conference Archive

  • IDCC13: on reflection

    IDCC13: on reflection

    Posted on 5 February 2013 by kevin.ashley | From DCC
    IDCC13 and its associated workshops took place in Amsterdam a few weeks ago - the first time we've run the International Digital Curation Conference in continental Europe. The increased attendance and enthusiastic involvement of many new colleagues...

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  • 8th International Digital Curation Conference 2013

    8th International Digital Curation Conference 2013

    Posted on 22 January 2013 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    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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  • Librarians, data management and listening dogs

    Librarians, data management and listening dogs

    Posted on 23 August 2012 by sarah.jones | From DCC
    DCC staff were at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress last week. The conference was vast, welcoming over 4,200 librarians to Helsinki and addressing all manner of library concerns. The programme included a number of sessions relevant to da...

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  • Is the Future Perfect?

    Is the Future Perfect?

    Posted on 16 April 2012 by sarah.jones | From DCC
    The overriding message from the Future Perfect conference was that the future is not perfect!  There are lots of digital preservation challenges that we're still grapling with, but on a more optimistic note, we *are* making headway. Read more

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  • VALA2012: libraries and technology down under

    VALA2012: libraries and technology down under

    Posted on 9 February 2012 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    Liz Lyon gave a keynote speech on Wednesday 8 February 2012, entitled “The Informatics Transform: Re-engineering Libraries for the Data Decade“, at the VALA2012 conference in Melbourne, Australia. The talk focused on the transformations required for libraries to keep up with digital trends, and drew on Liz’s own experience for exemplars, including the University of [...]

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  • DCC Roadshow in Cardiff

    DCC Roadshow in Cardiff

    Posted on 15 December 2011 by Marieke Guy | From JISC BGDP
    Snow, sleet, hailstones, rain and sunshine! The Cardiff weather couldn’t make up its mind, but the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) roadshow carried on regardless. Although I have attended various days of the travelling roadshow (Bath and Cambridge) I’ve never actually managed to catch a day one. The opening day is an opportunity to hear an [...]

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  • IMPACT Final Conference – Research Parallel Sessions Brief Summary

    IMPACT Final Conference – Research Parallel Sessions Brief Summary

    Posted on 25 October 2011 by Nora Daly | From Impact
    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

    Posted on 25 October 2011 by Marieke Guy | From Impact
    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

    Posted on 25 October 2011 by Greta | From Impact
    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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