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Monday 20 November

17.30-19.30 Pre-Conference Presentation and Reception
Hunterian Art Gallery
Welcome
Sir Muir Russell, Principal of the University of Glasgow View presentation [PDF, 19KB]

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Tuesday 21 November

09.00-10.00 Registration and Coffee
10.00-11.00 Session 1: Welcome and Introduction
Chris Rusbridge, DCC Director View presentation [PPT, 849KB]

Opening Keynote Address
Hans Hoffmann, CMS Team Leader, CERN View presentation [PPT, 34.5MB]

Chair: Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President for Technical Computing, Microsoft
11.00-11.30 Tea and Coffee
11.30-13.00 Session 2: Disciplines and Data
Chair: Tony Hey

Digital Data Preservation in Astronomy
S. Choudhury, T. DiLauro, A. Szalay, E. Vishniac, The Johns Hopkins University, J. Steffen, The University of Chicago Press, R. Milkey, American Astronomical Society, T. Ehling, Cornell University, R. Plante, University of Illinois/National Centre for Supercomputing Applications, R. Hanisch, Space Telescope Science Institute View presentation [PPT, 2.4MB]

The Roles of Shared Data Collections in Neurosciences
Melissa H. Cragin, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign View presentation [PPT, 164KB]

Data Curation and the Messy World of Social Science Occupational Information Resources
Paul Lambert, Larry Tan, Ken Turner, Vernon Gayle, Richard Sinnot, Ken Prandy View presentation [PPT, 484KB]
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Session 3: Posters and Demos
Chair: Chris Rusbridge
15.30-16.00 Tea and Coffee
16.00-17.30 Session 4: Life Cycles
Chair: Chris Greer, Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI), National Science Foundation

The curation of laboratory experimental data as part of the overall data lifecycle
Jeremy G. Frey, School of Chemistry, University of Southampton View presentation [PPT, 5.8MB]

Versions of academic papers: current practice and attitudes of economics researchers towards creating and storing digital versions
Frances Shipsey, LSE

"The Naming of Cats": Automated Genre Classification
Yunhyong Kim, Seamus Ross, DCC & University of Glasgow View presentation [PPT, 231KB]
19.30 Evening Social Event
Drinks reception and conference dinner at City Chambers, Glasgow

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Wednesday 22 November

09.00-09.45 Keynote Address
Liz Lyon, DCC Associate Director (Outreach), and Director (UKOLN) at the University of Bath View presentation [PPT, 9.2MB]
Chair: Chris Rusbridge
09.45-10.30 Session 5: Panel Session
Open Science including Legal & Science Issues

Chair: Chris Rusbridge

Panel:
  • Andrés Guadamuz González, E-Commerce lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, and co-director of the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law
  • Shuichi Iwata, Professor of data science and environmental engineering at the University of Tokyo, and CODATA president View presentation [PPT, 3.2MB]
  • Peter Murray-Rust, Department of Chemistry, Churchill College, University of Cambridge View presentation [PPT, 195KB]
10.30-11.00 Tea and Coffee
11.00-13.00 Session 6: Practical Approaches
Chair: Kevin Schürer, Director of the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) and the UK Data Archive (UKDA)
  • Developing practical approaches to active preservation
    Adrian Brown, TNA View presentation [PPT, 1.4MB]
  • Digital Archive Policies and Trusted Digital Repositories
    MacKenzie Smith, MIT Libraries, Cambridge Massachusetts, and Reagan W. Moore, SDSC, University of California, San Diego View presentation [PPT, 183KB]
  • Development of prototype persistent archives
    Paul Watry, Liverpool University View presentation [PPT, 111KB]
  • Attitudes and aspirations in a diverse world: the Project StORe perspective on scientific repositories
    Graham Pryor, University of Edinburgh View presentation [PPT, 440KB]
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Session 7: Parallel Short Papers

Group A: Preservation Repository Experiences
Chair: Helen Hockx-Yu, Programme Manager, JISC
  • Data Publication at the British Atmospheric Data Centre
    S. J. Pepler, S. E. Latham, S. A. Sufi, P. Simpson, K. A. Bouton, C. M. Jones, B. N. Lawrence, B. M. Matthews and A. J. Miles, NERC Centres for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC), National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) View presentation [PPT, 3.1MB]
  • Towards Informed Preservation Choices for Institutional Repositories
    Jessie Hey, Steve Hitchcock, Tim Brody & Les Carr, University of Southampton View presentation [PPT, 2.2MB]
  • Modelling OAIS compliance for disaggregated services
    Gareth Knight, Arts and Humanities Data Service View presentation [PPT, 482KB]

Group B: Educating the Data Scientist
Chair: Peter Buneman, Associate Director (Research), DCC

  • Graduate Curriculum for Biological Information Specialists: A key to integration of Scale in Biology
    P. Bryan Heidorn, Carole Palmer and Dan Wright, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign View presentation [PPT, 1.9MB]
  • Training and Professional Development for digital preservation
    Najla Semple, Digital Preservation Coalition View presentation [PPT, 113KB]
  • Approaches to Educating Digital Curation Scientists
    Bob Mann, University of Edinburgh and Seamus Ross, University of Glasgow View presentation [PPT, 516KB]

Group C: Policies and Persuasion
Chair: Mark Thorley, Data Management Coordinator, NERC

  • Data and Information Creation, Preservation and Curation
    Juan Bicarregui, Business and Information Technology Department, CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
    Neil Beagrie, JISC/British Library View presentation [PPT, 1.7MB]
  • Research Funders' Policies and Practice in the Management of Research Outputs: Results of an RIN Study
    Michael Jubb, Research Information Network View presentation [PPT, 285KB]
  • The world is all grown digital.... How shall a man persuade management what to do in such times?
    James Currall, Claire Johnson, Peter McKinney, eSPIDA
15.00-16.00 Closing Plenary including Closing Keynote
Chair: Chris Rusbridge

Address by Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

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