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Research Data Management for Mechanical Engineering Departments

Posted on 6 December 2011 by Alex Ball | Posters
Ball, A., Darlington, M., Thangarajah, U., McMahon, C. and Lyon, E., 2011. Research Data Management for Mechanical Engineering Departments. At: 7th International Digital Curation Conference, 2011-12-05 - 2011-12-07, Marriott Royal Hotel, Bristol.
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REsearch Data management for Mechanical Engineering Departments (REDm-MED)

Posted on 2 December 2011 by Mansur Darlington | Papers and Talks
Darlington, M., Ball, A., Thangarajah, U., McMahon, C. and Lyon, E., 2011. REsearch Data management for Mechanical Engineering Departments (REDm-MED). At: JISC Managing Research Data Launch Meeting, 2011-12-01 - 2011-12-02, NCL Conference Centre, Nottingham.
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Research Data Management with the Digital Curation Centre

Posted on 30 November 2011 by Alex Ball | Papers and Talks
Ball, A., Donnelly, M. and Jones, S., 2011. Research Data Management with the Digital Curation Centre. At: 22nd Machine Evaluation Workshop, 2011-11-29 - 2011-11-30, Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool.
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BSB/ÖNB Demo Day – Videos online!

Posted on 21 November 2011 by The IMPACT project | From Impact
Es hat dann doch etwas länger gedauert, aber jetzt sind alle Vorträge unserer Doppel-Veranstaltung “Historische Dokumente auf dem Weg zum digitalen Volltext” (11. – 12. Oktober 2011) und in die entsprechenden Blog-Artikel eingebunden. Wie gehabt finden sich alle Informationen zum ersten Tag, dem “IMPACT Demo Day”, hier auf dem IMPACT-Blog, während Sie sich alles Wissenswerte […]
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IMPACT/myGrid Hackathon – Taverna Roadmap

Posted on 14 November 2011 by The IMPACT project | From Impact
In the afternoon, after everyone had worked through the 3 group tasks in the practical session: ‘Workflow Development in Digitisation’, we returned to hear from the Taverna Manager – Shoaib Sufi. Shoib gave an interesting talk about where he sees Taverna going in the next few years and the further development of Taverna 3, including […]
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IMPACT/myGrid Taverna Hackathon – Taverna Server as a Portal

Posted on 14 November 2011 by The IMPACT project | From Impact
Clemens Neudecker leads a session on using Taverna Server as a portal, using IMPACT workflows to demonstrate the functionality. This was followed by Rob Haines from myGrid who gave more examples of Taverna Server Interfaces.
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The IMPACT Framework – From Tools to Workflows

Posted on 14 November 2011 by impacteib | From Impact
This practical session started with the attendees introducing themselves and splitting up into 3 groups, so that each could work on a different set of tasks based on a Case Study: Case Study: A collection holder wants to reduce storage costs for his collections that are currently available as TIFF master files. She/he heard that […]
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IMPACT/myGrid Taverna Hackathon

Posted on 14 November 2011 by impacteib | From Impact
Full details of this workshop are available through the workshop wiki at: http://impact-mygrid-taverna-hackathon.wikispaces.com/Background+Materials The day started with an introduction to IMPACT from Clemens Neudecker: and then an introduction to Taverna from Katy Wolstencroft:
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Keeping the REDm-MED Project on Track

Posted on 11 November 2011 by Mansur Darlington | From REDm-MED
Our experiences observing the varied success of introducing knowledge and information management tools and methods in industry brought us to the following conclusion if success is to be hoped for: ‘Interventions should result in a zero net resource requirement increase.’ It does not mean we think that no money or effort should be spent on performing, for [...]
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Open Research Reports

Posted on 9 November 2011 by Monica Duke | From Patients Participate
I’ve just heard about the Open Research Reports initiative, an idea to make disease research as openly accessible as possible to the people that really need it. Open Research Reports aim to pull together the corpus of open access literature on a ...
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