All events

6th International Digital Curation Conference

6 December, 2010 - 8 December, 2010

Digital curation manages, maintains, preserves, and adds value to digital data throughout the lifecycle, reducing threats to long-term value, mitigating the risk of digital obsolescence and enhancing usefulness for research and scholarship. This year’s International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will be presented jointly by the Digital Curation Centre, UK and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and in partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI).

DCC Roadshow 2010 - 2011

2 November, 2010 - 4 November, 2010

The DCC is organising a series of inter-linked UK workshops aimed at supporting institutional data management, planning and training. The event will run over 3 days and will provide Institutions with advice and guidance tailored to a range of different roles and responsibilities.

RDMF5: Economics of Applying and Sustaining Digital Curation

27 October, 2010 - 17:00 - 28 October, 2010 - 16:00

This will the fifth meeting of the Research Data Management Forum. Aimed at researchers, digital repository managers, staff from library, information and research organisations, data curators, data centre managers, data scientists, research funding organisations and research networks, the event will address the topic "Economics of Applying and Sustaining Digital Curation." Follow the link on the right ("Download the event PDF") for the draft event programme.

Digital Preservation Training Programme

4 October, 2010 - 6 October, 2010

University of London Computer Centre announces that the next Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) will take place from 4th-6th of October 2010, at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London.

Digital Preservation Training Programme, Web Archiving Workshop

28 June, 2010

A one-day workshop on web archiving will be held at SOAS on 28th June 2010. The workshop will look at the selection, capture and management of websites and web resources, introducing and assessing various organizational approaches and technological tools which exist. The training will look at website archiving within the framework of the OAIS model which is currently taught on the DPTP, and illustrate the concepts with practical examples and exercises.

Survive or Thrive: Making the most of your digital content

8 - 9 June, 2010

The growth and use of digital content on the Web together with the digital deluge pose opportunities as well as challenges. How best are they both to be exploited and managed? UKOLN is organising the Survive or Thrive 2010 Conference on behalf of JISC to address such issues. The Conference will take place at the Macdonald Hotel, Manchester over Tuesday 8 – Wednesday 9 June 2010.

Next generation data centres: the key to business advantage?

26 May, 2010 - 16:00

PTS Consulting will consider the impact on the business of the next generation Data Centre including: best practice; cost control; energy efficiency; carbon reduction; cooling and power; and technology trends such as virtualisation and convergence. The Carbon Trust will provide the opening session and set the scene on the Government’s carbon reduction and energy efficiency agenda. Senior Executives from PTS' client and partner organisations will share views and experience on these strategically important topics

Tools of the Trade Workshops

19 May, 2010

The DCC ran two Tools of the Trade workshops in conjunction with the JISC MRD Progress Workshop. The first introduced users to the newly refined Data Asset Framework (DAF) toolkit and the second, held in cooperation with the University of London Computing Centre (ULCC), introduced users to the Assessing Institutional Digital Assets (AIDA) toolkit.

JISC MRD Progress Workshop

17 - 18 May, 2010

The purpose of the workshop was to consider how best to meet the challenge of managing research data in UK Universities. Participants were informed of progress made under the JISC MRD Programme to examine researchers’ data management requirements and improve planning in a number of academic and institutional contexts. The objective was to discuss the detail of the projects’ discoveries and to consider the more general landscape and initiatives required.

Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Information.

6 May, 2010

JISC and The Blue Ribbon Task Force on sustainable digital preservation and access are sponsoring a one day free symposium on Thursday 6th May 2010 at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre in London. The UK Symposium will be highlighting the final report by the Blue Ribbon Task Force "Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Information": Go to the Blue ribbon task force final report