Programme
Wednesday 2 December | |
| Pre-Conference Workshops | |
| 10.30 - 16.00 | Disciplinary Dimensions of Digital Curation: New Perspectives on Research Data Our SCARP Project case studies have explored data curation practice across a variety of clinical, life, social, humanities, physical and engineering research communities. This workshop will look at selected examples, considering the lifecycle of different data assemblages, and the risks and benefits encountered in curating them with the aim of stimulating discussion on the practical steps needed to manage this lifecycle and to translate approaches across communities. |
| 09.00 - 16.00 | Digital Curation 101 Lite Training Research councils and funding bodies are increasingly requiring evidence of adequate and appropriate provisions for data management and curation in new grant funding applications. This one-day training workshop is aimed at researchers and those who support researchers and want to learn more about how to develop sound data management and curation plans. The workshop will provide an introduction to digital curation, the range of activities and roles that should be considered when planning and implementing new projects, and an overview of tools that can assist with curation activities. Learning objectives:
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| 08.30 - 12.30 | Citability of Research Data Goal: Handling research datasets as unique, independent, citable research objects offers a wide variety of opportunities. The German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), the British Library, the Library of the ETH Zurich, the French Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (INIST), the Technical Information Center of Denmark and the Dutch TU Delft Library all signed a Memorandum of Understanding during the meeting of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) in Paris on 2 March 2009. The goal of this cooperation is to establish a not-for-profit agency that enables organisations to register research datasets and assign persistent identifiers to them. Citable datasets are accessible and can be integrated into existing catalogues and infrastructures. A citable datasets furthermore rewards scientists for their extra-work in storage and quality control of data by granting scientific reputation through cite-counts. The workshop will examine the different methods for the enabling of citable datasets and discuss common best practices and challenges for the future. Audience: librarians, data professionals, data centres, publishers, researchers
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| 14.00 - 16.30 | Repository Preservation Infrastructure (REPRISE) Following on from the successful Repository Curation Service Environments (RECURSE) Workshop at IDCC 2008, this workshop discusses digital repositories and their specific requirements for/as preservation infrastructure, as well as their role within a preservation environment. Digital repositories in various shapes and sizes are the basis for management and long-term retention of data (e.g. text publications, research data, multimedia). Some repositories have existed over a number of years, and have had to adapt to changes in their organisational and technological contexts. For example, organisational changes or cooperation across repositories may demand the translation of meta/data between the diverse contexts. Their experiences give insight into the kind of pro-active flexibility needed to sustain the repository and adapt to changes. This workshop aims to tap into these experiences and discuss technical features and shared services (beyond format registries, for example) for an open repository environment. Contributors include: Discussion points: open repository environment, preservation infrastructure, interoperability of repository services, (automatic) meta/data creation and mediation. |
| 10.00-15.30 | Managing and sharing research data: focus on consent, confidentiality and disclosure The UK Data Archive is holding a workshop on managing and sharing research data. Guidance is based on advice and support provided to ESRC award holders as part of their contractual obligations to share data, and on data management planning as implemented by the cross-Research Council Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) Programme. This workshop will cover key issues on data management and sharing as applied to socio-economic research involving people as participants (interviews, questionnaires, focus groups, observation and so on). It will provide both theoretical information and practical exercises and discussions |
