Digital Curation Centre | because good research needs good data

Supporting Research Data Management at ECDL 2010

6 September, 2010 | in Blogs

Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, Digital Curation Centre, and her DCC colleague Sarah Jones will facilitate the panel on Developing Services to Support Research

Registration for the 6th IDCC is now open!

3 September, 2010 | in Events

"Participation and Practice: Growing the Curation Community through the Data Decade" 6-8 December 2010, Chicago, Illinois, USA. This year’s International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) is 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).

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.

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/ .

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.

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.