ac.uk; 

RE: [dcc-associates] News release: JISC support for MPs' peer-review report

[Joy Davidson]

Hi Adil,

I agree with you that all researchers in graduate programmes should emerge with 
the ability to critically assess the work of their peers. However, reviewers 
are increasingly being expected to assess the quality of the underlying 
research data as well as the published output. One specific area where 
additional researcher training is becoming necessary is data management 
planning. 

Funding body requirements are emerging to ensure that research data is 
adequately managed over the life of the research project and beyond. Indeed 
many funding bodies now require the inclusion of a data management plan at the 
bid stage. For a list of the potential benefits associated with managing 
research data please see the useful information provided by MIT Libraries
http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/data-management/why.html. 

The review of data management plans requires additional skills on the part of 
reviewers. If reviewers are unable to effectively assess aspects of data 
management as part of the overall bid review there will be little reward for 
researchers to complete these data management plans as anything other than a 
box ticking exercise. 

Some postgraduate courses are starting to cover data management aspects more 
explicitly which should mean that early career researchers are picking up these 
skills. The recent JISC MRD Train funded projects 
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/mrd/rdmtrain.aspx have developed data 
management training modules for specific research disciplines. 

However, we still need to ensure that researchers at all stages in their 
careers have the opportunity to gain these skills as well. Support services 
like UKDA and DCC offer data management training (much of it free) but it is 
not formally accredited. There is potentially a strong leading role for 
professional bodies here to work with support services to accredit and refine 
existing courses. 

Best regards,
Joy

Joy Davidson
DCC Associate Director
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
George Service House, 11 University Gardens,
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QJ
Scotland
Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592
Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
http://www.dcc.ac.uk

-Original Message-
From: Adil Hasan [mailto:adilhas...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 03 August 2011 03:05
To: Joy Davidson
Cc: 'research-data...@jiscmail.ac.uk'; dcc-associates@lists.ed.ac.uk; 'DCC 
Phase 3'
Subject: Re: [dcc-associates] News release: JISC support for MPs' peer-review 
report

Hello,
> MPs recently recommended improvements to the way scientific papers are 
> checked before they are published, calling for the peer review process to be 
> more transparent.
>
> Read the BBC article about the 
> report<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14314501>
>
> The recommendations came out of a House of Commons Science and Technology 
> Committee report which also urged that researchers make their scientific data 
> publicly available, and that reviewers have formal training.
>
I find the statement about formal training for reviewers to be quite 
disappointing. Surely, the formal training researchers in all fields 
obtain in becoming researchers contains an objective and critical 
assessment of work by ones peers in that area. This is the method that 
should be used to review papers/conference proceedings. And, I think in 
a majority of cases it is. So, I cannot see the formal training as being 
of any use (well it will divert funding from research to training which 
will reduce the amount of research that can be done). It will also 
reduce the amount of time researchers can spend on research.

Perhaps I am misguided.

Sorry for the noise,
adil

[dcc-associates] News release: JISC support for MPs' peer-review report

[Joy Davidson]

News release
1 August 2011

JISC support for MPs' peer-review report 
 
MPs recently recommended improvements to the way scientific papers are checked 
before they are published, calling for the peer review process to be more 
transparent.

Read the BBC article about the report 


The recommendations came out of a House of Commons Science and Technology 
Committee report which also urged that researchers make their scientific data 
publicly available, and that reviewers have formal training.

Executive secretary at JISC, Dr Malcolm Read, said: "At JISC we strongly 
support the recommendations of the House of Commons Committee report.  Though 
most researchers agree with the principles of peer review, many feel there is 
room to improve how it is implemented.  Recently there have been suggestions 
about alternatives, like open peer review and JISC has funded universities to 
look into open access academic journals which are compiled from other openly 
available material."

JISC is already acting on a number of the recommendations - including funding 
the Dryad project mentioned in the report.  Dryad-UK provides a repository for 
the data underpinning research articles, encouraging greater research openness. 
The BMJ Open journal and titles from BioMedCentral and PLoS have become 
partners, integrating their submission process with Dryad and strongly 
encouraging authors to deposit research data. 

Neil Jacobs, programme director at JISC, said, "We are also engaged in 
productive collaboration with innovative publishers such as PLoS, as well as 
industry bodies, for example on standardising the way usage statistics for 
articles are reported."

The government report describes access to data as 'fundamental' for researchers 
to reproduce, verify and build on each others' results.  

This spirit of openness is something JISC supports, through its work with the 
UK Research Councils.  

However, there are challenges, as JISC's programme manager for data management 
Simon Hodson explains, "These objectives will be difficult to realise unless 
research practice and supporting systems and infrastructures are developed to 
make good practice easier.  Similarly, researchers will feel little motivation 
to make data available in a timely way unless conventions of recognition and 
reward evolve to encompass the effort required to ensure data quality and 
reusability.  The JISC managing research data programme is helping universities 
support researchers in responding to these challenges."

ends

JISC's position on why becoming more open can benefit colleges and universities 


How can I better manage my research data?


Advice on data management planning from the Digital Curation Centre


Follow the 'importance of good data management' event online in advance and on 
the day (13 Sept 2011)

[dcc-associates] Last call for contributions - IPRES 2011: second call open until August 12

[Joy Davidson]

iPRES 2011 - 8th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects
November 1-4, Singapore - http://ipres2011.sg/

iPRES still has these OPEN CALLS for best practice reports, case studies, and
newly started initiatives that tackle emerging problems in the area:

== Short-Papers (4 pages) presenting case studies, best practice reports, new
relevant challenges and work in progress.
== Posters and Demonstrations (2 pages) stressing emerging issues or
demonstrating innovative systems.
== Tutorials, covering single topics, at an introductory level or an in-depth
level.

- System for submissions of short-papers, posters or demos:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ipres2011 (proposals MUST USE this
template http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates)
- Proposals for tutorials must be sent to ipressingap...@gmail.com

All contributions will be peer-reviewed!
Accepted short-papers, posters and demos will be published in the iPRES2011
proceedings.
Previous iPRES Conferences:
http://rdd.sub.uni-goettingen.de/conferences/ipres/ipres-en.html

= IMPORTANT DATES =
* 12 August 2011 - Short papers, posters and demonstrations proposals due
* 12 August 2011 - Tutorial and panel proposals due
* 28 August 2011 - Acceptance notification for full papers
* 04 September 2011 - Acceptance notification for all other proposals
* 21 September 2011 - Camera-ready papers due
* 30 September 2011 - Early Registration closes
==  Past dates ==
* 17 July 2011 - Full papers due
* 17 July 2011 - Workshop proposals due

[dcc-associates] Free event - Research Council Funded Research

[Joy Davidson]

Posted on behalf of Valerie McCutcheon. 
---

FREE EVENT - RESEARCH COUNCIL FUNDED RESEARCH

Dear All,

We are hosting a workshop in London on Friday 22nd July.  The workshop will 
include a demonstration of our tool to extract and display data from Research 
Council systems and an opportunity to discuss current HEI issues such as:

Future directions of Electronic Research Administration

Universal Researcher IDs

Integrating research projects and outcomes

REF considerations

http://www.irios.sunderland.ac.uk/index.cfm/2011/6/15/Workshop-Invite-22nd-July

There is no charge for the event and lunch will be provided.

If you would like to send one or more representative from your research office, 
planning office, library or other interested area please do either register 
directly with 
kathleen.callen...@sunderland.ac.uk 
or let me know and I will register you.

Regards

Valerie McCutcheon

valerie.mccutch...@glasgow.ac.uk

Steve Bailey

Senior Adviser, JISC infoNet

Office: +44(0)7092 302850

Skype: steve.bailey42

Linkedin profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sjbailey

Twitter ID: @sjbailey

JISC infoNet is a JISC Advance service hosted by Northumbria University

[dcc-associates] BlogForever Survey

[Joy Davidson]

Posted on behalf of Yunhyong Kim, HATII, University of Glasgow. 

** Apologies for cross posting **

##
  Invitation to participate in the BlogForever Survey
##
We  would like to invite you to participate in the BlogForever survey.

The purpose of this survey is to gather information about the content, use and 
context of weblogs that are currently in use in society. The results of the 
survey will be used to help with the long-term preservation, management, 
analysis, access and use of weblogs, and thus better serve the community.

You have been selected for the survey because you are in the immediate network 
or extended network of one of the Project Partners. 

Your answers to the survey will be kept completely confidential and only used 
for research purposes. Your name will never be requested as any part of the 
survey.

The Survey is online at:

http://iprobe.gr/Surveys/BlogForever/

You will be invited at the start of the survey to participate as a blog author 
or a blog reader.

BlogForever is a collaborative EU funded project. Its key objective is to 
develop robust digital preservation, management and dissemination facilities 
for weblogs. These facilities will be able to capture the dynamic and 
continuously evolving nature of weblogs, their network and social structure, 
and the exchange of concepts and ideas that they foster; pieces of information 
omitted by current web archiving methods and solutions. You can learn more 
about BlogForever at http://blogforever.eu/.

If you have any queries about the survey or the project, please email 
blogforever_sur...@blogforever.eu

###
BlogForever (ICT No. 269963) is funded by the European Commission under 
Framework Programme 7 (FP7) ICT Programme
###

[dcc-associates] FW: [event] TransferSummit 2011: Open Innovation Everywhere

[Joy Davidson]

This event may be of interest to list members. 

-Original Message-
From: Steve Lee [mailto:steve@oucs.ox.ac.uk] 
Sent: 06 July 2011 10:10
Subject: [event] TransferSummit 2011: Open Innovation Everywhere

TransferSummit provides a forum for members of the academic and
research community and business executives to discuss requirements,
challenges, and opportunities in the use, development, licensing, and
future of Open Source technology. TransferSummit returns for a second
year to the intimate and atmospheric Keble College, Oxford.

By attending Transfer Summit, attendees will be able to develop a
deeper understanding of the latest thinking and practice in applying
open innovation in software to both projects and commercial activity,
especially in the rapidly-evolving mobile landscape.

Dates: Trainings 5,6th September 2011, Conference 7,8 September 2011
Venue: Keble College, Oxford, UK
Registration: visit http://transfersummit.com

Note: Early Bird rates end on the 8th of July.

Academic/research-oriented participants will include principal
investigators, senior researchers, technology transfer officers,
strategic planners, technology licensing administrators, industry
liaison officers, and funding programme directors. TransferSummit
provide the opportunity to connect with organisations seeking to learn
more about emerging innovations and applying them to commercial
applications.

