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The Requirements Report for the I2S2 project, together with the final Lifecycle Model and a supplementary report are now available from the project website.

A second Planets White Paper summarising the findings of interviews with 18 of the world's leading IT companies is available now to download from the Planets web-site. The work which was led by Consortium partners the Swiss Federal Archives and Tessella aimed to explore current provision of, and emerging market-place for tools and services to support long-term management of digital content. The resulting paper is a companion to the Market Survey White Paper released on 11 May 2010.

The International Journal of Digital Curation Issue 1, Volume 5 is now available.It contains of 11 peer-reviewed papers drawn from 3 different events; the 5th International Digital Curation Conference, iPres 08 and iPres 09 (International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects). There are also 4 general articles. The Chief Editor Kevin Ashley writing in the Editorial says”… there is a great deal to digest in this issue with papers on theory and practice, on the specific and the general, and we commend it to you.

Thought provoking article in THE by Adam Corner, with more debate on climategate and the implications for science of open data and transparency in the research process.

We're pleased to announce that the Paper Submission date for IDCC10 has been extended by 2 weeks. The Call will now close at 1700 BST (that's 1600 UTC, 1800 CEST, 12pm EDT, 9am PDT) on Monday 9 August 2010.

Submissions can be in the form of an abstract (maximum of 1000 words) for practice based papers or a full paper (maximum 12 pages) for research based papers. The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will provide limited travel awards for graduate students whose papers are accepted for the conference.

Times Higher Education discusses implications for data release, arising from a recent ruling by the Information Commissioner's Office on tree-ring data, and the Russell Report on the "Climategate" emails affair.

Times Higher Education discusses implications for data release, arising from a recent ruling by the Information Commissioner's Office on tree-ring data, and the Russell Report on the "Climategate" emails affair.

Read about the LSE's use of DRAMBORA to carry out a risk assessment in conjunction with their ongoing infrastructure development programme work to make a compelling case for investment from senior managers.

Gaining business intelligence from user activity data was the topic of a JISC workshop I attended this week – and a hot topic if the activity of JISC programme managers is anything to go by. I counted five, plus a large contingent of JISC service people, and of course Deputy Chair Professor David Baker who chaired this event. 

The European project PARSE.Insight has released its final recommendations for the science data infrastructure in Europe with ten major insights into research and researcher behaviours. These reveal major differences between European countries in their methods for dealing with research data, as well as a critical analysis of researchers' attitudes towards data sharing.

After two years of research, the European project PARSE.Insight held its final symposium on 25th June 2010 to present results and recommendations for the science data infrastructure in Europe.

 

 A set of innovative techniques that are collectively termed ‘web 2.0’ have enabled researchers to become producers as well as consumers of information.  This report is based on a study commissioned by the Research Information Network to investigate whether such aspirations are being realised. 

This study by the Manchester e-Research Centre and Edinburgh's Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation indicates that a majority of researchers are making at least occasional use of one or more web 2.0 tools or services for purposes related to their research:

JISC press release (8 July 2010) gives "new advice for universities" in light of the Russell report, which reviewed allegations arising from the series of hacked emails from the Climatic Research Unit at University of East Anglia. The new advice is also prompted by the recent FOI ruling on Queen's University Belfast's dispute around tree ring data.

JISC press release (8 July 2010) gives "new advice for universities" in light of the Russell report, which reviewed allegations arising from the series of hacked emails from the Climatic Research Unit at University of East Anglia. The new advice is also prompted by the recent FOI ruling on Queen's University Belfast's dispute around tree ring data.

The JISC advice reads as follows:

The Requirements Report for the I2S2 project, together with the final Lifecycle Model and a supplementary report are now available from the project website.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and DCC are delighted to be collaborating on the joint publication of 'What's New'.  

The JISC-funded Incremental project has released its scoping study into researchers' data management needs at the Universities of Cambridge and Glasgow.

A blog post summarises our findings and implementation plans.

We welcome any feedback you have.

The JISC-funded Incremental project has released its scoping study into researchers' data management needs at the Universities of Cambridge and Glasgow.

A blog post summarises our findings and implementation plans.

We welcome any feedback you have.

The new Government's Public Sector Transparency Board met last week for the first time and promptly published a draft set of Public Data Principles on the data.gov.uk team blog. So what does this mean for research data and HEI's?

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I’ve been hastily writing up travel reports to submit expenses before year end, and in reviewing the data management events I’ve been to in the last few months, a few recurrent questions emerge...

I’ve been hastily writing up travel reports to submit expenses before year end, and in reviewing the data management events I’ve been to in the last few months, a few recurrent questions emerge...

The Research Information Network just published a new guide which describes the nature, roles and responsibilities of the different Government bodies involved in research policy and funding, and the relationships between them.

It comes with a useful chart showing the links between the key organisations involved.

Launching the guide, RIN say: "Government in the UK involves a complex array of bodies with responsibilities for developing and implementing policies. This applies as much to policies and funding for research and the research environment as to other areas in which Government is a key player.

Een brede vertegenwoordiging uit de archiefsector heeft op 15 juni 2010 in Kerkrade een gezamenlijk voorstel ondertekend voor de totstandkoming van gemeenschappelijke e-Depotvoorzieningen en services voor de hele archiefsector: landelijk, provinciaal en lokaal (zie persbericht met tekst van het voorstel en het rapport waarop het voorstel is gebaseerd). Uit het persbericht: De overheid leunt steeds zwaarder op digitale informatie. Voor het goed functioneren en de betrouwbaarheid van de overheid is het noodzakelijk dat digitale overheidsinformatie langdurig leesbaar, vindbaar en interpreteerbaar blijft. Het Nationaal Archief, Gemeentearchief Rotterdam en Stadsarchief Amsterdam hebben daarom ieder zelf een e-Depot ontwikkeld.

New Web Archiving technology for dealing with streaming video has been developed by LiWA, a European project led by the University of Hannover.

The LiWA project has released open-source components on Google code at http://code.google.com/p/liwa-technologies. LiWA say that "This is still an experimental version of the software, therefore your feedback and comments will be greatly appreciated, helping us to improve the documentation and the usability of the module."