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  • IDCC11: Advancing research and technology to safeguard our digital future

    IDCC11: Advancing research and technology to safeguard our digital future

    Posted on 13 December 2011 by Blogs | From DCC
    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. Read more

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  • IDCC11 Session A3: Formats

    IDCC11 Session A3: Formats

    Posted on 13 December 2011 by angus.whyte | From DCC
    This session at IDCC 2011 might have been titled “Everything to Fear but Fear Itself”. As preservation specialists know, when it comes to file format issues just about anything that can go wrong probably will in time. The three presentation...

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  • IDCC11: Open data driving scholarly communications in 2020

    IDCC11: Open data driving scholarly communications in 2020

    Posted on 13 December 2011 by Blogs | From DCC
    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 ...

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  • Tools for data management planning

    Tools for data management planning

    Posted on 12 December 2011 by sarah.jones | From DCC
    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 fo...

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  • An arts perspective: day two and three – the sixth DCC Roadshow on data management

    An arts perspective: day two and three – the sixth DCC Roadshow on data management

    Posted on 12 December 2011 by Blogs | From DCC
    John Murtagh from the University of the Arts London presents an arts perspective on research data management. All images in this blog come from the publication, Drawing skirts: new papercuts by Charlotte Hodes. Read more

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  • IDCC11 Session 2B: preservation

    IDCC11 Session 2B: preservation

    Posted on 9 December 2011 by Blogs | From DCC
    Parellel Session 2B on preservation seemed to be only loosely connected to preservation, but all the institutions involved have taken open approaches to archiving. Read more

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  • IDCC11 Session A1: data management and planning

    IDCC11 Session A1: data management and planning

    Posted on 9 December 2011 by Blogs | From DCC
    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.   Read more

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  • IDCC11 Session 3B: environmental data

    IDCC11 Session 3B: environmental data

    Posted on 9 December 2011 by kerry.miller | From DCC
    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. Read more

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  • IDCC11 Session 2A: policy and legal

    IDCC11 Session 2A: policy and legal

    Posted on 9 December 2011 by kerry.miller | From DCC
    This session gave us four fascinating presentations covering areas as diverse as developments in funder data policies, applying the KRDS benefits analysis toolkit, FoI and its implications for research in the HE sector, and the ethics and legalities of...

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  • Citing Datasets and Linking Them to Publications

    Citing Datasets and Linking Them to Publications

    Posted on 8 December 2011 by Alex Ball | Papers and Talks
    Ball, A., 2011. Citing Datasets and Linking Them to Publications. At: On the importance of linking: Planning, provenance and citation, 2011-12-08, Marriott Royal Hotel, Bristol.

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