Three tracks covering Open Innovation, Open Development and Case
Studies provide a range of choice and in-depth topic coverage. This
year we've added a virtual track allowing easy selection of
mobile-related slots. A new integral Government summit, provides a
forum for policy makers. For those who like to get hands-on there are
a number of practical sessions and breakouts, plus there are several
innovative gadgets to play with during breaks. Because this is
TransferSummit, numbers are limited to make the most of this intimate
setting and provide excellent networking opportunities.

In summary, TransferSummit 2011 features:

* 2 days' trainings
* 2-day conference across three tracks
* Mobile focus, virtual track
* Government summit
* Hands-on learning and break-out sessions
* Gadget playtime
* Gala dinner
* On-site housing
* Intimate setting, limited to 300 participants
* Open Innovation everywhere!

For more information and to register please visit the TransferSummit website:

http://transferSummit.com

Steve Lee
OSS Watch

[dcc-associates] iPRES 2011 - 8th International Conference on Digital Preservation of Digital Objects November 1-4, Singapore: deadline extension

[Joy Davidson]

***Apologies for cross-postings***

iPRES 2011 - 8th International Conference on Digital Preservation of Digital 
Objects November 1-4, Singapore 
http://ipres2011.sg/

Due to numerous requests we have decided to extend the deadline of
iPRES2011 by 7 days until July 8 (midnight IDLW, GMT -12hrs)


CALL FOR PAPERS

iPRES, the main international conference on digital preservation, is calling 
for proposals for original full and short papers, panels, workshops, posters 
and demonstrations.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Domain-specific Challenges (Cultural Heritage, Technical and Scientific 
Processes and Data, Engineering Models and Simulation, Medical Records, 
Corporate Processes and Recordkeeping, Web Archiving, Personal Archiving, 
e-Procurement, etc.)
* Systems Life-cycle (Requirements, Modeling, Design, Development, Deployment 
and Maintenance)
* Trusted Repositories and Governance (Risk Analysis, Planning, Audit and 
Certification, Business Models, Cost Estimation, etc.)
* Case Studies and Best Practices (Processes, Metadata, Systems, Services, 
Infrastructures, etc.)
* Innovation in Digital Preservation (Novel Challenges and Scenarios, 
Innovative Approaches)
* Added-value of Digital Preservation (Emerging Exploitation Scenarios and the 
Long-Tail of Digital Repositories and Archives)
* Training and Education
* Theory of Digital Preservation

Call for Papers - iPRES 2011 invites submissions for full and short papers 
reporting on novel previously unpublished work. Full papers are expected to 
report innovative research work, while short papers are expected to present new 
relevant challenges and work in progress. All papers will be peer-reviewed by 
at least 3 members of the scientific Program Committee. The accepted papers 
will be published in the iPRES2011 proceedings (in digital).

Call for Posters and Demonstrations - Submissions are encouraged for a special 
session that for posters reporting emerging issues or work in progress, and 
also for demonstrations of innovative systems.

Call for Panels - Proposals for highly relevant panels are welcome. Panels are 
expected to be important community building actions, by promoting discussions 
on relevant issues and be presented by provocative expert panelists willing to 
engage with the audience.

Call for Workshops - Proposals for workshops, to be held after the main 
conference, are welcome.

Instructions for Submissions
* Proposals for full (8 to 10 pages) and short (4 pages) papers, and for 
posters or demonstrations
(2 pages) must be submitted to the electronic submission system according to 
the conference's template:
- Submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ipres2011
- Paper's template: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

* Proposals for workshops or panels must be submitted by the workshop or panel 
chair, by email, to ipressingap...@gmail.com
- Proposals for panels must detail the subject, the intended experts' panel, 
and the proposed model of interaction with the audience (this is going to be a 
key detail in the evaluation of the proposals).
- Proposals for workshops must detail the subject to be covered, the process 
for the call for participation, the important dates, the duration, and the 
proposed organization and scientific committees.


*** IMPORTANT DATES (UPDATED!) **

* 08 July 2011 - Abstracts for full and short papers due 
* 08 July 2011 - Full and short papers, posters and demonstrations proposals 
and workshop proposals due (midnight IDLW, GMT -12hrs)
* 22 August 2011 - Panel proposals due
* 28 August 2011 - Acceptance notification
* 15 September 2011 - Camera Ready Full and Short Papers
* 30 September 2011 - Early Registration

**

Previous iPRES Conferences: 
http://rdd.sub.uni-goettingen.de/conferences/ipres/ipres-en.html

For any questions about paper submission, please do not hesitate to contact 
Program Co-Chair Adam Jatowt at a...@dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp. 

[dcc-associates] News Release: Cloud services for education and research - projects and partners announced

[Joy Davidson]

News Release
23.6.2011

Cloud services for education and research - projects and partners announced
 
Since announcing a £12.5 million fund in February that aims to help 
universities and colleges deliver better value for money by working together 
more effectively (note 1), HEFCE and JISC are now able to confirm the projects 
and partners appointed to deliver the two parts of this work: a national cloud 
infrastructure and supporting services.
 
JANET (UK) will deliver the national brokerage to aid procurement of cloud 
services between higher education institutions and commercial suppliers and 
Eduserv will provide a pilot cloud infrastructure for higher education 
institutions. Other partners include De Montfort, Exeter, Edinburgh, Kent, 
Liverpool John Moores, Oxford, Leicester, Southampton and Sunderland 
universities (see Note 2 for a full list of partners).

So that colleges and universities can gain the most benefit from this new 
cloud-based infrastructure, four new services will be developed to drive its 
adoption:

. A new specialist team set up by JISC Advance to provide support for procuring 
and implementing administrative systems and services.
.  A shared service to help universities manage the administration of their 
research operations, from research proposal through to project completion. 
. A service to support the secure distribution of graduation documents and 
transcripts for the benefit of students and prospective employers.
. A service to support libraries in the administration of their electronic 
resources, which will include the management of their licensing and 
subscription of electronic journals.

David Sweeney, HEFCE Director - Research, Innovation and Skills, explains the 
value this suite of work will have once complete, "In the current economic 
climate all education organisations are looking for further ways to work 
together, share resources and reduce costs. This programme of work will provide 
data management and storage services, plus a suite of tools to help 
universities and colleges, researchers and administrators work more effectively 
across the research management lifecycle. This will reduce duplication and 
increase the efficiency of administrative and research processes."

David Utting JISC Director Service Relationships commented, "Cloud-based 
services have the potential to bring enormous efficiencies and benefits to 
higher education institutions and we look forward to working with them to 
realise these. But we acknowledge that it is vital to demonstrate to users the 
security and robustness of working in an education and research cloud. 
"There have been a number of high-profile issues with data being stored in 
public clouds, which is why we are working with JANET (UK) to deliver a private 
higher education cloud to ensure universities can trust that their information 
and data will be secure."

For further information visit http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/umf.aspx

Ends

Notes to editors:
Press enquiries, contact: Philip Walker at HEFCE on 0117 931 7363, 
p.wal...@hefce.ac.uk, or Rebecca O'brien at JISC on 07879 880198, 
r.obr...@jisc.ac.uk 

Notes
1. This £12.5 million is part of the University Modernisation Fund. For further 
information see 'Shared services in cloud computing to be funded by HEFCE' 

2. Who is involved?
The University of Exeter will lead the Research Management and Administration 
System (RMAS) work between the universities of Exeter, Kent, and Sunderland to 
procure, develop and implement a cloud-based research management and 
administration system based on a need identified by earlier feasibility studies 
funded by HEFCE.

De Montfort University is developing an enterprise service bus (ESB) solution 
to demonstrate interoperability between local and cloud systems for shared 
administrative applications, starting with RMAS.

JISC Collections will manage the electronic resource management support service 
which builds on work by JISC and the Society of College National and University 
Libraries (SCONUL).

The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) at University of Edinburgh will develop data 
management tools and training capability. This will support the production and 
implementation of data management plans for universities and their researchers 
to preserve data for sharing, re-use and citation.

A consortium led by Liverpool John Moores University will develop the secure 
document service.

Four projects will produce software applications which can be delivered as a 
service from the cloud. They will support researchers with their work and data 
management. These are:

. Leicester University is providing support for joint NHS and university 
research teams working with tissue samples and anonymised patient data. 
. The University of Oxford is providing a database to a wide range of 
researchers in the arts, humanities and other disciplines. Oxford will also 
provide an integrated set of tools to manage data within Life Science

[dcc-associates] DCC support for JISC Grant Funding 07/11: JISC Managing Research Data Programme

[Joy Davidson]

The DCC is pleased to offer dedicated support for institutions wishing to bid 
for JISC Grant Funding 07/11: JISC Managing Research Data Programme (02) 
2011-13. 

In addition to general support, we can provide help with developing and 
delivering training activities, benchmarking and impact assessment activities, 
and costs/benefits analyses. 

The DCC is particularly keen to cooperate with any institutions wishing to 
customise DMP Online for institutional or disciplinary use under Strand C of 
the 07/11 call. 

For more information on the 07/11 call, briefing day and relevant deadlines 
please see 
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2011/06/managingresearchdata.aspx.

For more information about how the DCC can help you with any of the above 
please get in touch with us via our dedicated MRD helpdesk page at 
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/contact-us/help-desk/data-management-infrastructure-helpdesk.

Best regards,
Joy

Joy Davidson
DCC Associate Director
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
George Service House, 11 University Gardens,
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QJ
Scotland
Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592
Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
http://www.dcc.ac.uk

[dcc-associates] DCC Data Management Roadshow, 22-24 June, Glasgow

[Joy Davidson]

Digital Curation Centre (DCC) Data Management Roadshow

University of Glasgow, 22nd-24th June 2011

www.dcc.ac.uk/events/data-management-roadshows/dcc-roadshow-glasgow<http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/data-management-roadshows/dcc-roadshow-glasgow>



Registration now open - http://asp.artegis.com/dccroadshowglasgow



Ethics boards, funding bodies and the general public are increasingly seeking 
evidence that adequate and appropriate provisions for data management and 
curation are in place for all university research activity whether externally 
funded or not. In addition, most data management activities are expected to be 
supported by the researcher's home institution.



- Are you a senior manager working to develop policies and 
strategies to improve research and data management at your institution? Are you 
interested to hear from others facing the same challenge?



- Are you a researcher producing data? Are you confused about 
funders' mandates and how you can meet them?



- Do you work to support researchers at your institution? Are you 
struggling to find ways to better supporting data management with fewer staff 
and financial resources to hand?



