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Project Deliverables
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Deliverables and milestones: December, 2008: A Symposium on Institutional Data Services was held as part of the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Edinburgh University Data Library on 5 December. Peter Burnhill, Director of EDINA and the Data Library, presented a paper on the history of the Data Library. Other speakers were Charles (Chuck) Humphrey and Sheila Anderson plus an international panel. December, 2008: The DISC-UK project team met in person on 4th December at EDINA in Edinburgh (where the DCC conference was held earlier in the week). November, 2008: Robin Rice gave a presentation on Roles & Responsibilities for Data Curation: the Data Librarian at the 2nd DCC/RIN workshop of the Research Data Management Forum in Manchester, 27 November 2008. November, 2008: Robin Rice and Guy McGarva (EDINA) gave a two minute presentation at the Innovation Fair on Geospatially Enabling DSpace Repositories: Standards-compliant ways to georeference items in DSpace at the SPARC Conference on Digital Libraries in Baltimore, 18 November 2008. November, 2008: Stuart Macdonald presented Open Data - Projects, Tools, Initiatives at Seminario Sobre Datasets Consorcio Madrono, Salon de Actos, Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociologia - UNED, Madrid, 17 November 2008. October 2008: Third progress report delivered to JISC, including evaluation plan and partner reports. October 2008: Revised workpackages reflecting London School of Economics dropping to Associate Partner level and the addition of Data Audit Framework tasks at the three partner institutions. October 2008: Edinburgh DataShare repository announced to be open for business in the University IT newsletter, BITS. October 2008: London School of Economics, as associate partner in DISC-UK DataShare, announces new data librarian in post [blog entry]. October 2008: Stuart Macdonald and Luis Martinez Uribe each attended the week-long DCC 101 training course at the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh. September 2008: Robin Rice presented a poster at the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2008) in Berlin, on Applying DC to Institutional Data Repositories, [PDF]. Additionally she gave an invited brief presentation at the Metadata for Scientific Datasets Workshop held during the conference. September 2008: Briefing paper. Data Visualisation Tools: Part 2 - Spatial Data in a Web 2.0 Environment and Beyond, by Stuart Macdonald [PDF]. Minor updates October 2008. September, 2008: New Report - The Skills, Role and Career Structure of Data Scientists, by Luis Martinez [blog entry]. September, 2008: International Census Microdata Conference: Some resources recommended by speakers and JISC - Rights and Repositories Programme Meeting, Tanvi Desai [2 blog entries]. August, 2008: Notes from the Edinburgh Repository Fringe, by Stuart Macdonald [3 blog entries]. August, 2008: Stuart Macdonald presented Open Data, Open Minds - Web 2.0 data visualisation tools at Edinburgh Repository Fringe 2008, Playfair Library, University of Edinburgh, 1 August 2008. July, 2008: Luis Martinez Uribe presented the findings of the Oxford Research Data Management Project - Scoping digital repository services for research data management at Edinburgh Repository Fringe 2008, Playfair Library, University of Edinburgh, 31 July 2008. July, 2008: Robin Rice gave a DISC-UK DataShare project 'Soap-box' presentation - Opening the Doors: Minding the Gaps at Edinburgh Repository Fringe 2008, Playfair Library, University of Edinburgh, 31 July 2008. July, 2008: Stuart Macdonald presented DISC-UK DataShare at the MIMAS Open Forum, University of Manchester, 9 July 2008. July, 2008: DSpace Metadata Schema for Edinburgh DataShare - Ver. 1, 3 July 2008 by Robin Rice, Stuart Macdonald and George Hamilton [PDF]. July, 2008: DSpace for Data, 3 July 2008 by Robin Rice [blog entry]. July, 2008: Robin Rice contributed an article about the project to a special issue on digital repositories in ALISS Quarterly (3)4. June, 2008: DISC-UK goes to Silicon Valley for IASSIST 08, 27 June 2008 by Jane Roberts [blog entry]. June, 2008: Robin Rice presented DataShare and Data Audit Framework projects at Edinburgh at the DCC/Edinburgh e-Science Collaborative Workshop, National e-Science Centre, University