DCC/Edinburgh e-Science Collaborative Workshop

12 June 2008

15 South College Street, Edinburgh

The aim of this event is to help us learn more about the e-Science perspective on data curation, as well as to give e-Science practitioners an opportunity to influence both the ongoing and future work of the DCC. With an emphasis on data sharing, this workshop - which is by invitation only - will...

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Research Data Management Forum: Inaugural Workshop

19-20 March 2008

Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre, Manchester

In partnership with the Research Information Network we have created a new forum for the exchange of experience and best practice between the managers and technical staff from UK data centres, university repository installations and other related organisations with responsibility for the discovery...

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Database Seminar: MayBMS - A Database Management System for Uncertain and Probabilistic Data

13 December 2007

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

Dan Olteanu, Oxford University, present ed "MayBMS - A Database Management System for Uncertain and Probabilistic Data" at 4.00pm 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 Stephen Lawrie

29 November 2007

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

Stephen Lawrie talked about his work in the Division of Psychiatry Brain Imaging group at this informal (and free) lab lunch which started at 1.15pm. The DCC was a co-sponsor of this event.

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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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