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IDCC11: Advancing research and technology to safeguard our digital future

Blogs — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:30:56 +0000

The closing keynote at the #idcc11 was presented by Natasa Milic-Frayling from Microsoft Research Cambridge (MSRC), who spoke about advancing research and technology to safeguard our digital future.

IDCC11: Open data driving scholarly communications in 2020

Blogs — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:43:10 +0000

Professor Philip E Bourne from the Department of Pharmacology at University of California San Diego and Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Computational Biology gave a remote presentation to the conference via Skype to outline what he sees as the future for data publishing.

Tools for data management planning

sarah.jones — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:11:35 +0000

The DCC ran a workshop at IDCC which brought together the teams that have developed the UK and US data management planning tools: DMP Online and DMP Tool. The workshop initially looked at the data policies in each country that define requirements for data management and sharing plans. After coffee we had a demo of each of the tools and discussed future development plans. Image: Creative Commons licenced by CC-BY Henry Swanson 420

IDCC11 Session 2B: preservation

Blogs — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:42:32 +0000

Parellel Session 2B on preservation seemed to be only loosely connected to preservation, but all the institutions involved have taken open approaches to archiving.

IDCC11 Session A1: data management and planning

Blogs — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:05:47 +0000

Parallel Session A1 on data management and planning pulled together presentations on creation of plans, the skills needed to create them and co-ordination of approaches.

IDCC11 Session 3B: environmental data

kerry.miller — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:57:06 +0000

The presentations in this session looked at different aspects of data creation, storage, and sharing in environmental research. A significant theme was the need to encourage data sharing by researchers by providing them with suitable rewards.