If any of the above applies to you, you could benefit from attending the next 
DCC Data Management Roadshow which will take place at the University of Glasgow 
Library on June 22nd-24th 2011. This free event will bring together 
participants from around Scotland to share examples of current practice and 
emerging strategies and provide an opportunity to discuss ideas on how to 
improve data management in light of current economic constraints.



The event will run over three days and will provide participants with advice 
and guidance tailored to a range of different roles and responsibilities within 
their institutions. The draft programmes for each day are now available on the 
event page 
www.dcc.ac.uk/events/data-management-roadshows/dcc-roadshow-glasgow<http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/data-management-roadshows/dcc-roadshow-glasgow>.
 Please feel free to forward this invitation to colleagues within your 
institution who may be interested.



Please register at: http://asp.artegis.com/dccroadshowglasgow



Best regards,

Joy



Joy Davidson

DCC Associate Director

Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)

George Service House, 11 University Gardens,

University of Glasgow

Glasgow G12 8QJ

Scotland

Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592

Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788

http://www.dcc.ac.uk<http://www.dcc.ac.uk/>

[dcc-associates] ICE Forum 2011 * Final programme now available*

[Joy Davidson]

***Apologies for cross-posting***

International Curation Education (ICE) Forum

Date: Wednesday 29 June, 2011
Location: University College London, The Roberts Building, Torrington Place, 
London, WC1E 7JE

The final programme for the ICE Forum is now available at 
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/preservation/iceforum.   

While this event will focus on sharing information about the latest 
developments in digital curation teaching and training it will also be of 
interest to anyone wishing to learn more about the range of resources available 
to help practitioners improve their curation skills. 

Further details about the event are provided below. 

***

The aim of this event will be to provide an international meeting place for 
educators, trainers, students and practitioners of digital curation to: 
discuss, evaluate, swap knowledge, and potentially improve practice around:

a) effective curricula and course design
b) production of advice and guidance materials (beginner, intermediate and 
expert)
c) creation and use of textbooks and scholarly material

More information is available at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/preservation/iceforum

Registration is available at:
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/workshops/international-curation-education-ice-forum/registration

The principal focus of this meeting will be on enabling all participants to 
learn as much as possible about the latest developments in digital curation 
teaching and training. Presentations will be combined with structured 
networking, lightning talks and feedback sessions to maximise opportunities for 
examining a wide range of approaches.

The event is being subsidised and led by JISC in association with: the Digital 
Curation Centre (DCC); the Institute of Library and Museum Services; the School 
of Library and Information Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel 
Hill; and the Department of Information Studies, University College London. The 
programme is being developed with input from an international advisory group.

The Forum will be an ideal opportunity for a number of different groups to 
congregate including: academics; curation training professionals; digital 
curators; repository managers; archivists; records managers; data managers; 
data librarians; publishers; commercial service providers; and students. It 
should be of interest to anyone who attended the DigCCurr conferences at UNC 
Chapel Hill (2007 & 2009) and will also build on the discussions of the IDEA 
(International Digital Curation Education Action) Group. 

The venue for the forum will be the UCL Roberts Building, a recent addition to 
the UCL Bloomsbury campus and home to the University's engineering faculty 
(http://bit.ly/fEXyJV). The venue is in the heart of the Bloomsbury university 
precinct and is convenient for all the cultural and social attractions that 
Central London has to offer. A small fee will be payable (via invoice) for 
attendance at the event in order to offset some of the costs.

Student - £25
University/ public sector staff - £45
Commercial delegates - £65 (sponsorship queries most welcome)


Neil Grindley
Programme Manager
Digital Preservation & Records Management
1st Floor Brettenham House (South)
5 Lancaster Place
London
WC2E 7EN
tel: 0203 006 6059
email: n.grind...@jisc.ac.uk

[dcc-associates] News release: JISC supports Hargreaves recommendations for better intellectual property framework

[Joy Davidson]

News release
19.5.2011

JISC supports Hargreaves recommendations for better intellectual property 
framework

JISC welcomes Professor Ian Hargreaves' independent review of the UK's 
intellectual property (IP) framework as a positive step towards easy, 
widespread access to information and resources.

Dr Malcolm Read, JISC executive secretary, says: "We support the key findings 
in the report which we anticipate will help optimise the impact of UK research 
and enable our world class universities to fully contribute towards innovation 
and growth.

"JISC has consistently advocated a more liberal, 'open' IP framework that can 
support innovative uses of digital assets.  For universities and colleges the 
following exceptions (below) are crucial as they will allow for and encourage 
digitization, preservation, access and re-use of digital content as well as 
supporting research and learning," he said.

* Exception for preservation

For universities and colleges to have long term access to electronic materials, 
the format-shifting and non-commercial use exceptions are vital. These support 
a general transition to electronic-only services, giving users anytime anywhere 
access and freeing up space and resources.

* Exception for text mining

Text mining allows researchers to extract and manipulate information and data 
from a range of sources. The change would have an enormous effect on the range 
and capability of UK research.

* Orphan Works provision

Orphan works  are those for which the rights holder is unknown or cannot be 
traced.  Enabling people to access and re-use these works would support 
teaching, learning and research immeasurably. Potentially this would encourage 
mass digitisation of digital content on which services and innovation can be 
built.

* Ensuring that copyright exceptions cannot be over-ridden by contract law

Currently, contracts can be used to override exceptions to copyright. 
Enshrining the exceptions in law will future proof the implementation of new 
proposed copyright exceptions and protect the current exceptions, supporting 
further innovation and growth.

* Building an exception into EU framework to facilitate adaptability to new 
technologies

This new exception future-proofs developments in new technology to make sure 
that that harmonised exceptions across Europe remain relevant.

Other recommended exceptions which JISC welcomes include the exceptions for 
parody and format shifting as well as extending the exception for non 
commercial research to all media.

UK colleges and universities contribute towards innovation and economic growth 
as part of a wider, rapidly evolving and complex eco-system which includes a 
spectrum of new and emergent business relationships and models.  In particular, 
recent studies have valued universities' knowledge exchange income (mainly 
patents) at £3 billion (2008/09) and the Universities UK report, The impact of 
universities on the UK economy, states that they contributed £59 billion to the 
UK economy in 2009.

JISC welcomes the full implementation of the recommendations outlined within 
the Hargreaves Review of IP to provide a basis for UK innovation, education and 
research with unprecedented opportunities to compete internationally in a fast 
moving digital age.  

Paul Ayris is president of the association of European research libraries, 
LIBER, and director of University College London library services as well as 
being UCL's copyright officer.  He says: "These exceptions provide a robust 
basis for UK education and research to support the UK's economic growth and 
innovation, digital literacy, the preservation of vulnerable materials and 
unlocking digital access to a wealth of vital cultural heritage content 
currently warehoused as orphan works. Moreover, the applications of text 
mining, which are immense and varied can be better harnessed by UK education 
and research, speeding up science and innovation and allowing UK's universities 
and colleges to work more efficiently."

Download the Hargreaves report (PDF)


JISC was invited to contribute to the report.  Read the document we sent 
Professor Hargreaves (PDF) 

To find out how JISC can help you with the issues raised by the review, visit 
the useful resources alongside this news story online 

[dcc-associates] RSC Publishing and University of Southampton drive the chemical semantic web

[Joy Davidson]

* * * Apologies for cross posting * * *

The Royal Society of Chemistry's (RSC) free chemical database ChemSpider has 
added Resource Description Framework (RDF) functionality to its interface, in 
collaboration with the University of Southampton's School of Chemistry. The 
availability of RDF allows the database records to be found and understood by 
semantic web tools, another step in ChemSpider's mission to create a public 
chemical information infrastructure.

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Richard Kidd, Informatics Manager at the RSC says "we are delighted to work 
with top academic teams pushing forward what's possible with semantic 
chemistry, and we hope others will use the RDF representation of ChemSpider to 
support their own developments"

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ChemSpider as a Linked Data source for oreChem

The machine-processable representation was specifically developed in order to 
leverage the core competencies of the ChemSpider database: resolvable 
identifiers; high-quality, curated metadata; and rich linking to the extensive 
RSC corpus. Furthermore, as part of the Microsoft Research-funded oreChem 
project, OAI-ORE technology is being used to facilitate the discovery and 
re-use of the chemical information in the correct context.

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Prof Jeremy Frey and Dr Simon Coles commented "it is a pleasure for Southampton 
to work with the RSC's ChemSpider as a culmination of our contribution to the 
Microsoft-funded oreChem project. As a member of the Southampton Chemistry 
eResearch team, this work forms the core of graduate student Mark Borkum's PhD 
thesis."

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"Enabling open, semantic chemistry in this way is a monumental step forward for 
the domain," notes Lee Dirks, director of Education & Scholarly Communication 
for Microsoft Research, "We're thrilled to have played a role in facilitating 
the creation of this resource and extremely pleased to see Southampton and the 
RSC innovating and leading the field."

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Another oreChem participant, Carl Lagoze, the Associate Professor, Cornell 
University Information Science, Co-Director Open Archives Initiative added 
"it's wonderful to see the results of our work on OAI-ORE in this exciting 
application. It fulfils our goal of making the results of research easier to 
disseminate and reuse"

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ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast access to over 
25 million structures, properties and associated information. By integrating 
and linking compounds from more than 400 data sources, ChemSpider enables 
researchers to discover the most comprehensive view of freely available 
chemical data from a single online search.
 
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[dcc-associates] News release: cloud computing increasingly attractive to universities, says JISC

[Joy Davidson]

News release
16.5.2011

Cloud computing increasingly attractive to universities, says JISC

There is a "compelling case for using the cloud for research", JISC's 
innovation director for digital infrastructure argued last week.

Speaking at an 'inside government' forum on cloud in the public sector, Rachel 
Bruce said: "It's clear that universities need the right infrastructure for the 
right job, and hybrid infrastructure with local and public provision is 
required.  But investment in the cloud is often driven by cost - so cloud 
computing is a particularly attractive option for smaller institutions who 
can't afford to replace their physical hardware to do the same job."

Rachel highlighted some of the reasons that universities are increasingly 
looking to use the cloud for their research services.

