From jqin at syr.edu  Sun Sep 18 09:51:44 2011
From: jqin at syr.edu (Jian Qin)
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:51:44 -0400
Subject: [Rdap] FW: DC-Science and Metadata Agenda, DC-2011
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FYI.
From: DCMI Science and Metadata Community [mailto:DC-SCIENCE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Greenberg, Jane
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 12:47 AM
To: DC-SCIENCE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: DC-Science and Metadata Agenda, DC-2011

DC2011 Science and Metadata
This is an open invitation to join the DCMI-SAM (Science and Metadata) community meeting @ DC-2011.  The meeting is free and open to all DC-2011 attendees.  DC-SAM wiki is @:  http://purl.org/dc/science.

Date/Time/Place: Thursday, 22 September/14:00-15:30/The National Library of the Netherlands/Koninklijke Bibliotheek: http://www.kb.nl/hpd/wegwijzer/plattegrond-en.html.

Meeting Agenda
1. Welcome and Introductions (Jane Greenberg, UNC/Metadata Research Center.)
2. Context and brief updates for DC-SAM community (Jane Greenberg)
3. Status report: DataCite Dublin Core (DC2) Application Profile: Progress Report (Jian Qin, Syracuse U.)
4. Presentations:
4.1:   Overview of Scientific Metadata for Data Publishing, Citation, and Curation (Alex Ball, Research Officer, UKOLN)
Scientific data as a resource type is very hard to characterize, not least because of the sheer variety of requirements placed on it by different areas of research. It is no surprise, then, that scientific metadata has traditionally been very discipline- and application-specific. With the rise of interdisciplinary research and data sharing, though, there is increasing pressure for common standards in areas such as data discovery and curation. Mr. Ball will report on his research assessing the feasibility of a common metadata profile for scientific data discovery, and ask "Is it worth a try?"
4.2:   Elsevier Metadata Design for Smart Content (Michael Lauruhn, Disruptive Technology Director, Elsevier Labs; V?ronique Malais?, Head of Taxonomy Center, Content Enrichment Center)
Elsevier researchers will review SKOS and Resource Description Framework (RDF) considerations for Smart Content initiatives that facilitate the move into a Linked Data environment. The presentation will include an overview of EMMeT (Elsevier Merged Medical Taxonomy) and ongoing research in the area of Smart Content including an overview of prototypes and previews of products.
5. Open discussion
6. Future charter and group activity
Link back to DCMI Science and Metadata main page: http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DCMI_Science_And_Metadata (or http://purl.org/dc/science).

Sincerely, DC-SAM community co-leaders Alex, Jane, and Jian

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Jane Greenberg, Professor and
Director of the Metadata Research Center <MRC>
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB #3360, 205 Manning Hall
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3360

Email: janeg at email.unc.edu<mailto:janeg at email.unc.edu>
Tel.:  919-962-8066/Fax.: 919-962-8071
Web:   http://ils.unc.edu/~janeg
<MRC>  http://ils.unc.edu/mrc


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From mweaver at asis.org  Thu Sep 22 14:55:07 2011
From: mweaver at asis.org (Melissa Weaver)
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:55:07 -0700
Subject: [Rdap] SIG DL digital libraries and institutional repositories
	survey
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Hello RDAPers,

I want to pass on a message about out SIG Digital Libraries Survey. Even if
you do not plan to attend their workshop at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting, your
input will be invaluable to this group. Survey link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8T79T9V  Thanks! - Misty Melissa
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SIG-DL Survey on Digital Libraries/Institutional Repositories Now Open!

Our SIG-DL Workshop is now a little more than a month away (October 12th,
2011)! In preparation for this highly participatory workshop, we are
soliciting your opinion on the accomplishments and challenges of digital
libraries and institutional repositories for discussion there. Even if you
can't join us for the workshop, we would very much to have your thoughts to
share in the discussion!

The link to participate in this anonymous survey is as follows:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8T79T9V

And please do considering joining us in New Orleans to share your thoughts
in person at:

SIG Digital Libraries: A Builders? Dozen
ASIST 2011 Post Conference Workshop
Sponsored by SIG Digital Libraries <http://www.asis.org/SIG/sigdl/>

Please join us for an afternoon of interactive discussion, and maybe just a
little reminiscing, focused on past and current digital initiatives,
directions for research and evaluation, and perspectives from leaders in the
field!

This highly participatory workshop builds on the past dozen years of SIG-DL
efforts and looks forward to the next dozen years. Three participants from
previous SIG-DL-sponsored panels representing some of the most significant
developments in the current ?built? environment of digital collection
projects will discuss their views of the most important ?building blocks?
for successful projects. Three participants from digital collection projects
either proposed or now under development will discuss their views of the
most important ?building blocks? necessary to create ?to-be-built?
environments of the future.

When: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 1:30-5:30
Where: ASIST post conference workshop. Room to be announced later
Why: To participate in discussions about research, development, and pedagogy

Keynote speakers include:

? Dr. Gary Marchionini, Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor,
School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina
? Dr. Edward Fox, Professor and Director of the Center for Human-Computer
Interaction, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech University

To attend this interactive workshop, please register by adding the cost of
the post conference to your ASIST registration when you register for the
annual conference. Price for the workshop is $65.00 (this includes the
workshop and afternoon refreshments).

A full program (when available) and updates about the event will be posted
to the SIG-DL webpage at: http://www.asis.org/SIG/sigdl/ and on SIG DL
Facebook LinkedIn, or Twitter groups. Also feel free to contact either June
Abbas (jmabbas at ou.edu) or Betsy Martens (bvmartens at ou.edu) for more
information.

