#idcc13 Archive

  • IDCC13 and the Research Data Alliance

    IDCC13 and the Research Data Alliance

    I'm currently on my way to Gothenburg for the first plenary meeting of the Research Data Alliance, or RDA as I'll refer to it from here on. It seems an appropriate point to fulfil a promise I made a month ago in my overview of IDCC13. I promise...

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  • IDCC13: on reflection

    IDCC13: on reflection

    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • IDCC13 Preview: Hans Pfeiffenberger

    IDCC13 Preview: Hans Pfeiffenberger

    The 8th International Digital Curation Conference is just around the corner and we are anticipating great discussions about data science when our international audience gather in Amsterdam in January 2013. In the eighth of our series of preview posts, ...

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