Database Seminar: Logic, Automata, Games, and Algorithms

04 September 2007

King's Buildings, Edinburgh

Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University, presented "Logic, Automata, Games, and Algorithms" at 3.00pm as part of the Scottish Database Interest Group [external] seminar season. The DCC was a co-sponsor of this event.

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Database Group Lab Lunch with Gerald Weber

29 August 2007

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

Gerald Weber, University of Auckland, New Zealand, talked about "Enterprise modelling: challenges and opportunities" at this informal (and free) lab lunch which started at 1.00pm. The DCC was a co-sponsor of this event.

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DCC Guest Lecture: Appraisal of Data as a Precursor to Digital Curation

17 July 2007

Charles Wilson Building, University of Glasgow

John Faundeen, Archivist, U.S. Geological Survey, Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science, talked about the reasons for appraising data as well as reviewing processes developed for scientific records by the U.S. Geological Survey Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science. A tool...

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DCC Lab Lunch with Stephen Salter

26 April 2007

Appleton Tower, Edinburgh

Stephen Salter, Emeritus Professor of Engineering Design, School of Engineering and Electronics, University of Edinburgh, talked about his work at this informal (and free) lab lunch.

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Database Seminar: Management of Probabilistic Data: Foundations and Challenges

25 July 2007

The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, Appleton Tower 2nd floor seminar room (2.02)

Dan Suciu, University of Washington Seattle, WA USA, presented "Management of Probabilistic Data: Foundations and Challenges" at 4.10pm as part of the Scottish Database Interest Group [external] seminar season at the University of Edinburgh, Appleton Tower 2nd floor seminar room (2.02)....

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Database Seminar: John L Faundeen, US Geological Survey Archivist

19 July 2007

The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, Appleton Tower 2nd floor seminar room (2.02)

John L Faundeen, US Geological Survey Archivist, talked about his work at USGS at 4.00pm as part of the Scottish Database Interest Group [external] seminar season at the University of Edinburgh, Appleton Tower 2nd floor seminar room (2.02). This event was webcast live. The DCC was a co-sponsor of...

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Joint DCC and DPE Tutorial: Building Trust in Digital Repositories Using the DRAMBORA Toolkit

03 May 2007

Hague

Running from 11.00am to 4.00pm, 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. The tutorial then moved on to demonstrate how institutions can...

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DCC Lab Lunch with Graham Pryor

24 May 2007

Appleton Tower, Edinburgh

Graham Pryor, StORe Project Manager, University of Edinburgh, talked about StORe [external], which connects source repository content (data) to output repository content (papers), at this informal (and free) lab lunch which started at 1.00pm.

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DCC Lab Lunch: Debugging Schema Mappings with Routes

13 April 2007

Appleton Tower, Edinburgh

Wang-Chiew Tan, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz, presented "Debugging Schema Mappings with Routes" at this informal (and free) lab lunch.

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