of Edinburgh, 12 June 2008 and at the Research Data Management Workshop, University of Oxford, 13 June, 2008. June, 2008:Report from the RELU/UKDA Anonymity and Consent workshop, Edinburgh University, 17 June 2008 by Stuart Macdonald [blog entry]. June, 2008: Interview with Luis Martinez-Uribe and Stuart Macdonald published in CILIP Update; June 2008. Data Librarianship - a gap in the market. June, 2008: Open Repositories 2008 Conference Report published in CILIP Update; June 2008, by Stuart Macdonald and Luis Martinez-Uribe. May, 2008: Tanvi Desai (LSE), Robin Rice (Edinburgh), Stuart Macdonald (Edinburgh) gave presentations at the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST) annual conference, Stanford University, US, 28-30 May 2008. April, 2008: Progress report sent to JISC programme manager. April, 2008: Several members of the team attend Open Repositories, 2008 in Southampton and present a poster session. Ben O'Steen, Oxford, is member of the winning team of the Developer's Challenge for code using OAI-ORE. April, 2008:Report back from Open Knowledge conference, LSE, 15 March 2008 by Robin Rice [blog entry]. March, 2008: A 'lightning presentation' was given at the Open Knowledge Conference, LSE, 15 March 2008 on DataShare by Robin Rice [webcast at http://www.archive.org/details/OkCon2008 (final MP3 file, about half-way through)]. March, 2008: Article published in Online; Mar/Apr2008, Vol. 32 Issue 2, p36-40. Libraries in the Converging Worlds of Open Data, E-Research, and Web 2.0 (subscription required for access to article), by Stuart Macdonald and Luis Martinez. March, 2008: What's Different About Data?, by Robin Rice [blog entry]. March 2008: Blogs for Statistics and Data in the social sciences and beyond - As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 7th - 16th March, by Stuart Macdonald. February 2008: Web page. Collective Intellligence. RSS newsfeeds added to related sites. February 2008: Presentations (from project team meeting). Data Documentation Initiative (DDI), by Ann Green [PDF]. Guidelines and Tools for Repository Planning and Assessment, by Ann Green [PDF]. (Other presentations and notes posted on team filestore.) February 2008: Briefing paper. The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and Institutional Repositories, by Luis Martinez [PDF]. January 2008: Web page. Collective Intellligence. Dynamic tag cloud with links to social bookmarks. January 2008: Briefing paper. Data Visualisation Tools: Part 1 - Numeric Data in a Web 2.0 Environment, by Stuart Macdonald [PDF]. December 2007: Poster session. DISC-UK DataShare: Building capacity for institutional data repositories, presented at the 3rd International Digital Curation Centre conference, December 11-13, by Robin Rice, Ann Green, Sally Rumsey. December 2007: Leaflets. Four varieties of A5 colour leaflets printed for dissemination purposes by project team. December 2008: Part of a poster session highlighting EDINA repository projects presented at Data Without Borders , the 3rd Annual ESDS International Conference, December 3, by Stuart Macdonald. November 2007: Technical officer takes up post at Edinburgh. October 2007: Progress report sent to JISC programme manager. September 2007: Presentation. Open the Data Doors to Perception (presented at the Internet Librarian International 2007: New Realities, Roles, Resources, London, UK), by Luis Martinez and Stuart Macdonald [PPT]. September 2007: Report. DISC-UK DataShare: State-of-the-Art Review, by Harry Gibbs [PDF]. September 2007: Poster session. Repository Junction and Beyond at the EDINA (UK) National Data Centre Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 11th European Conference, ECDL 2007 Proceedings (September 2007) Budapest, Hungary, by Robin Rice ,et al [Published summary, PDF]. Graphical poster [PDF]. September 2007: DataShare logo and newly designed DISC-UK website. September 2007: Graphic. Data Sharing Continuum, by Robin Rice [PDF]. September 2007: Project Plan (minus appendices) [PDF]. Workpackages [PDF]. August 2007: DataShare Blog (including feeds from our social bookmarks). July, 2007: Correspondence. DISC-UK Response to RIN consultation: Stewardship of digital research data - principles and guidelines, by Robin Rice, et al . See http://www.rin.ac.uk/data-principles for RIN documents. See also the Publications and presentations page for DISC-UK outputs pre-dating the project . |
