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  • End of I2S2 Project

    End of I2S2 Project

    The I2S2 Project was successfully completed in August 2011, consequently this blog is no longer being maintained.  For project outputs please refer to the project website at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/I2S2/. Manjula Patel

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  • Benefits Use Cases

    Benefits Use Cases

    The I2S2 Benefits Use Cases are now available on the project website: I2S2 Benefit Use Cases (PDF)

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  • Data Infrastructure Challenges, I2S2 Project Workshop, 5th May 2011, Leicester

    Data Infrastructure Challenges, I2S2 Project Workshop, 5th May 2011, Leicester

    Data Infrastructure Challenges: working across scale, disciplinary and institutional boundaries, 5th May 2011, University of Leicester The Infrastructure for Integration in Structural Sciences (I2S2) Project is pleased to announce a half-day workshop which will explore research data management challenges in a range of contexts. It will examine data integration and interoperability across different degrees of [...]

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  • Digital Preservation Benefit Analysis Tools

    Digital Preservation Benefit Analysis Tools

    We are pleased to announce the launch of a new project focussing on development of a digital preservation benefits analysis toolset. The “Digital Preservation Benefit Analysis Tools” project is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and will run from 1st February to 31 July 2011. The project  aims to test, review and promote [...]

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  • The Benefits of Research Data Management – JISC Conference 2011

    The Benefits of Research Data Management – JISC Conference 2011

    I2S2 was one of the projects from the JISC Managing Research Data Programme involved in a Parallel Session at the annual JISC Conference last week. The session, The benefits of more effective research data management in UK Universities, aimed to highlight the positive effects of improvements in research data management solutions as promoted by three of the projects [...]

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  • JISC Workshop on Software Preservation

    JISC Workshop on Software Preservation

    Yesterday I attended a workshop on software preservation. I consider this an important area since a huge amount of research data is virtually impossible to access or understand without the help of some sort of software – indeed, many of the scientific processing pipelines nowadays are completely digital in nature. The workshop began with presentations [...]

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  • Scaling Up workshop @ IDCC 2010

    Scaling Up workshop @ IDCC 2010

    We are running a workshop at IDCC 2010, Chicago, 6th December 2010, Scaling Up to Integrated Research Data Management. Everyone welcome!

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  • Data as “first class” citizens

    Data as “first class” citizens

    Last Wed (4th Aug 2010) UKOLN once again welcomed Andrew Treloar, Director of Technology for the Australian National Data Service (ANDS). Andrew was giving a presentation on the current and future work being undertaken in ANDS. ANDS is very much concerned with making data “first class”  objects analogous to papers, especially in the sense that they should [...]

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  • Requirements Report (Deliverable D1.1)

    Requirements Report (Deliverable D1.1)

    The Requirements Report for I2S2, together with the final Lifecycle Model and a supplementary report are now available from the project website. The report summarises the results of several requirements-gathering activities including immersive studies and a gap analysis. Since the project is investigating both differing scales of science (work-bench to large-scale facilities) as well as [...]

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  • I2S2 F2F Meeting, 14th June 2010

    I2S2 F2F Meeting, 14th June 2010

    The project held a meeting of all partners on Monday 14th June 2010 (at UKOLN, University of Bath) to discuss progress and plan further activities, in particular with regard to cost-benefit analyses; an integrated information model and the implementa...

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