Data in Nature
Finally got around to looking at the article on data that appeared on the Nature website last week. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7261/full/461145a.html Very nice to see JISC mentioned so...
View ArticleiPres 2009 – Preservation Infrastructure Track
In San Francisco at iPres sitting in the preservation infrastructure track. Stephen Abrams (CDL) is telling us about micro-curation services. Lots of clear categorisation of types of services that...
View ArticleEC Digital Libraries and Digital Preservation Call
I went to a meeting in Peter Mandelson’s basement the other day, otherwise known as the Department for Business Innovation and Skills just next to Westminster Abbey. Lord Mandelson (if you go up about...
View ArticleData Management Policy – An Interview with Paul Taylor
Dr. Paul Taylor works at the University of Melbourne and has just finished a 2 week secondment in the UK with the JISC-funded EIDCSR (Embedding Institutional Data Curation Services in Research) project...
View ArticleThe Economics of Sustaining Digital Information
I’m in Washington to attend the US Symposium of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. Symposium programme – http://brtf.sdsc.edu/symposium.html This is the end of a...
View ArticleHalfway through the US Blue Ribbon Meeting
Greetings from Blue Ribbon Meeting again. http://brtf.sdsc.edu/index.html Some interesting angles emerging from a variety of participants. Heard from Thomas Kalil this morning who works as a policy...
View ArticleJISC Grant Funding Call
The JISC Information Environment and eResearch team have been working on a grant funding call which should be released on or around 4th October. There will be a briefing day in London on 11th October;...
View ArticleMicro-services?
Why do repositories quickly become so complex? One answer is simply scope creep – repositories have roles in dissemination, research information management and curation and, facing these three ways, it...
View ArticleNew Digital Infrastructure funding call available now
What better way to welcome the freshly rebranded Digital Infrastructure team blog than to announce a new funding call that spans nearly all the activities that the team is involved in. The call is...
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Enhancing Digital Infrastructure to Support Open Content in Education:...
I am very pleased to announce fifteen new projects to enhance the digital infrastructure to support open content in education. The Call for proposals was released in November 2011. We received 34...
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