Cloud is attractive because it can help universities and similar organisations:

1.Reduce environmental and financial costs - where functions are 
only needed for short periods, for example

2.Share the load - when a university is working with a partner 
organisation so that neither organisation need develop or maintain a physical 
infrastructure

3.Be flexible and pay as you go - researchers may need to use 
specialized web-based software that cannot be supported by in-house facilities 
or policies

4.Access data centres, web applications and services from any 
location

5.Make experiments more repeatable - write-ups of science 
experiments performed in the cloud can contain reference to cloud applications 
like a virtual machine, making the experiment easier to replicate

JISC committee member and Pro Vice Chancellor of Roehampton University, Chris 
Cobb, also addressed an Eduserv symposium last week on shared services.

He said: "With the universal drive for efficiencies, shared services has become 
even more topical. The key though is to examine opportunities at a process 
level and not as whole systems or organisational units. JISC is undertaking 
valuable work in supporting institutions in improved understanding of their 
processes and the relationship of processes to systems and physical 
infrastructure.

"Through this, institutions are better placed to take advantage of services 
orientated architecture, 'software as a service' and cloud based technologies 
to increase resilience and reduce costs. With cultural barriers to shared 
services now dissipating, the time is right to consider shared services more 
strategically and not just opportunistically as has been the case so far."

JISC is currently working to help organisations better understand the costs of 
a cloud infrastructure and help them make decisions about how the cloud might 
fit their business models.

This includes delivering part of the Universities Modernisation Fund, a £12.5 
million HEFCE fund that aims to help universities and colleges deliver better 
efficiency and value for money through shared services.

JISC is, for example, contributing funding to eleven pilot projects with the 
Engineering and Physical Sciences research council (EPSRC) to explore and 
develop new cloud computing technologies for research.  

Find out how the pilots are going 


JISC is also helping over 40 UK universities and colleges navigate through the 
steps needed to improve their IT service delivery for students and staff 
including evaluating the possibilities for cloud computing.

Read JISC's tagged articles on cloud computing using the Delicious social 
bookmarking service 

Read what Publictechnology.net said about Rachel Bruce's talk 


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[dcc-associates] FW: open science and open access: thoughts, current practice, hopes & dreams?

[Joy Davidson]

Of possible interest to list members.


From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On 
Behalf Of Sarah Currier
Sent: 13 May 2011 11:41
To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: open science and open access: thoughts, current practice, hopes & 
dreams?

Dear all,

I'm doing some investigation on behalf of the Centre for Research 
Communication's Research Communications Strategy project on strategic issues 
for open science and citizen science. For more details and definitions see 
here: 
http://rcsproject.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/open-science-and-citizen-science-investigating-the-strategic-issues/

I'm wondering what people on this list who are involved in open access for 
research publications think about some of the issues we're looking at (I'll 
also be asking the JISC-OER community in relation to teaching & learning so 
please hold those points for that thread!). This isn't a survey, more an 
attempt to spark some discussion and see what you all are thinking, doing or 
wanting in open science and citizen science. If any of these questions elicit a 
response that you'd like to share, please go for it. I'll also accept non-open 
(off-list) responses if you have observations you'd prefer be anonymised for my 
report!

- Do you think repositories for open access research publications should get 
involved in supporting open scientific/research data? What about open notebook 
science, the practice of making the entire research process (not just 
findings/data) openly available to all on the Web?

- If not, why not? Who should be taking care of this data and how?

- Are you already involved in supporting open notebook science or open science 
data at your institution? What about citizen science initiatives?

- If so, what are the implementation issues? Storage and scaling, formatting, 
user interfaces, metadata, etc., etc.?

- What, in your view, are the issues for strategists, policy makers and 
funders, at institutional, government and funding body levels? What do you 
think should be funded or supported by policy? What's your wish list?

Many thanks all,
Sarah

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[dcc-associates] 1st CfP: iPRES2011: 8th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects, Singapore

[Joy Davidson]

***Apologies for cross-posting***



*

Call for Contributions



iPRES 2011 - 8th International Conference on Digital Preservation of Digital 
Objects

November 1-4, Singapore

*



http://ipres2011.posterous.com



iPRES, the main international conference on digital preservation, is calling 
for proposals for

original full and short papers, panels, workshops, posters and demonstrations.



Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Domain-specific Challenges (Cultural Heritage, Technical and 
ScientificProcesses and Data,

Engineering Models and Simulation, Medical Records, Corporate Processes and 
Recordkeeping, Web

Archiving, Personal Archiving, e-Procurement, etc.)

* Systems Life-cycle (Requirements, Modeling, Design, Development, Deployment 
and Maintenance)

* Trusted Repositories and Governance (Risk Analysis, Planning, Audit 
andCertification, Business

Models, Cost Estimation, etc.)

* Case Studies and Best Practices (Processes, Metadata, Systems, Services, 
Infrastructures, etc.)

* Innovation in Digital Preservation (Novel Challenges and Scenarios, 
Innovative Approaches)

* Added-value of Digital Preservation (Emerging Exploitation Scenarios and the 
Long-Tail of Digital

Repositories and Archives)

* Training and Education

* Theory of Digital Preservation



Call for Papers - iPRES 2011 invites submissions for full and short papers 
reporting on novel

previously unpublished work. Full papers are expected to report innovative 
research work, while

short papers are expected to present new relevant challenges and work in 
progress. All papers will

be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the scientific Program Committee. The 
accepted papers will

be published in the iPRES2011 proceedings (in digital).



Call for Posters and Demonstrations - Submissions are encouraged for a special 
session that for

posters reporting emerging issues or work in progress, and also for 
demonstrations of innovative

systems.



Call for Panels - Proposals for highly relevant panels are welcome. Panels are 
expected to be

important community building actions, by promoting discussions on relevant 
issues and be presented

by provocative expert panelists willing to engage with the audience.



Call for Workshops - Proposals for workshops, to be held after the main 
conference, are welcome.



Instructions for Submissions

* Proposals for full (8 to 10 pages) and short (4 pages) papers, and for 
posters or demonstrations

(2 pages) must be submitted to the electronic submission system accordingto the 
conference's template:

- Submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ipres2011

- Paper's template: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates



* Proposals for workshops or panels must be submitted by the workshop or panel 
chair, by email, to

ipres2...@gmail.com

- Proposals for panels must detail the subject, the intended experts' panel, 
and the proposed model

of interaction with the audience (this is going to be a key detail in 
theevaluation of the proposals).

- Proposals for workshops must detail the subject to be covered, the process 
for the call for

participation, the important dates, the duration, and the proposed organization 
and scientific

committees.





*** IMPORTANT DATES **



* 15 June 2011 - Workshops proposals due

* 01 July 2011 - Full and short papers, posters and demonstrations proposals due

* 22 August 2011 - Panels proposals due

* 28 August 2011 - Acceptance notification

* 15 September 2011 - Camera Ready Full and Short Papers

* 30 September 2011 - Early Registration



**



Previous iPRES Conferences: 
http://rdd.sub.uni-goettingen.de/conferences/ipres/ipres-en.html

[dcc-associates] International Workshop on "Semantic Digital Archives - sustainable long-term curation perspectives of Cultural Heritage"

[Joy Davidson]

***Call for Papers***



Semantic Digital Archives - sustainable long-term curation perspectives of 
Cultural Heritage

29.09.2011

Berlin



International Workshop on "Semantic Digital Archives - sustainable long-term 
curation perspectives of Cultural Heritage" to be held as part of the 15th 
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL).



Objectives:

The Semantic Digital Archives Workshop aims at promoting and discussing 
sophisticated knowledge representation and knowledge management solutions 
specifically designed for improving Archival Information Systems.

Over the past couple of decades, digitally created content has come to permeate 
all aspects of our lives and the life cycle of these objects is increasingly 
exclusively digital. Therefore, sustainable long-term curation perspectives for 
our digital cultural heritage are essential. Digital content poses many 
socio-cultural and technological challenges which create obstacles to long-term 
or indefinite preservation. Changing technologies and shifting user communities 
as well as the increasing complexity of digital content being enriched with 
software and multimedia attachments are only a few examples. Dealing with these 
challenges is the central theme of the workshop. This full day workshop is an 
exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the 
Digital Libraries, the Digital Archives and the Semantic Web community. It 
specifically encourages closer dialogue between the technical oriented 
communities and researchers from the (digital) humanities and social sciences 
as well as cultural heritage institutions.



Topics of Interest:

We intend to have an open discussion on topics related to the general subject 
of Semantic Digital Archives. The following list of topics is meant as an 
initial guide. Hence, we welcome contributions that focus on, but are not 
limited to:



* ontologies and linked data for digital archives and digital 
libraries, e.g. semantic extensions of common knowledge models of the digital 
archiving and digital libraries domain, e.g. METS, EAD, Premis, ...

* ontologies and (semantic) web services implementing the OAIS standard

* theoretical and practical archiving frameworks extending or replacing 
the OAIS standard

* logical theories for digital archives

* implementations and evaluations of digital archives

* semantic or logical provenance models for digital archives or digital 
libraries

* information integration/semantic ingest (e.g. from digital libraries)

* trust for ingest and data security/integrity check for long-term 
storage of archival records

* semantic search and semantic information retrieval in digital 
archives and digital libraries

* visualization and exploration of digital content (stored or to be 
stored in a digital archive)

* semantic extensions of emulation/virtualization methodologies 
tailored for digital archives

* migration strategies based on semantic (web) technologies

* semantic long-term storage and hardware organization tailored for AIS

* (empirical) studies evaluating end-user needs and its evolution as 
well as information

* seeking behaviour of end-user needs and its evolution

* knowledge evolution



Submission Details:

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers related to 
the aforementioned topics.



We invite:

* regular papers (10 to 12 pages)

* short papers (4 to 6 pages)



All submissions are required to be in pdf format. All submissions should be 
anonymous (i.e., no author names/affiliations and obvious citations). Long and 
short paper submissions should be in the Springer's LNCS format.

Submissions are to be made via the submission web site: 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sda2011



Submissions will be reviewed by the three members of the Program Committee. All 
papers accepted at the Semantic Digital Archives Workshop must be presented 
during the Workshop by a TPDL 2011 and SDA Workshop registered participant. All 
papers will be published in workshop proceedings, which will be available as a 
separate publication after the Workshop



Important Dates

Deadline for Submissions: 30 June 2011

Acceptance Notification: 30. July 2011

Camera-ready Papers: 20. August 2011



Organizing Committee & Program Committee

The Organizing Committee members and a preliminary list of Program Committee 
members can be found at http://sda2011.dke-research.de/index.php/committees



Further Details

http://sda2011.dke-research.de

[dcc-associates] Open Knowledge Foundation Newsletter No.17 Jan -March 2011

[Joy Davidson]

The latest issue of the Open Knowledge Foundation Newsletter provides details 
of some new tools that may be of interest to list members. I've included 
relevant excerpts below. 

