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  • EU Riding the wave report

    EU Riding the wave report

    The last in my trio of belated blog posts is based on the report: Riding the wave – How Europe can gain from the rising tide of scientific data – Final report of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data, published in  October 2010. ...

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  • Report on data sharing

    Report on data sharing

    The second of the three posts that I’m releasing on the principle of ‘better late than never’ was a pointer to Christine Borgman’s  report: Research Data: Who Will Share What, with Whom, When, and Why?“ (2010), which w...

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  • Motivating the release of government data

    Motivating the release of government data

    In the process of tying up loose ends for the SageCite project, I’ve unearthed three draft blog postings, all of which were related to other blog posts or publications which comment on data sharing, re-use or citation – three key themes for...

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  • REDm-MED

    REDm-MED

    The REDm-MED (Research Data Management for Mechanical Engineering Departments) Project developed a research data management regime for the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath. This included data management plan templates and a software tool, RAIDmap, for producing Research Activity Information Development diagrams....

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  • IMPACT Final Conference – Blog-index

    IMPACT Final Conference – Blog-index

    The whole conference was blogged and photographed with presentations uploaded to Slideshare and videos to Vimeo. These are also embedded within the blogs on this site. This post contains direct links to all posts made at the Final Conference.  Please do feel free to add comments or thoughts below the posts. Monday 24 October 2011 […]

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  • IMPACT Final Conference – Research Parallel Sessions Brief Summary

    IMPACT Final Conference – Research Parallel Sessions Brief Summary

    Parallel Session 1: Research was dedicated to presentations and discussions around the state of the art research tools for document analysis developed via the IMPACT Project. As you might guess from the slides below, the information packed into these presentations could fill a whole new two-day conference!  But for now, a brief summary will have to suffice and […]

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  • IMPACT Final Conference – Language Parallel Session

    IMPACT Final Conference – Language Parallel Session

    The language parallel session consisted of a series of presentations and demonstrations of the IMPACT language tools and hosted by Katrien Depuydt (INL). Named Entity Work in IMPACT: Frank Landsbergen Frank began by defining named entities (NE). They are a word or string referring to a proper location, person or organisation (or date, time, etc). […]

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  • IMPACT Final Conference – Digitisation Tips Parallel Session

    IMPACT Final Conference – Digitisation Tips Parallel Session

    Aly Conteh (BL) hosted the parallel Q&A session on Digitisation tips. Pannel members included Astrid Verheusen (Manager of the Digital Library Programme and Head of the Innovative Projects Department, KB National Library of the Netherlands), Geneviève Cron (OCR expert, Bibliothèque nationale de France), Christa Müller (Director Digital Services Department, Austrian National Library), Majlis Bremer-Laamanen (Director […]

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  • Free Research DM Workshop, Cambridge, 9-11 Nov

    Free Research DM Workshop, Cambridge, 9-11 Nov

    Unfortunately the DCC Brighton Roadshow was cancelled but the next roashow isn’t far off and places are still available. To give some background…. The UK Digital Curation Centre is running a series of free inter-linked regional workshops aimed at supporting institutional research data management planning and training. The DCC Roadshows are designed to allow every [...]

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  • Research 360

    Research360

    The Research360 Project is developing a research data management infrastructure at the University of Bath that will address the long-tail of high quality small science characterised by applied research and academia-industry partnerships. The infrastructure is being piloted within the Faculties of Science and Engineering &...

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