CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model Tutorial

29 January 2008

University of Glasgow

Workshop Materials Part One The CIDOC CRM, a Standard for the Integration of Cultural Information Martin Doerr, Steve Stead View PowerPoint slides [1.49MB] Part Two Modelling Intellectual Processes: The object-orient FRBR Model Martin Doerr View...

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4th International Digital Curation Conference

01-03 December 2008

Hilton Edinburgh Grosvenor Hotel, Edinburgh

In partnership with the National e-Science Centre [external] and supported by the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) [external] we held our 4th International Digital Curation Conference on the theme "Radical Sharing: Transforming Science?," which comprised a mix of peer-reviewed...

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DCC/DPE Forum: Developing an International Framework for Audit and Certification

29 November 2007

Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

Evidence-based evaluation has been used successfully for many years to establish trust in traditional repositories such as museums and archives. It is, however, a mistake to assume that the trust earned by a repository that successfully manages and preserves analogue material can be transferred to...

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DCC/DPE/DRIVER/Nestor Joint Workshop: Practices and Challenges in Preservation and Access for Scientific and Scholarly Digital Repositories

27-28 November 2007

Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

In conjunction with Digital Preservation Europe (DPE), Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research (DRIVER), and Network of Expertise in Long-Term Storage of Digital Resources (nestor), we delivered a joint workshop on the long-term curation of scientific and scholarly digital...

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Joint DCC and SCRIPTed Workshop on the Legal Environment of Digital Curation

23 November 2007

Charles Wilson Building, University of Glasgow

This one-day workshop provided a useful overview of legal considerations for non-legal professionals who work with data. The day comprised talks by experts in the areas of intellectual property rights and licensing; data protection, freedom of information and privacy; and data as evidence.

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Database Group Lab Lunch with Limsoon Wong

16 October 2007

The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, Appleton Tower 2nd floor break-out area

Limsoon Wong, National University of Singapore, talked about the inference of the function of a protein in computational biology at this informal (and free) lab lunch which started at 12.45pm. The DCC was a co-sponsor of this event.

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LOCKSS Discussion Workshop

26 November 2007

School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

As the LOCKSS Pilot Programme draws to an end, participants gathered together at this workshop to discuss their experiences, lessons learnt, and ways in which the UK community can move forward. See the full programme [PDF, 42KB]

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e-Science Collaborative Workshop

16 October 2007

Imperial College, London

This is the fourth in a series of workshops held jointly by the DCC and a regional e-Science centre (the Imperial College Internet Centre in this case) for the exchange of practitioner experience and sharing advice on data curation.

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SoA Pre-Conference Tutorial: Building Trust in Digital Repositories Using the DRAMBORA Toolkit

27 August 2007

Queen's University, Belfast

This practical tutorial provided a contextual overview of the need for an evidence based evaluation of digital repositories and offered an overview of the DCC pilot audits to date.

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