Best regards,
Joy

Joy Davidson
DCC Associate Director
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
George Service House, 11 University Gardens,
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QJ
Scotland
Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592
Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
http://www.dcc.ac.uk


GET THE DATA AND OPEN DATA SEARCH
==

It's amazing to see the pace with which more and more data is becoming
openly available, and to help everyone navigate the rising tides we've
launched two new tools. The first, Get The Data
(<http://getthedata.org/>), lets you ask and answer data-related
questions, like "Where can I find historical weather data?" or "Where
can I find a list of airports with their locations?" In the words of
the developers, "if you want to GetTheData, but can't for whatever
reason, just ask GetTheData.org"!

The second tool we've launched is the site Open Data Search -
<http://opendatasearch.org/>, a new meta search engine for open data.
It's a global version of the publicdata.eu site we announced in the
last newsletter - an aggregator for datasets, providing a simple and
unified search interface to all of the catalogues contained. We'd love
to have your contributions - get in touch with ckan-discuss:
<http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/ckan-discuss>!

 * Launch of Get the Data:
<http://blog.okfn.org/2011/01/20/introducing-getthedataorg-ask-and-answer-data-related-questions/>
 * Launch of Open Data Search:
<http://blog.okfn.org/2011/03/16/open-data-search-finding-useful-datasets-worldwide/>

 * Congratulations to our friends over at Publish What You Fund, the
global campaign for aid transparency: after two years of negotiations,
the 18 donors of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)
have agreed the final details of a new global standard for publishing
aid information. AidData, an initiative to make information on
development aid more transparent and accessible, are planning to make
all their respository, covering over 90 donor agencies between 1945
and 2009, available in the new format that the IATI has created by
May. See 
<http://blog.okfn.org/2011/03/25/the-aid-revolution-begins-with-xml-the-aid-revolution-begins-here/>
for more!

 * We're excited by the launch of Figshare, a new tool for
researchers to share their scientific data, including negative results
and unpublished figures:
<http://blog.okfn.org/2011/03/02/introducing-figshare-a-new-way-to-share-open-scientific-data/>.
All the data that goes up there will also be available through the new
CKAN science group: <http://ckan.net/group/science> - so get
publishing!

 * Probono Publico have announced that the second edition of the
Desafío AbreDatos (Open Data Challenge) will take place in Spain on
the weekend of May 7th-8th. The contest aims to raise awareness about
the potential of Open Data by  having teams compete in developing
services and applications using  public data in only 48 hours. Find
out more at 
<http://www.epsiplatform.eu/news/news/desafio_abredatos_spanish_open_data_challenge>.

* Montreal has passed a mandate for an official city working group
on open-data. You can see the full mandate at
<http://montrealouvert.net/2011/03/30/mandat-relatif-a-l'ouverture-des-donnees-de-la-ville-de-montreal/>
- let's hope it inspires other cities to do the same!

 * Another city-level challenge is coming from Berlin, where a
campaign has been launched to open up Berlin public transport data:
<http://blog.okfn.org/2011/03/15/public-transport-data-for-berlin/>.
Why not write to the BVG or the VBB and tell them you think it's a
good idea!

 * As Wikipedia celebrated its 10th birthday in January, Wikimedia
Research Comittee have  launched a survey to understand why
scientists, academics and other  experts do (or do not) contribute to
Wikipedia. Find out more, and contribute to the debate, through the
OKF blog: 
<http://blog.okfn.org/2011/02/24/experts-to-underpin-wikipedia%E2%80%99s-open-wisdom-turning-anecdotes-into-data/>.

The Open Knowledge Foundation is a not-for-profit organization. It is
incorporated in the United Kingdom as a company limited by guarantee
with company number 5133759. The registered office is 37 Panton
Street, Cambridge, CB2 1HL, UK.

Compiled by Theodora Middleton, Newsletter Editor -
theodora[dot]middleton[at]okfn[dot]org

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[dcc-associates] New Digital Curation Reference Manual Instalment: The role of microfilm in digital preservation

[Joy Davidson]

The DCC's Digital Curation Reference Manual is designed to help data 
custodians, producers and users better understand the challenges they face and 
the roles that they play in creating, managing and preserving digital 
information over time. For each topic covered, suggestions for best practice 
and real life examples are given. The DCC are delighted to announce the release 
of the following new instalment.  

The role of microfilm in digital preservation

Authors: Heather Brown, John Baker, Walter Cybulski, Andy Fenton, John Glover, 
Paul Negus, Jonas Palm of the International Microfilm Collaboration working 
group

Drawing on a risk management perspective, this instalment introduces the 
complementary role that microfilm, and particularly computer output microfilm 
(COM), can play within the broad spectrum of digital preservation. It provides 
some international examples of current and best practice and highlights some 
technical issues relating to standards.

The instalment can be accessed at 
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-reference-manual/microfilm. 

Other instalments in the series can be accessed at 
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-reference-manual/completed-chapters. 

Best regards,

Joy Davidson
DCC Associate Director
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
George Service House, 11 University Gardens,
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QJ
Scotland
Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592
Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
http://www.dcc.ac.uk 

[dcc-associates] FW: ORCID (IDs for researchers) participant meeting at Harvard May 18

[Joy Davidson]

Of possible interest to list members. 

-Original Message-
From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On 
Behalf Of MacKenzie Smith
Sent: 19 April 2011 21:16
To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: ORCID (IDs for researchers) participant meeting at Harvard May 18

* apologies for cross-posting 

The next ORCID participant meeting will be held on May 18 at Harvard. Please 
register if you would like to attend (registration is free).

ORCID (Open Researcher & Participant ID) is partnership among universities, 
publishers, funding bodies and other organizations in the scholarly 
communications space. It aims to solve the name (author, grantee, etc) 
ambiguity problem in attribution of scholarship-a problem that can only be 
solved collaboratively, when all stakeholders agree on a standard 
identification scheme. ORCID is currently creating a central registry of unique 
identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking 
mechanism between ORCID and other identifiers. If you are interested in finding 
out more, please join us for the next ORCID participant meeting:

May 18, 9am - 5pm
1730 Cambridge St.
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS Building
Harvard University

http://www.orcid.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1


MacKenzie Smith
MIT Libraries

[dcc-associates] FW: Free DevCSI Cloud Services Workshop, Friday 27th May, 2011, Southampton

[Joy Davidson]

*Apologies for cross posting*

DevCSI are running a FREE Cloud services workshop on Friday 27th of May, 
2011 at the University of Southampton.

The one day workshop will give you an overview of Cloud technologies and 
showcase examples of how the technology is used in further and higher 
education. It is aimed at developers, web developers and systems 
administrators, who are interested in Cloud technology, either to have a 
quick introduction or to explore some of the more recent developments 
that have been taking place in this area. The workshop will cover the 
basics of commercial linux cloud usage.

The day will include sessions on:

 * Basics of the Cloud
 * Advanced services / Snapshotting / Backups
 * Examples of how Cloud services are used in further and higher 
education
 * Cloud Security
 * Amazon's Cloudfront CDN

Time has also been allocated for a number of lightning sessions where 
delegates can talk about projects, technologies or issues that they 
think other attendees will find interesting.

A free lunch and refreshments will be provided.

The event is being organised by the DevCSI project and staff from the 
University of Southampton and the University of Kent with support from 
the University of Southampton.

Workshop requirements

 *A knowledge of Linux
Optional but very preferable requirements

 *An Amazon AWS account (http://aws.amazon.com/), this requires 
a debit or credit card. We strongly recommend getting an account as the 
workshop will be a far better experience this way.

Please note, the tag for this event is: #devcsi


For more information and a booking form, please visit:

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/devcsi/cloud_workshop/index.html

Places are limited, so please book early!

-
   Mr Mahendra Mahey

   Project Manager DevCSI and CERIFy Projects
   Research Officer
   UKOLN,
   University of Bath,
   Bath,
   BA2 7AY

   Tel: ++44 (0) 1225 384594
   Fax: ++44 (0) 1225 386256
   Mobile: ++44 (0) 7896300820
   email: m.ma...@ukoln.ac.uk
   skypeID: mr_mahendra_mahey
   http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/
   http://cerify.ukoln.ac.uk/
   http://www.ukoln.ac.uk
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[dcc-associates] FW: DINI Certificate "Document and Publication Services" 2010

[Joy Davidson]

Of possible interest to list members. 

-Original Message-
From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On 
Behalf Of Heinz Pampel
Sent: 14 April 2011 10:28
To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: DINI Certificate "Document and Publication Services" 2010

*** Apologies for cross-posting ***

DINI Certificate "Document and Publication Services" 2010

In summer 2010 the DINI working group for Electronic Publishing released 
the third edition of the DINI Certificate "Document and Publication 
Services" and by this adapted the well-established criteria catalogue 
for scholarly repository services to current developments. Now, the 
English version of the DINI Certificate 2010 has been made available to 
the public.

The global scientific communication system is subject to a fundamental 
transition process. Due to new opportunities arising from the internet 
and other information and communication technologies and also to the 
changing requirements of scholars and scientists, new means and channels 
for scientific communication develop. A leading development is the 
global Open Access movement committed to the idea of freely available 
scientific and scholarly publications.

To support the numerous developments in Germany and to set common 
standards for publication infrastructures DINI's Electronic Publishing 
working group embraced this topic early on and in 2002 published its 
first recommendations for "Electronic Publishing in Higher Education". 
Based on these documents, the working group formulated criteria and 
formalized them in the DINI Certificate "Document and Publication 
Services". Following the 2004 and 2007 editions, 2010 is the third 
version of the document. The certificate describes technical, 
organisational and legal aspects that should be considered in the 
process of setting up and operating a scholarly repository service and 
puts considerable interest in Open Access. The aim of DINI is to move 
forward towards a standardised and interoperable repository landscape to 
improve the visibility and linkages of scientific publications.  During 
the years the DINI certificate has gained reputation as standard-setting 
authority for repositories.

The latest edition of the DINI certificate addresses particularly the 
following aspects:
 - The growing importance of the "golden road" to Open Access.
 - The increased demand for interoperability with comprehensive 
services.
 - The growing technical virtualization of Document and Publication 
Services (hosting of services).
 - A comprehensive view of the scientific and scholarly research 
processes.

The new English version can be found at
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-100182800

Today, there are about 140 OA repositories in Germany. A list of German 
repositories can be found at
http://www.dini.de/dini-zertifikat/liste-der-repositorien

Different DINI projects such as OA Network and OA Statistics promote the 
further development of repositories in Germany. Please visit 
http://www.dini.de/projekte/eng/ for an overview.

