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  • IMPACT Final Conference – Research Parallel Sessions Brief Summary

    IMPACT Final Conference – Research Parallel Sessions Brief Summary

    Parallel Session 1: Research was dedicated to presentations and discussions around the state of the art research tools for document analysis developed via the IMPACT Project. As you might guess from the slides below, the information packed into these presentations could fill a whole new two-day conference!  But for now, a brief summary will have to suffice and […]

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  • IMPACT Final Conference – Language Parallel Session

    IMPACT Final Conference – Language Parallel Session

    The language parallel session consisted of a series of presentations and demonstrations of the IMPACT language tools and hosted by Katrien Depuydt (INL). Named Entity Work in IMPACT: Frank Landsbergen Frank began by defining named entities (NE). They are a word or string referring to a proper location, person or organisation (or date, time, etc). […]

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  • IMPACT Final Conference – Digitisation Tips Parallel Session

    IMPACT Final Conference – Digitisation Tips Parallel Session

    Aly Conteh (BL) hosted the parallel Q&A session on Digitisation tips. Pannel members included Astrid Verheusen (Manager of the Digital Library Programme and Head of the Innovative Projects Department, KB National Library of the Netherlands), Geneviève Cron (OCR expert, Bibliothèque nationale de France), Christa Müller (Director Digital Services Department, Austrian National Library), Majlis Bremer-Laamanen (Director […]

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  • Free Research DM Workshop, Cambridge, 9-11 Nov

    Free Research DM Workshop, Cambridge, 9-11 Nov

    Unfortunately the DCC Brighton Roadshow was cancelled but the next roashow isn’t far off and places are still available. To give some background…. The UK Digital Curation Centre is running a series of free inter-linked regional workshops aimed at supporting institutional research data management planning and training. The DCC Roadshows are designed to allow every [...]

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  • DCC and the Sussex Roadshow

    DCC and the Sussex Roadshow

    I’ve recently been appointed as an Institutional Support Officer for the Digital Curation Centre. In this role I will be raising awareness and building capacity for institutional research data by liaising with libraries, IT services, research support staff and others. My first step in getting myself up to speed will be attending the DCC Roadshow [...]

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  • Requirements for Data Citation: The Prequel

    Requirements for Data Citation: The Prequel

    I’ve just described the background to this post in the previous blog entry.  So without further ado: Requirement 1. The Citation needs to be able to uniquely identify the object cited. This seemingly simple requirement is about making sure that ...

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  • Requirements for Data Citation re-visited

    Requirements for Data Citation re-visited

    I have been working on a How To guide on Data Citation which is co-authored with Alex Ball and will be published shortly by the DCC.  The How-To guide is a sister publication to the Briefing Paper which was released recently.  In the process of worki...

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  • Scenarios for writing lay summaries

    Scenarios for writing lay summaries

    In preparation for the workshop, the project constructed a number of scenarios to help think through examples of how web-based, biomedical information resources, technologies and communities could support translation of emerging research findings into ...

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  • The KRDS Benefits Evaluation Toolkit

    The KRDS Benefits Evaluation Toolkit

    The SageCite project has been applying the KRDS Benefits Analysis Toolkit as a method of evaluating the benefits of data citation. We have been collaborating with the JISC-funded KRDS/I2S2 Digital Preservation Benefit Analysis Tools Project providing a...

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  • The acawiki.org project

    The acawiki.org project

    The project with the closest idea to that being investigated in Patients Participate! that we have identified so far is the acawiki.org site. It is a general site run on a wiki platform, that invites summaries of academic articles to make them more acc...

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