Digital Curation News

I2S2 Requirements Report available

29 July 2010 10:33
The Requirements Report for the I2S2 project, together with the final Lifecycle Model and a supplementary report are now available from the project website.
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International Journal of Digital Curation, Issue 1, Volume 5

26 July 2010 11:56
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.
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What will Openness do for Science? More on Climategate

23 July 2010 12:47
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.
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Deadline extended for papers for IDCC10

22 July 2010 17:45
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.
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Debate Continues on"Climategate" Data Implications

20 July 2010 12:17

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.

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