*About DINI*
The German Initiative for Network Information (DINI, Deutsche Initiative 
für Netzwerkinformation) is the most relevant organisation in Germany 
for supporting a national repository infrastructure. DINI is organised 
in working groups for thematic fields like IPR, Standards and Electronic 
Publishing. DINI regularly organises workshops and conferences for 
promoting the use and the quality of digital repositories. It has 
initiated several projects to support the technical development of a 
network of digital repositories and actively encourages the process of 
DINI certification. The DINI certificate was developed and is regularly 
updated by the Electronic Publishing working group. The certification 
process evaluates and improves the quality of publication services by 
referring to international standards and quality criteria. In 
consequence, the process improves data quality and conformity to enable 
services and the networking of repositories. Currently 37 German 
repositories have received the DINI certificate.

*Contact*
Dr. Uwe Müller | u.muel...@dnb.de
Frank Scholze  | frank.scho...@kit.edu


Heinz Pampel

Helmholtz Open Access Project
Coordination Office

Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Library of the Albert Einstein Science Park
Telegrafenberg
14473 Potsdam
Fon: + 49 (0) 331-288 1948
Fax: + 49 (0) 331-288 1914
E-Mail: pam...@gfz-potsdam.de

Helmholtz Open Access Project:
http://oa.helmholtz.de

 

[dcc-associates] IDCC11 - Call for Papers

[Joy Davidson]

***Apologies for cross posting***

7th International Digital Curation Conference - CALL FOR PAPERS
Title: "Public? Private? Personal? navigating the open data landscape"
5 - 7 December 2011, Bristol, UK
**

IDCC11 will be presented by the Digital Curation Centre, UK in
partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI).
The Programme Committee invites submissions of papers that reflect
current concerns in digital curation and specific concerns arising from
our conference theme:
*Lessons learned from the inter-disciplinary use of open data:
  examples of enablers, barriers and success stories
*Curation of mixed data collections, with open and sensitive or private
content
*Gathering evidence for benefits of data sharing
*Building capacity for the effective management, sharing and reuse of
  open data
*Scale issues in the management of sensitive data
*Tensions between maintaining quality and openness
*Linked data, open data, closed data and provenance
*Technical and organisational solutions for data security
*Developing new metrics for open data
*Ethical issues and personal data
*Legislation and open data

Full details of the Call for Papers can be found at:
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc11/call-papers

Submissions will be accepted from 9 May 2011

Sent on behalf of IDCC11 Programme Committee
Co-chaired by Kevin Ashley - Director of the Digital Curation Centre
(DCC), Liz Lyon - Associate Director of the DCC and Clifford Lynch,
Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI).

**
Bridget Robinson
DCC Community Development
UKOLN, University of Bath
Bath BA2 7AY
Tel: + 44 (0) 1225 383343
*
7th International Digital Curation Conference
Bristol,December 2011
www.dcc.ac.uk

[dcc-associates] FW: [DIGLIB] VuDL Open Source Software

[Joy Davidson]

Of possible interest to list members. 

-Original Message-
From: Michael Foight [mailto:michael.foi...@villanova.edu] 
Sent: 11 April 2011 14:32
To: dig...@infoserv.inist.fr
Subject: [DIGLIB] VuDL Open Source Software


Apologies for cross-posting

For Immediate Release

Falvey Library announces VuDL: Open Source Digital Library
Administration, Alpha Launch

VILLANOVA, Pa. (April 11, 2011) - The Technology Development team at
Villanova University's Falvey Memorial Library announces the official
alpha launch of their open source digital library management software,
VuDL (http://vudl.org).  With VuDL, you can store, manipulate, display
and make discoverable your digital collections.

Most digital library software packages are targeted at either
small/specific collections or very large/very complicated collections.
The former may not have the functionality to describe your objects
properly; the latter, too many options and therefore needless
complexity.  VuDL is designed to be somewhere in the middle: flexible
enough to describe different ranges of objects, while small enough to
diminish technical overhead.

The simple-to-use Digital Library Administration application is powered
by all open source technologies, and provides a METS metadata editor,
service image generation tools, XML database repository, and a built-in
OAI server.

The core of VuDL's application is powered by Orbeon Forms, a powerful
XML/XForms processor, eXist (a native XML database) and the server's
file system combine to support the data and image repository.

VuDL's public interface is powered by VuFind (http://vufind.org), an
Open Source online public access catalog (OPAC) hosted and managed by
Villanova University. VuFind is currently in use in academic and
research libraries in 12 countries, including the National Library of
Australia and the London School of Economics.

Villanova is actively seeking development partners! VuDL is offered for
free through the GPL open source license.  For more information and to
download the software, visit http://www.vudl.org.

Contact: David Lacy
Villanova University, Falvey Library
800 Lancaster Ave
Villanova, PA 19085
david.l...@villanova.edu
610-519-7361
http://library.villanova.edu
http://digital.library.villanova.edu
http://vudl.org

[dcc-associates] ANADP Registration Deadline - May 9th: Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation Conference

[Joy Davidson]

elists include: Neil Grindley (Joint Information Systems Committee - JISC), 
Bohdana Stoklasova (National Library of Czech Republic, Prague), Aaron Trehub 
(Auburn University, ADPNet)

Educational Alignment
The Education Panel, Chaired by Joy Davidson from HATII, University of Glasgow, 
will review recent developments in embedding data management and curation 
skills in information technology, library and information science, and 
research-based postgraduate courses in various national contexts. The panel 
will also investigate means of joining up formal education with professional 
development training opportunities more coherently. The potential of 
professional internships as a means of improving communication and 
understanding between disciplines will also be explored. A key aim of this 
panel will be to identify what level of complementarity is needed across 
various disciplines to most effectively and efficiently support the entire data 
curation lifecycle. 

Panelists include: George Coulbourne (U.S. Library of Congress), Sheila Corrall 
(University of Sheffield), and Andreas Rauber (Technical University of Vienna)

The outcomes for the event will be a strategic alignment of national approaches 
to enable new forms of international cooperation and an edited volume that 
documents an action plan for building collaboration among interested digital 
preservation initiatives.

Keynotes include:

*   Laura Campbell - (U.S. Library of Congress) 
*   Gunnar Sahlin - (National Library of Sweden)

Current Sponsors include:

*   U.S. Library of Congress 
*   University of North Texas Libraries 
*   EQUELLA
*   ProQuest 
*   Auburn University Libraries 
*   Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) 
*   Microsoft Research Connections 
*   CLOCKSS 
*   EBSCO Host 
*   Tessella Technology & Consulting 
*   Oracle
*   Internet Archive 
*   DuraSpace/DuraCloud 
*   Guardtime 
*   OCLC

Please visit http://www.Educopia.org/events/ANADP to register or to get more 
information on participating in this conference. Deadline for Registration is 
May 9th, 2011!


-- 
Matt Schultz
Collaborative Services Librarian
Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative
http://www.metaarchive.org
matt.schu...@metaarchive.org
616-566-3204

 

[dcc-associates] FW: Confused by copyright? In the dark about IPR?

[Joy Davidson]

This new resource may be of interest to list members. 

Best regards,
Joy

-Original Message-
From: Sharon E. Crossan [mailto:sharonecros...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 07 April 2011 15:12
Subject: Confused by copyright? In the dark about IPR?

***Apologies for cross-posting***

News release
7 April 2011

Confused by copyright? In the dark about IPR?

A new elearning module from the JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance is
to
help update people dealing with intellectual property rights in
universities, colleges, museums, libraries and other public bodies.

Access the module at 

The module will help them understand the implications and roles of
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and licensing - all crucial to their
institution's role as a provider, aggregator and/or publisher of digital
content.

After completing the module, they will be better able to create, exploit
and
manage digital content with confidence, and most importantly, using a
risk
managed approach.

To help make these complex areas more understandable, the module is
divided
into six learning objects with supporting case studies, video and
animation:

1. Introduction to IPR and Licensing
2. Creative Commons Licences
3. Orphan Works and Risk Management
4. Digital Economy Act
5. Accessing and Using Third Party Content
6. Protecting and Managing Rights

Naomi Korn, one of the authors of the resource, said: "The module has
been
developed to directly address those people in institutions who may be
new to
the issues around intellectual property rights and licensing or for
those
who want to learn more about specific issues.  We anticipate that people
will want to customise, reuse and share the information so it is has
been
developed in an open source platform and the content licensed under
Creative
Commons licences, making the resource as flexible as possible."

The module supplements and forms part a range of products and tools to
support the management of IPR created by the Alliance.

Sarah Fahmy, manager of the Strategic Content Alliance, said: "Whilst
there
is little current case law, the education sector risks reputational
damage
and loss of trust with publishers and other rights holders in the event
that
copyright and other IPRs are not handled appropriately.

"Universities and colleges need support to ensure that their own rights
are
adequately protected, contractual agreements with any funding bodies are
upheld and the ramifications of using digital content for which rights
holders are unknown or cannot be traced - so called 'orphan works' - are
thoroughly considered."

The module has been developed for the Strategic Content Alliance by IPR
consultants Naomi Korn and Emma Beer, and  by Robert Stillwell and Dr
Neil
Witt in the department for technology enhanced learning at Plymouth
University.

Access the module at 

Read more advice and guidance on IPR and related issues through the
toolkit
<
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/themes/content/contentalliance/reports/ip
r.aspx
>

Stay up to date with the Strategic Content Alliance at <
http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/wp/ipr-publications/>

-- 
Sharon E. Crossan
Email: sharonecros...@gmail.com
Phone: 07928 887 461 / 01792 60 2451
Twitter: http://twitter.com/libshari
Skype: sharon.e.crossan

[dcc-associates] FW: JCDL2011 Disciplinary Repositories workshop - Call for presentations

[Joy Davidson]

-Original Message-
From: Repositories discussion list
[mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simeon Warner
Sent: 07 April 2011 18:52
To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: JCDL2011 Disciplinary Repositories workshop - Call for
presentations

ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2011: Workshop on
Disciplinary Repositories and Field-Specific Digital Libraries

*** Call for Presentations ***

Disciplinary repositories (DR) are a very particular instance of digital
libraries, focused on collections of documents (and increasingly
additional material) pertinent to a particular subject area or
discipline. Several disciplinary repositories have grown to be
cornerstones of the scientific workflows of scholars in the areas they
serve, more successfully than broadband tools such as the freely
accessible Google Scholar or subscription based services such Web of
Knowledge, SCOPUS, and INSPEC. 

