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  • DCC and the Sussex Roadshow

    DCC and the Sussex Roadshow

    Posted on 26 September 2011 by Marieke Guy | From JISC BGDP
    I’ve recently been appointed as an Institutional Support Officer for the Digital Curation Centre. In this role I will be raising awareness and building capacity for institutional research data by liaising with libraries, IT services, research support staff and others. My first step in getting myself up to speed will be attending the DCC Roadshow [...]

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  • Overview of scientific metadata for data publishing, citation, and curation

    Overview of scientific metadata for data publishing, citation, and curation

    Posted on 22 September 2011 by Alex Ball | Papers and Talks
    Ball, A., 2011. Overview of scientific metadata for data publishing, citation, and curation. At: Eleventh International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2011), 2011-09-21 - 2011-09-23, KB, The Hague, The Netherlands.

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  • Requirements for Data Citation: The Prequel

    Requirements for Data Citation: The Prequel

    Posted on 22 August 2011 by Monica Duke | From SageCite
    I’ve just described the background to this post in the previous blog entry.  So without further ado: Requirement 1. The Citation needs to be able to uniquely identify the object cited. This seemingly simple requirement is about making sure that ...

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  • Requirements for Data Citation re-visited

    Requirements for Data Citation re-visited

    Posted on 22 August 2011 by Monica Duke | From SageCite
    I have been working on a How To guide on Data Citation which is co-authored with Alex Ball and will be published shortly by the DCC.  The How-To guide is a sister publication to the Briefing Paper which was released recently.  In the process of worki...

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  • Scenarios for writing lay summaries

    Scenarios for writing lay summaries

    Posted on 8 August 2011 by Monica Duke | From Patients Participate
    In preparation for the workshop, the project constructed a number of scenarios to help think through examples of how web-based, biomedical information resources, technologies and communities could support translation of emerging research findings into ...

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  • The KRDS Benefits Evaluation Toolkit

    The KRDS Benefits Evaluation Toolkit

    Posted on 20 July 2011 by Monica Duke | From SageCite
    The SageCite project has been applying the KRDS Benefits Analysis Toolkit as a method of evaluating the benefits of data citation. We have been collaborating with the JISC-funded KRDS/I2S2 Digital Preservation Benefit Analysis Tools Project providing a...

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  • The acawiki.org project

    The acawiki.org project

    Posted on 8 July 2011 by Monica Duke | From Patients Participate
    The project with the closest idea to that being investigated in Patients Participate! that we have identified so far is the acawiki.org site. It is a general site run on a wiki platform, that invites summaries of academic articles to make them more acc...

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  • Workflows from Sage Bionetworks.

    Workflows from Sage Bionetworks.

    Posted on 8 July 2011 by Monica Duke | From SageCite
    The aims of the SageCite project included extending Taverna to incorporate a citation service, and collecting evidence of the types of network models, data and process used in the modelling of disease networks. Review of the literature shows that curre...

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  • Closing the Digital Curation Gap

    Closing the Digital Curation Gap

    Posted on 6 July 2011 by Marieke Guy | From JISC BGDP
    Last week on the day before the ICE Forum (28th June 2011) I attended the Closing the Digital Curation Gap Meeting. CDCG is an International Collaboration to Integrate Best Practice, Research & Development, and Training in Digital Curation. It has been running since October 2009 and was scheduled to finish in September this year but [...]

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  • Presentations from the workshop.

    Presentations from the workshop.

    Posted on 1 July 2011 by Monica Duke | From Patients Participate
    The presentations from the workshop are now available from slideshare. These are in addition to the recording of Liz Lyon opening the event. Crowdsourcing Lay Summaries: Bridging the Gap in Health Research by Liz Lyon Accessing Biomedical and Health Information by Lee-Ann Coleman .prezi-player { width: 550px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; } JISCPP on [...]

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