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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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  • IDCC13: Panel on confidentiality and open access to research data

    IDCC13: Panel on confidentiality and open access to research data

    In his talk at IDCC, Ewan Birney, Associate Director of the EMBL European Informatics Institute, described how the field of genomics has paved the path to large-scale data sharing. The field now publicly confronts the issues arising from breaches to pr...

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  • RDM within the University of St Andrews IT support

    RDM within the University of St Andrews IT support

    During the JISCMRD workshop in October 2012, I gave a presentation on the outcomes of the DCC institutional engagement project at the University of St Andrews and how that project has influenced the development of research data management (RDM) support...

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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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  • 8th International Digital Curation Conference 2013

    8th International Digital Curation Conference 2013

    From Monday 14 to Wednesday 16 January 2013, Cathy and I attended the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC13) in Amsterdam, Netherlands. On Monday morning, we ran a workshop, jointly with Hannah Lloyd-Jones from Open Exeter, entitled “Designing Data Management Training Resources: Tools for the provision of interactive research data management workshops“. This offered participants the [...]

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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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