The large user bases of disciplinary repositories (sometimes all the
scholars of a discipline) and their large corpuses (sometimes all
scientific articles in a field) makes them unique computer science,
information science and social laboratories.

This workshop will be held at JCDL 2011 (http://www.jcdl2011.org) from
1pm Thursday 16 June through 12noon Friday 17 June. The workshop will be
of interest to anyone running or planning a DR, and anyone interested in
data mining DR corpora. It will share "secrets for success"; allow
discussions of technology, services, interoperability, and the
engagement of users; and foster communication within the DR community.
We call for proposals for short or lightening presentations on all
aspects of disciplinary repositories and field-specific digital
libraries. Some slots for longer talks may be made available for talks
of particular interest and relevance for the audience. Topics may
include:

* DR architecture, infrastructure and maintenance
* Social aspects: populating and growing DRs
* Sustainability through open access, proprietary access and hybrid
models
* User interaction, interface design and usability
* Value-added and innovative services
* Interaction and integration with IRs, other DRs and proprietary
systems
* DR as research corpus and platform for experiments

Please submit one page proposals in PDF to
jcdl2011.dr.works...@gmail.com by 1 May 2011. Notification of acceptance
will follow by 9 May 2011 with indication of talk length (lightening or
longer contribution). At that time a timetable will be posted on the
workshop website (https://indico.cern.ch/event/JCDL2011-DR). All
accepted proposals will be collected with outcomes from the workshop in
a summary article outlining the status of digital repositories. The
workshop will have no proceedings. 

Workshop chairs:
   C. Lee Giles (Pennsylvania State University),
   Salvatore Mele (CERN),
   Simeon Warner (Cornell University)

[dcc-associates] FW: JISC Automating Quality Assurance Project, event invitation

[Joy Davidson]

Of possible interest to the list. 

 



From: Repositories discussion list
[mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julie Allinson
Sent: 11 March 2011 10:50
To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: JISC Automating Quality Assurance Project, event invitation

 

Hi everyone,

The JISC Automating Quality Assurance (AQuA) Project, is running two
three-day events where we are hoping to bring together those with
significant expertise in curation and/or preservation technology, with
people managing large collections of digital materials. The aim is to
find lightweight, reusable solutions to common quality assurance
problems. The information below provides more details.

I hope members of the list will find the events interesting, and sign
up.

Many thanks,

Julie

Do you have large amounts of digital content to look after? 

How well do you know your digital content?
Is your file what it says it is?
Do your users do your QA for you?
Intimidated by digital preservation tools?

These and many more questions will be explored and hopefully answered by
the Automating Quality Assurance Project (AQuA) project events in April
and June 2011. Are you a coder, technical expert, collection curator,
digital preservation practitioner or a little of each? Then come along
and partcipate in the AQuA events, to be held 11-13 April 2011 and 13-15
June 2011, where we will bring together digital preservation
practitioners, collection curators and technical experts to automate
quality assurance of our digital collections.

Preservation or quality issues can occur in our digital content from
many sources:

*   When we create the content via digitisation (eg. missing pages,
duplicate pages, poor focus/contrast)
*   When the collection is stored (eg. bit rot)
*   When the collection is processed or moved from store to store
(eg. when processes run out of memory or disk space)
*   When technology changes (eg. when our standards and file formats
become obsolete)

Manually checking material for these kinds of problems is laborious,
challenging and, most critically, expensive. Checking samples of
material reduces the cost, but can let through problematic quality
issues. Automated tools that can check every digital item in a precise
way should allow us to reduce our costs and increase the overall quality
of our digital collections.

The AQuA events will provide the opportunity to get hands on experience
of developing and applying digital preservation techniques and
technology to digital collections. Whether you're a non-technical
collection manager with content to validate, or a techie ready to get to
grips with some real life digital preservation problems, we need you!

University of Leeds, 11th - 13th April 2011: Join us for our first
Mashup retreat at the beautiful Weetwood Hall Conference Centre and
Hotel

British Library, London, 13th - 15th June 2011: Get involved in our
second AQuA Mashup in the heart of London at the UK's National Library

Inspiring locations, cross discipline collaboration, challenges and
prizes, and evening social events. Plus it's FREE!  Accommodation and
refreshments are paid for.

More info at http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/AQuA/Home

Register at http://aquamashup.eventbrite.com

Questions - by email to digi...@leeds.ac.uk

AQuA is a JISC funded collaborative project between the University of
Leeds, the University of York, the British Library and Open Planets
Foundation.

-- 
Julie Allinson 
 
Digital Library Manager
University Library &  Archives, J.B. Morrell Library
University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
tel: ++44 (0) 1904 324083 skype: j.allinson
 
web: http://dlib.york.ac.uk/
blog: http://yorkdl.wordpress.com/
projects: http://www.york.ac.uk/digitallibrary/
(JISC YODL-ING, OpenART, LIFE-SHARE, AQuA, ESRC IRIS, AHRC Court,
Country, City)
calendar: http://tinyurl.com/jal-cal
 
disclaimer: http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm
--

[dcc-associates] RIN Surveys for UK research students and supervisors

[Joy Davidson]

RIN Information Handling Surveys

Two new RIN surveys are open for contribution. The first aims to investigate 
the experiences of supervisors with respect to their research students' (PhD, 
DPhil etc) knowledge and skills in information handling. 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/rin-supervisor-survey 

The second looks at the experiences of UK research students (PhD, DPhil, etc 
but not Masters-level students) with respect to a particular aspect of 
research: the information handling skills and knowledge required in their 
subject.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/rin-student-survey

The surveys should take 15-25 minutes to complete. And participants will have 
the opportunity to enter a prize draw for a £100 Amazon voucher. 

Best regards,
Joy

Joy Davidson
DCC Associate Director
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
George Service House, 11 University Gardens,
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QJ
Scotland
Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592
Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
http://www.dcc.ac.uk

[dcc-associates] FW: Researchers want support storing research data

[Joy Davidson]

Of possible interest to list members. 

 



From: Russell, Keith [mailto:russ...@surf.nl] 
Sent: 08 March 2011 13:22
To: Kuil, van der Annemiek
Subject: Researchers want support storing research data

 

Researchers want support storing research data

Researchers express a clear need for help in storing the research data
they use daily. They do find it very important to be in control of what
happens to their data. Researchers wish to control who has access to the
data and under which conditions. 

These findings came from a review of various literature commissioned by
SURFfoundation. The study What researchers want
  shows that researchers regard preservation as a next step, outside
their immediate scope of interest. Storage and preservation are distinct
issues for researchers. What researchers want
  collates the requirements of researchers with regard to
storage of and access to research data. 
The research is based on fifteen recent sources, covering the
Netherlands, the UK, USA, Australia and Europe.

Requirements for support
Researchers can benefit from support services in managing their research
data, although these services must meet a number of requirements.
Between various scientific disciplines there are major differences in
the way they conduct their research. However they do share requirements
when we look at storage of and access to research data. The listed
requirements can be be found in the management summary
  of the report.

Management of research data
The identified requirements will be be taken further in a new
SURFfoundation project, CARDS

(Controlled Access to Research Data, Stored securely).  In this project
researchers at five universities in the Netherlands will receive support
for the effective management of their research data. The findings will
also be available to other universities early 2012.

Further information

* The study is available at: 
http://www.surffoundation.nl/en/publicaties/Pages/Whatresearcherswant.as
px

* An overview of studies undertaken in the SURFshare programme
on research data can be found at: 
http://www.surffoundation.nl/en/themas/openonderzoek/permanentaccesstoda
ta/Pages/default.aspx

About SURFshare 
The aim of the SURFshare programme
  is to improve access to cutting-edge research results by means of the
latest ICT. That is possible, because ICT not only speeds up standard
communication processes, but also changes the nature of the research
cycle itself. The growing number of options for knowledge-sharing and
dissemination mean that traditional publications, tools (for example
models, algorithms and visualisations) and research data are
increasingly interwoven. 

SURFfoundation's intention with the SURFshare programme is to create a
common infrastructure that will facilitate access to research
information and make it possible for researchers to share scientific and
scholarly information.

 

This newsitem can also be found on the SURFfoundation website
 

 

Kind regards,

Keith Russell

| Community Manager SURFshare / Knowledge Exchange | SURFfoundation |
Graadt van Roggenweg 340 | Postbus 2290 | 3500 GG Utrecht | T +31 (0)30
234 66 99 | F +31 (0)30 233 29 60 | W www.surf.nl 
|E russ...@surf.nl | 

SURFfoundation, SURFnet en SURFdiensten maken deel uit van SURF, de
samenwerkingsorganisatie voor ICT in het hoger onderwijs en onderzoek.





 

<>

[dcc-associates] (Free) AQuA workshop - solving digital content issues and automating the solutions

[Joy Davidson]

***Apologies for cross-posting***

Do you have large amounts of digital content to look after?

How well do you know your digital content?
Is your file what it says it is?
Do your users do your QA for you?
Intimidated by digital preservation tools?

These and many more questions will be explored and hopefully answered by
the Automating Quality Assurance Project (AQuA) project events in April
and June 2011. Are you a coder, technical expert, collection curator,
digital preservation practitioner or a little of each? Then come along
and participate in the AQuA events, to be held 11-13 April 2011 and
13-15 June 2011, where we will bring together digital preservation
practitioners, collection curators and technical experts to automate
quality assurance of our digital collections.

Preservation or quality issues can occur in our digital content from
many sources:

*   When we create the content via digitisation (e.g. missing pages,
duplicate pages, poor focus/contrast)
*   When the collection is stored (e.g. bit rot)
*   When the collection is processed or moved from store to store
(e.g. when processes run out of memory or disk space)
*   When technology changes (e.g. when our standards and file
formats become obsolete)

Manually checking material for these kinds of problems is laborious,
challenging and, most critically, expensive. Checking samples of
material reduces the cost, but can let through problematic quality
issues. Automated tools that can check every digital item in a precise
way should allow us to reduce our costs and increase the overall quality
of our digital collections.

The AQuA events will provide the opportunity to get hands on experience
of developing and applying digital preservation techniques and
technology to digital collections. Whether you're a non-technical
collection manager with content to validate, or a techie ready to get to
grips with some real life digital preservation problems, we need you!

