Registration opens for Cardiff Roadshow

Registration is now open for the seventh DCC Roadshow: Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade which is being organised in conjunction with Cardiff University Libraries.

The roadshow will run from 14-16 December 2011 and will take place in the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

The event runs over three days but each workshop can be booked individually. Attendees are encouraged to select the workshops which address their own particular data management requirements.

The workshops will provide advice and guidance tailored to a range of staff, including PVCs Research, University Librarians, Directors of IT/Computing Services, Repository Managers, Research Support Services and practising researchers.

Day 1 will include a welcome from Janet Peters, Director of University Libraries & University Librarian at  Cardiff University, followed by an overview of the Changing Data Landscape from Liz Lyon (DCC Associate Director & Director of UKOLN).

Case studies will be presented by:

• Sarah Phillips, University Records Manager 
• Professor Martyn Guest, Director of Advanced Research Computing, Cardiff University
• Alexander Roberts, ISS Web Team Coordinator, Information Services and Systems, Swansea University
• Simon Foster, RMAS Coordinating Project Manager, Research & Knowledge Transfer, University of Exeter

Steve Walsh from the Interoperable Geospatial Data for Biosphere Study (IGIBS) Project, Aberystwyth University, wrote a review of the workshop held in Oxford. Steve commented that attending the roadshow helped him understand that "it is only the moment when data management arrives at the top of an individual’s priority list that it actually gets done."

Attending the forthcoming roadshow may help you not only realise the importance of data management, but provide you with the tools to move it up your priority list.

We look forward to seeing you there!