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  • DCC Roadshow 2010 – 2011

    DCC Roadshow 2010 – 2011

    The Digital Curation Centre have carried out digital preservation training in the past (for example the Digital Curation 101 course) but they have now committed to running a series of data curation roadshows. These are likely to be very useful anyone involved in digital curation from senior managers to researchers and librarians. Institutional Challenges in [...]

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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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  • PEG-BOARD survey

    PEG-BOARD survey

    In order to help us learn about the data assets that fall into the scope of the PEG-BOARD project, we adapted examples provided by the Data Asset Framework (DAF), created in a project led by HATII at the University of … Continue reading

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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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  • I2S2 Progress Presentation

    I2S2 Progress Presentation

    A presentation focusing on the user requirements gathering process and pilot implementations in I2S2 was given at the JISC MRD Progress workshop in Manchester, 17-18th June 2010 (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/mrd/rdmevents/programmemeetingm...

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  • JISC’10 Conference

    JISC’10 Conference

    A last minute thing, I ended up at the JISC 2010 conference today in London, with Emma Tonkin and Andrew Hewson both from UKOLN to meet with Sarah Jones, Joy Davidson (both DCC) and Neil Beagrie to talk about the … Continue reading

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  • Welcome… at last!

    Welcome… at last!

    We are live… at long last! Due to the University wide review on IT support and structure, we had to put the site on hold until we got told where these things should be hosted and how. But since we … Continue reading

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