University of Leeds, 11th - 13th April 2011: Join us for our first
Mashup retreat at the beautiful Weetwood Hall Conference Centre and
Hotel

British Library, London, 13th - 15th June 2011: Get involved in our
second AQuA Mashup in the heart of London at the UK's National Library

Inspiring locations, cross discipline collaboration, challenges and
prizes, and evening social events. Plus it's FREE!  Accommodation and
refreshments are paid for.

More info at http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/AQuA/Home, or see the
flyer at
http://wiki.opf-labs.org/download/attachments/1114399/AQuA_poster_v1.pdf


Register at http://aquamashup.eventbrite.com

Questions - by email to digi...@leeds.ac.uk

AQuA is a JISC funded collaborative project between the University of
Leeds, the University of York, the British Library and Open Planets
Foundation.

 

 

Bo Middleton

Head of E-Strategy and Development

Edward Boyle Library

University of Leeds

Project Director for JISC AQuA project
http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/AQuA/Home

 

 

 

 

[dcc-associates] FW: Ojax++ VRE

[Joy Davidson]

Of possible interest to list members. 

 



From: Repositories discussion list
[mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Judith Wusteman
Sent: 07 March 2011 13:34
To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: Ojax++ VRE

 

A new Virtual Research Environment (VRE) tool called Ojax++ was recently
launched to the global e-research community that allows scholars to get
the most from popular web-based applications. Funded by Science
Foundation Ireland, under the direction of Dr Judith Wusteman at the UCD
School of Information and Library Studies, Ojax++ enables researchers to
use popular online tools, such as GoogleDocs, Delicious, blogging tools
and Twitter, as well more research-specific Web 2.0 tools. Ojax++ then
aggregates the data from those applications so that, regardless of which
web applications researchers use to conduct their research, they can
organise their work and collaborate on that work in one place, using
Ojax++.  The tool has been made freely available to the e-research
community.  Further details can be found at the OJAX++ project website
at www.ucd.ie/ojax  

-- 
Dr Judith Wusteman
UCD School of Information and Library Studies
University College Dublin
Belfield
Dublin 4
Ireland
Tel: +353 1 716 7612
Fax: +353 1 716 1161
URL: http://www.ucd.ie/wusteman 

[dcc-associates] FW: Cranfield & EU-FP7 PhD studentship - Cost modelling for long term digital preservation

[Joy Davidson]

May be of interest to the list...

 



From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On 
Behalf Of Shehab, Essam
Sent: 04 March 2011 08:55
To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: Cranfield & EU-FP7 PhD studentship - Cost modelling for long term 
digital preservation

 

PhD studentship - Cost modelling for long term digital preservation

 

Academic Supervisors: Dr Essam Shehab 
  and Dr Paul 
Baguley  

Closing Date: 31 March 2011 

 

Supported by EU-FP7 funding a studentship of up to £15,000 p.a. for up to three 
years plus fees* is available

 

Cranfield University, as part of a European consortium which includes members 
IBM, Philips Electronics, Fraunhofer, JRC and CSISP,  has an exciting research 
project entitled 'Enabling knowledge Sustainability, Usability and Recovery for 
Economic value' (ENSURE).   

 

Focusing on cost modelling for digital preservation this ENSURE project aims to 
address the increasing difficulty experienced with ensuring long-term usability 
of commercially relevant data produced or controlled by organisations. It will 
draw on motivation from use cases in health care, finance and clinical trials 
to deliver state-of-the-art digital preservation.

 

The PhD project aims to develop a cost model which considers the whole life 
cycle of digital preservation. The successful applicant will research how to 
adapt existing cost modelling methods and techniques to the entire life cycle 
of digital preservation and aim to identify the cost drivers, work and cost 
breakdown structures associated with digital data reservation to develop the 
cost models. They will develop a framework to incorporate risk and uncertainty 
factors into cost estimation and define an uncertainty identification and 
prioritisation process to enhance efficiency in capturing uncertainty of long 
term data preservation.

 

Start date: ASAP

 

Entry requirements

Applicants should have a First or Second Class UK Honours degree (or 
equivalent) or MSc in a relevant discipline such as software engineering, 
information technology, or other relevant engineering disciplines. In addition, 
some experience in cost engineering and data preservation would be beneficial. 
The researcher will require technical report writing, organisation, analytical, 
communication (oral and written), technical paper and article writing, and 
client handling skills.

 

Funding

* Supported by EU-FP7 grant, this studentship will cover the tuition fees at 
the UK/EU rate only. Non UK/EU students will have to pay the remainder of their 
tuition fees (£11,050) before commencing their studies. Applicants are also 
eligible for a bursary of up to £15,000 p.a. for up to three years dependent 
upon qualifications and experience.

 

How to apply

Please complete the application form at: 
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/students/applications/apply_pgresearch.pdf 
  

Alternatively you can request that we post one to you. For more information 
please contact:

School of Applied Sciences
T: 44 (0)1234 754086
E: appliedscien...@cranfield.ac.uk  

W: www.cranfield.ac.uk/sas/studentships?id=jobs 
 

 

 

Best Wishes, 

Essam

=

Dr. Essam M. Shehab, MIET, MACostE, FHEA 

Senior Lecturer in Decision Engineering

 

Cranfield University, Building 50, Cranfield, Bedford MK43 0AL, UK

W: +44 (0) 1234 750 111 Ext 5241

http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/sas/aboutus/staff/shehabe.jsp 
 

 

[dcc-associates] Conference Announcement: Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation & BRTF/ESDI Roundtable

[Joy Davidson]

***Please excuse cross-posting***

Conference Announcement:
Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation

Date: May 23-25, 2011
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
Conference Website: http://www.Educopia.org/events/ANADP

Ensuring long-term access to digital resources is a task few institutions or 
even countries can take on by themselves. Cooperation is key to successful 
digital preservation: cooperation between individual institutions, sectors, and 
countries. 

For this reason we are pleased to announce the "Aligning National Approaches to 
Digital Preservation" conference. While there are many annual events that 
support and encourage information exchange across national boundaries, no event 
has yet attempted to set a strategic direction across the range of topics 
represented here: Organizational, Technical, Legal, Standards, Economic, and 
Education alignment. This conference intends to provide a participatory forum 
for information exchange and focused work on these topics for the purpose of 
building international collaborations to support the preservation of our 
collective digital memory. 

The outcomes for the event will be a strategic alignment of national approaches 
to enable new forms of international cooperation and an edited volume that 
documents an action plan for building collaboration among interested digital 
preservation initiatives.


Keynotes and Panel Chairs include:

*   Laura Campbell - (U.S. Library of Congress)
*   Gunnar Sahlin - (National Library of Sweden)
*   Inge Angevaare - (Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation)
*   Joy Davidson - (HATII, University of Glasgow)
*   Maurizio Lunghi - (Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale)
*   Adrienne Muir - (Loughborough University)
*   Raivo Ruusalepp - (Tallinn University)
*   Michael Seadle - (Berlin School of Library and Information Science, 
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Confirmed Panel Speakers include:

*   Dwayne Buttler - (University of Louisville)
*   Sheila Corrall - (University of Sheffield)
*   George Coulbourne - (U.S. Library of Congress) 
*   David Giaretta - (Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of 
Science)
*   Stéphane Goldstein - (Research Information Network - RIN)
*   Neil Grindley - (Joint Information Systems Committee - JISC)
*   Martin Halbert - (University of North Texas, Educopia Institute, 
MetaArchive)
*   Nancy McGovern - (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social 
Research - ICPSR)
*   Wilma Mossink - (SURFfoundation)
*   Andreas Rauber - (Technical University of Vienna)
*   Mihkel Reial - (National Library of Estonia)
*   Adam Rusbridge - (HATII, University of Glasgow)
*   Sabine Schrimpf (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek/nestor) 
*   Bohdana Stoklasova - (National Library of Czech Republic, Prague)
*   Aaron Trehub - (Auburn University, ADPNet)
*   Matthew Woollard - (UK Data Archive) 

Current Sponsors include:

*   U.S. Library of Congress
*   University of North Texas Libraries
*   EQUELLA
*   ProQuest
*   Auburn University Libraries
*   Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR)
*   Internet Archive
*   DuraSpace/DuraCloud
*   Guardtime

Please visit http://www.Educopia.org/events/ANADP to register or to get more 
information on participating in or sponsoring this conference.

Immediately following the conference, on May 26th, the ESDI Roundtable Workshop 
(http://www.Educopia.org/events/ANADP/ESDI_Roundtable) will be held to provide 
an international forum to discuss the implications of the Blue Ribbon Task 
Force conclusions and recommendations, focus on new work in this area, and hear 
from a range of participants about the various national actions that are being 
taken to ensure an economically sustainable digital future. Places at this 
meeting are very limited and some will be filled by targeted invitation. Please 
contact Neil Grindley at JISC (n.grind...@jisc.ac.uk) to inquire about 
participation.


Joy Davidson

DCC Associate Director

Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)

George Service House, 11 University Gardens,

University of Glasgow

Glasgow G12 8QJ

Scotland

Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592

Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788

http://www.dcc.ac.uk

 

[dcc-associates] FW: [DIGLIB] Blog on Digital Collaboration between librarians, archivists, recordkeepers, curators, computer scientists...

[Joy Davidson]

The following blog may be of interest to the list members. 

 

 



From: Sue Myburgh [mailto:sue.mybu...@unisa.edu.au] 
Sent: 23 February 2011 01:35
To: Sue Myburgh
Subject: [DIGLIB] Blog on Digital Collaboration between librarians,
archivists, recordkeepers, curators, computer scientists...

 

APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS

 

Dear Colleagues

I have recently launched a blog on digital collaboration, particularly
focussing on how multidisciplinary work can be made possible through
increased collaboration and cooperation between the various
disciplinary/professional groups that are involved in the creation of
digital libraries, repositories and digitised cultural institutions.
One of the first hurdles to be overcome is to ensure that we all share
the same understandings of what the various groups mean when they use
certain terms: we need to speak the same language, or at the very least,
'translate' from one disciplinary 'language game' (as Wittgenstein might
have put it) to another.

I would like to invite you all to have a look, and to comment as you see
fit.  If you would like to write a post, please contact me at this
address.

The more international the readership - and commentators! - are, the
better, so I would much appreciate it if you could forward this email to
interested parties in your language group.  There are translation
facilities available at the blog, and its address is:
digitalcollaboration.wordpress.com
   .

 

All the best

Sue

 

Dr Susan Myburgh

School of Communication, International Studies and Languages

University of South Australia

St Bernard's Road

Magill SA 5076

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E: sue.mybu...@unisa.edu.au  

 

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