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Shakespeare Quarterly "Open Peer Review" Experiment

26 August, 2010 | in Blogs

Some thoughts on 'open peer review', after the New York Times reports on a Shakespeare Quarterly experiment in opening up their peer review process.

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Australian Digital Futures Institute launches "Data Bites"

23 August, 2010 | in Blogs

A new blog from the Australian Digital Futures Institute titled Data Bites offers a platform to projects funded by ANDS, the Australian National Data Service. The blog is intended for updates on these projects and has a temporary url at: http://adfi.usq.edu.au/ands-partners/ .

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IDCC10 paper selection begins

20 August, 2010 | in DCC News

Paper submissions for this year's International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC10) closed on Monday 9th August. The task of assigning reviewers is now complete and their work is beginning in earnest. We've had 45 proposals for research and practice papers this year, greater than in any previous year. That inevitably means some difficult decisions ahead and some authors are likely to be disappointed. On a more positive note, it promises a high quality of presentation and debate at the conference this December in Chicago.

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Digital Curation 101 Lite: How to Manage Research Data >>> UCL, London

20 August, 2010 | in Events

The DCC is happy to announce another instance of DC 101 Lite, the one-day version of its acclaimed data curation course. This is at University College London, providing an introduction to digital curation and offered in cooperation with the UK Data Archive. Free to UCL staff and £50 to others. For more details see the course description.

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Ariadne Issue 64 highlights issues in data curation

20 August, 2010 | in Community

Ariadne Issue 64, published today, contains a number of articles of particular interest to those concerned with research data curation.

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Ending It All Over Lost Data?

16 August, 2010 | in What's New

The BBC has an interesting story about "digital vagabonds", people who have given up traditional analogue posessions in order to live more completely virtual lives. Reading this with my DCC hat on, the same thought was always with me: Yes, but have they backed it all up?

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Event highlights RIN/NESTA Open Science Case Studies

16 August, 2010 | in DCC News

A new report on research carried out by DCC entitled "Open to All? Case studies of openness in research" is to be launched at an event at 4.40pm on 15 Sept 2010 at the Royal Society, 7 Carlton House Terrace, London. The event titled "Research and routes to innovation: Researchers’ use and exploitation of web based resources" also considers the findings from the recent RIN study If you build it, will they come? How researchers perceive and use web 2.0.

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