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  • IDCC13 Data Publication: generating trust around data sharing

    IDCC13 Data Publication: generating trust around data sharing

    Publishing data is hardly a new concept, for example the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data is in its 42nd volume. But reference datasets are of course an exception to the rule; maps of the known disciplinary terrain rather than the stuff ...

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  • IDCC13: Cloud Services

    IDCC13: Cloud Services

    Immediately before lunch on Wednesday Paul Walk of UKOLN chaired a session titled Cloud Services, in which Dirk von Suchodoletz of the University of Freiburg and David S. H. Rosenthal of the LOCKSS Program presented their papers.read more

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  • IDCC13: The Power of Intelligence

    IDCC13: The Power of Intelligence

    The second of the 3 themes at this year’s IDCC was Intelligence, explored in a two-talk session chaired by Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). While intelligence and innovation are beginning to dri...

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  • IDCC13: What’s in a name? The ‘data scientist’ symposium

    IDCC13: What’s in a name? The ‘data scientist’ symposium

    The IDCC symposium this year was on ‘What is a data scientist?’ After some shuffling of chairs, Liz Lyon opened proceedings with a quick show of hands on who thought they were a data engineer, data analyst, data librarian, data steward, dat...

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  • IDCC13: ELIXIR – a bioinformatics infrastructure

    IDCC13: ELIXIR – a bioinformatics infrastructure

    The data used in molecular biology has undergone a massive shift in scale over the last decade. While this opens up many new opportunities, it means that the existing research infrastructure needs an overhaul. In his opening keynote presentation at IDC...

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  • IDCC13: Bringing people together via DMPs

    IDCC13: Bringing people together via DMPs

    The DMP workshop at IDCC brought together speakers from all corners of the globe to pursue the common interest of data management planning. The event was kicked off by Martin Donnelly of the DCC who co-organised it with Carly Strasser from the Californ...

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  • IDCC13: Exemplar RDM Training Exercises

    IDCC13: Exemplar RDM Training Exercises

    The 8th International Digital Curation Conference kicked off today with a number of workshops. I attended the one on Designing Data Management Training Resources facilitated by Catherine Pink and Jez Cope from the Research360 project (University of Bat...

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  • IDCC13 Preview: Hans Pfeiffenberger

    IDCC13 Preview: Hans Pfeiffenberger

    The 8th International Digital Curation Conference is just around the corner and we are anticipating great discussions about data science when our international audience gather in Amsterdam in January 2013. In the eighth of our series of preview posts, ...

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  • IDCC13 Preview: Francine Bennett

    IDCC13 Preview: Francine Bennett

    The 8th International Digital Curation Conference is just around the corner and we are anticipating great discussions about data science when our international audience gather in Amsterdam in January 2013. In the eighth of our series of preview posts, ...

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  • IDCC13 Preview: Scott Edmunds

    IDCC13 Preview: Scott Edmunds

    The 8th International Digital Curation Conference is just around the corner and we are anticipating great discussions about data science when our international audience gather in Amsterdam in January 2013. In the seventh of our series of preview posts,...

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