| Evening Event | |
| 19.00-21.00 | Pre-Conference Drinks Reception - Natural History Museum [external] |
Thursday 3 December
| Day 1 | Moving to Multi-Scale Science: Managing Complexity and Diversity | |
| 08.00-09.00 | Conference Registration | Cromwell Suite 5 |
| 09.00-09.15 | Welcome | Cromwell Suite |
| 09.15-09.45 | Keynote Address | Cromwell Suite |
US Perspectives | Cromwell Suite | |
| 09.45-10.15 | The Data Conservancy: A Digital Resource & Curation Virtual Organisation - Prof. Carole Palmer, Director of Center for Informatics Research in Science & Scholarship, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Download presentation [PPT, 6.8MB] | |
| 10.15-10.45 | DataONE: a Virtual Data Center for Biology, Ecology, and the Environmental Sciences Dr. William Michener, University Libraries System, University of New Mexico | |
| 10.45-11.15 | Coffee | Conservatory |
| UK Perspectives Chair: Arthur Pasquinelli, Sun Microsystems Inc | Cromwell Suite | |
| 11.15-11.45 | NeuroHub: The information environment for the neuroscientist Prof. Anne Trefethen, Director of the Oxford eResearch Centre, University of OxfordDownload presentation [PPT, 12.2MB] | |
| 11.45-12.15 | National e-Infrastructure for Social Simulation (NeISS) | |
| 12.15-12.45 | Panel Discussion US/UK Perspectives Chair: Arthur Pasquinelli, Sun Microsystems Inc | Cromwell Suite |
| 12.45-13.45 | Lunch | Conservatory |
| Interactive Afternoon | ||
| 13.45-14.30 | Minute Madness Download presentation [PPT, 10MB] | Cromwell Suite |
| 14.30-16.00 | Community Space | Conservatory/Cromwell Suite |
| 16.00-17.30 | DCC Symposium | Cromwell Suite |
| 17.30-18.00 | Summing -up | Cromwell Suite |
| 19.00-22.00 | Champagne Cocktails Conference Buffet Dinner | Conservatory Conservatory |
Friday 4 December
| Day 2 | Research Papers | |
| 08.30-09.00 | Coffee | Cromwell Suite 5 |
| 09.00-09.05 | Welcome: Chris Rusbridge | Cromwell Suite |
| 09.05-09.35 | Best Peer-Reviewed Paper Chair: Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information | Cromwell Suite |
| 09.35-10.15 | Keynote Address | Cromwell Suite |
| 10.15-10.45 | Coffee | Conservatory |
| 10.45-12.15 | Session 1 Parallel A "Designing for Discovery and Re-Use: the "ANDS Data Sharing Verbs" "Curating the CIA World Factbook" | Cromwell Suite |
| 10.45-12.15 | Session 1 Parallel B Chair: Dr Helen Tibbo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "A Framework for Software Preservation" "Designing digital preservation solutions: a Risk management based approach" "Assisted Emulation for Legacy Executables" | Kensington Suite |
| 12.15-13.15 | Session 2 Parallel A Theme: Meeting Institutional Challenges Chair: Kevin Ashley, University of London Computer Centre "Data Curation Program Development in US Universities: The Georgia Institute of Technology Example" "Constructing Data Profiles" | Cromwell Suite |
| 12.15-13.15 | Session 2 Parallel B Chair: Carl Lagoze, Cornell University "Using a Core Scientific Metadata Model in Large Scale Facilities", "Grammar-Based Recognition of Documentary Forms and Extraction of Metadata" | Kensington Suite |
| 13.15-14.15 | Lunch | |
| 14.15-15.45 | Session 3 - (in Plenary) Theme: Disciplinary Challenges Chair: Max Wilkinson, Datasets Programme Manager, British Library "Understanding the information requirements of Arts & Humanities Scholarship" David Giaretta, Science & Technology Facilities Council & Sergio Albani, ESA-ESRIN Download presentation [PPT, 9.8MB] "Enabling product design reuse by long-term preservation of engineering knowledge" Jorg Brunsmann & Wolfgang Wilkes, Fernuniversitat Hagen Download presentation [PPT, 666KB] | Cromwell Suite |
| 15.45-16.30 | Plenary Chair: Chris Rusbridge Keynote Address: Timo Hannay - Publishing Director, Nature.com, Nature Publishing Group | Cromwell Suite |
| 16.30-16.45 | Closing Remarks - Chris Rusbridge | Cromwell Suite |
| 16.45 | Tea | Cromwell Suite 5 |