Betsy Van der Veer Martens
Communications Officer, SIG-DL
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From rhill at asis.org  Wed Sep 28 09:49:53 2011
From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill)
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:49:53 -0400
Subject: [Rdap] Carolina researchers tapped to develop national data
	infrastructure
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FYI,  Dick Hill


-----Original Message-----
From: Monroe, Wanda G. [mailto:wmonroe at email.unc.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 9:18 AM
To: News from SILS
Subject: [silsnews] Carolina researchers tapped to develop national data
infrastructure


CHAPEL HILL - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is leading a
new effort to address key data challenges facing scientific researchers in
the digital age.

The National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $8 million over five
years to the DataNet Federation Consortium, a group that spans seven
universities, to build and deploy a prototype national data management
infrastructure. About half the award will support research and development
at UNC.

The consortium will address the data management needs of six science and
engineering disciplines: oceanography, hydrology, engineering design, plant
biology, cognitive science and social science.

The infrastructure project will support collaborative multidisciplinary
research through shared collections and archives and data publication within
digital libraries.

The Data Intensive Cyber Environments research group in UNC's School of
Information and Library Science leads the consortium. The Renaissance
Computing Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill is responsible for federating the
consortium's diverse data repositories to enable cross-disciplinary
research. Federating data involves tasks such as providing a common access
interface and developing common data management policies.

The DFC will use iRODS, the integrated Rule Oriented Data System, to
implement policy-based data management infrastructure. iRODS, developed by
UNC's DICE Center and DICE researchers at the University of California at
San Diego, enforces policies as computer actionable rules to organize
distributed data into sharable collections. 
Procedures to automate data management functions are cast as computer
executable workflows. Policies control data access, sharing and archiving.
Research groups worldwide, including the NASA Center for Climate
Simulations, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, the Australian
Research Collaboration Service and the Texas Digital Libraries, use iRODS
technology to manage their research data grids, implement digital libraries
and build persistent archives.

"Excelling in the digital age requires that scientific disciplines and
government agencies have the ability to manage the enormous amount of data
that are generated each day," said Barbara Entwisle, UNC's vice chancellor
for research. "Scientists can only solve the important problems of our times
if they can easily access, share, analyze and preserve data for future
researchers and students. This award is important beyond its dollar amount
because it establishes Carolina as the leader in the worldwide research
community in taming the data deluge and as the data federation hub for
collaborative research. It's a role that is essential for future discoveries
and innovations."

UNC experts will work with six National Science Foundation-supported
consortia that will use the new data infrastructure. They are:

* The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a program led by the University
of California at San Diego and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
which uses data from environmental sensors to study the ocean and sea floor.
* The Consortium of Universities for Advancement of Hydrologic Science Inc.
(CUAHSI), a University of South Carolina-led organization that works to
advance water science.
* Cyber-Infrastructure-Based Engineering Repositories for Undergraduates, an
initiative led by Drexel University, which uses digital design repositories
to enhance engineering instruction and learning.
* The iPlant Collaborative, a University of Arizona-led project developing
an integrated cyberinfrastructure to advance studies of plant biology.
* The UNC Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, which focuses on
teaching and research in the social sciences.
* The Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center, based at the University of
California at San Diego, which studies the role of time and timing in
learning to improve educational practices.

At Arizona State University, consortium researchers will collaborate on
policy-based data management systems. Duke University researchers will
develop education and outreach initiatives to broaden the consortium's
impact.

"We see this as the first step to building a data infrastructure that will
accommodate collaborative research, new educational approaches and
innovative problem solving in academic institutions, in federal agencies and
across national boundaries," said Reagan Moore, Ph.D., the consortium's
principal investigator and School of Information and Library Science
professor and scientist with the Renaissance Computing Institute. "The
infrastructure we develop will address all stages in the community-based
data collection lifecycle, from initial collection formation for a single
project, to shared collections across institutions, to formation of data
processing pipelines, to publication and long term preservation."

Co-principal investigators of the project include: Dr. Arcot Rajasekar, SILS
professor and research scientist at RENCI; Dr. John Orcutt, OOI; Dr. William
C. Regli, Ciber-U, Drexel University; and Dr. Jonathan Goodall, CUAHSI,
University of South Carolina. 

SILS faculty are a critical part of the team determining information needs
of the science partners for the development of the iRods system included in
the DataNet project. They include Dr. Helen Tibbo, alumni distinguished
professor, and Dr. Christopher (Cal) Lee, associate professor, senior
personnel on the project who will lead the Policy and Standards Community of
Practice, charged with identifying the practices and needs of the scientific
groups, and identify associated requirements for policies and processes.
Dr. Richard Marciano, professor, leads development of sustainability
mechanisms for data collections.

During the first 18 months of the grant, the consortium will focus on
federating the data management cyberinfrastructure for the OOI, CUASHI and
CIBER-U. The work will include identifying federation requirements,
integrating existing data management systems, deploying a federation hub and
developing policies and procedures for data sharing so that the data
collections of these research communities can become the foundation of a
national data cyberinfrastructure.


School of Information and Library Science contact: Wanda Monroe,
(919) 843-8337, wmonroe at unc.edu
Renaissance Computing Institute contact: Karen Green, (919) 445-9648,
kgreen at renci.org News Services contact: Patric Lane, (919) 962-8596,
patric_lane at unc.edu

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Wanda Monroe
Director of Communications
School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
100 Manning Hall, CB 3360
Chapel Hill, NC  27599-3360
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