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  • Registration open for IDCC 2013

    Registration open for IDCC 2013

    Registration is now open for the 8th International Digital Curation Conference, to be held on 14–16 January 2013 in Amsterdam. This conference is organised annually by the UK Digital Curation Centre and its partners as a platform for the latest theory and practice in the...

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  • BioMed Central proposes CC0 for published data

    BioMed Central proposes CC0 for published data

    BioMed Central Research Notes has published, in provisional form, a White Paper on the licensing of open access research papers and data. It proposes a model whereby authors publishing in an open access journal agree to license the text of their paper ...

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  • Working with DataCite

    Working with DataCite

    What is DataCite? “You could say that DataCite is to data sets what Cross Ref is to publications” explained DataCite Technical Lead, Ed Zukowski. It’s not a perfect analogy but does give an idea of DataCite’s primary focus: it i...

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  • Exploiting research data for teaching

    Exploiting research data for teaching

    Cope, J. and Pink, C., 2012. Exploiting research data for teaching. At: ALT-C 2012, 2012-09-10 - 2012-09-12, Manchester.

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  • Exploiting research data for teaching

    Exploiting research data for teaching

    Cathy Pink and Jez Cope of the University of Bath’s Research360 Project will be running a workshop at the Association for Learning Technologies’ 19th international conference, ALT-C 2012, on 11 September in Manchester. In the workshop, entitled ‘Exploiting research data for teaching’, Jez and Cathy...

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  • Sakai Development: Post Six

    Sakai Development: Post Six

    In which I finally am able to import Sakai into the eclipse IDE, the designated development environment. And at the end I am left wondering whether all the work has been worth it – I might have been better off developing with a text editor, old school style. The full post is on my personal blog [...]

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  • Sakai Development: Post Five

    Sakai Development: Post Five

    In which I add LDAP authentication to the test Sakai installation, and sort out a bizarre issue with the Resources tool: a complete lack of the hooks and buttons needed to add content. The full post is on my personal blog here.

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  • Data Citation tutorial at iPres 2012

    Data Citation tutorial at iPres 2012

    Monica Duke and Alex Ball will be presenting a tutorial on data citation at iPres 2012 in Toronto, Canada. The tutorial will be held on the 2nd October and registrations are  open (early bird registration closes on 1st September).

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  • 10 recommendations to get started with research data management

    10 recommendations to get started with research data management

    Ten recommendations for libraries to get started with research data management, Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard et al, (July, 2012) This is a breath of fresh air. An EU report that does exactly what it says on the tin - in only 3 pages! The LIBER e-Science...

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  • Librarians, data management and listening dogs

    Librarians, data management and listening dogs

    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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