From mweaver at asis.org Sat Apr 6 17:08:33 2013 From: mweaver at asis.org (Melissa Weaver) Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 17:08:33 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] RDAP13 wrap-up - Attendees: please share your thoughts in our event survey Message-ID: Thank you for attending the Research Data Access & Preservation Summit, please help us plan and improve the event by sharing your thoughts in our online survey http://bit.ly/RDAP13eval If you were not at RDAP13, you can still participate! Please consider volunteering for 2014 RDAP planning committee by sending an email to rdapinfo at asis.org. Or you may prefer to share your thoughts and questions by starting a thread on this listserv. You can view slides of the presentations at http://www.slideshare.net/tag/rdap13 And we'll continue to update our website as we transform from 2013 to 2014. And thanks so much to our Co-Chairs, Panel Leads, Speakers, Attendees and Volunteers! 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NISO provides this Year in Review issue on an annual basis to keep readers apprised of all the accomplishments of our community in the past year. ?NISO has a very active standards and recommended practices development pipeline with more than 20 active projects,? explains Nettie Lagace, NISO?s Associate Director for Programs. ?In 2012, we published two new standards, the revision of a two-part standard, two new recommended practices, two recommended practice revisions, and a new white paper. We also launched three new initiatives and were awarded two new grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. These are all described in more detail in this issue of ISQ.? ?NISO?s role as the U.S. Administrator for the ISO TC46 Committee on Information and Documentation and the Secretariat for the subcommittee on Identification and Description ensures that our community has an active role in international standards development as well,? said Cynthia Hodgson, ISQ Managing Editor and a consultant for NISO who helps manage the ISO work. ?Our members not only vote on these ISO standards ballots, they also provide critical comments to the development working groups and volunteer to be members of these groups to help shape these international standards. This issue summarizes the work of TC 46 and its four subcommittees during 2012.? ?Standards and recommended practice development is only possible through the dedicated efforts of knowledgeable volunteers throughout the community,? states Todd Carpenter, NISO?s Executive Director. ?Nothing NISO accomplishes could have happened without the tremendous efforts and support of our community of volunteers. The successes of the past year are a perfect example of that and as an organization we have much to be proud of, which is clearly illustrated in this issue.? The Spring issue also contains a standard spotlight article on the Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS), a new standard based on an older specification, originally developed at the National Library of Medicine. Also included in the issue is the annual reference listing of all of NISO?s published standards, recommended practices, and technical reports. The Spring issue of Information Standards Quarterly is available electronically in open access from the NISO website at: www.niso.org/publications/isq/. ISQ is also available in print format by subscription or in print on demand. Cynthia Hodgson ISQ Managing Editor chodgson at niso.org 301-654-2512 From oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov Mon Apr 15 13:22:01 2013 From: oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov (Joe Hourcle) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:22:01 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] Job: Data Engineer Intern at California Academy of Sciences References: <20130415164021.10370.6979@li144-162.members.linode.com> Message-ID: For those who have students who might be looking for internships ... it's a bit more programmer than librarian, but might be of interest. -Joe Begin forwarded message: > From: jobs at CODE4LIB.ORG > Date: April 15, 2013 12:40:21 PM EDT > To: CODE4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: [CODE4LIB] Job: Data Engineer Intern at California Academy of Sciences > Reply-To: Code for Libraries > > Reporting to the Archivist, the Data Engineer Intern plays > a key role in a pilot project exploring methods of connecting text, digital > images, and taxonomic data sets. Intern will build elegant, > reusable code to connect archival collections with biological specimen > records, and will have the opportunity to invent creative ways of visualizing > the resultant data sets. This project is funded under > "Connecting Content: A Collaboration to Link Field Notes to Specimens and > Published Literature," a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of > Museum and Library Services. This position is a 135 hour > internship, with a stipend of $4000.00 and the option of receiving course > credit. Hours must be completed between 9AM-6PM, Monday - Friday, during the > summer of 2013. > > > > > ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: > > > Work with Archivist to plan 3-month software project > > Build elegant and reusable code to interact with RESTful web services > > Explore methods of visualizing taxonomic data sets on the web and in Google > Earth > > Present results to project partners and Academy staff > > Work onsite at the California Academy of Sciences > > Follow all Academy safety regulations > > Other duties as assigned > > > > QUALIFICATIONS > > > To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each > essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are > representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable > accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform > the essential functions. > > > > > EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE > > > The ideal candidate will possess a combination of the following education > and/or equivalent experience to succeed in this position: > > > Currently pursuing BS or MS in Informatics, Computer Science, > Library/Information Science, or closely related field at > university. > > Understanding of data structures or database design. > > Familiarity with at least one scripting language. > > > > KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: > > > Experience with RESTful web services (JSON / XML responses) > > Experience working with KML files, and Google Earth > > Demonstrated ability to write high-performance, reusable code > > Demonstrated experience with at least one scripting language, preferably > Python or PHP > > Fluent in English > > Excellent attention to detail > > > > LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read and interpret documents > such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure > manuals. Ability to write routine reports and > correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups > or individuals. > > > > > PHYSICAL DEMANDS & WORK ENVIRONMENT: The physical demands > and work environment described here are representative of those that must be > met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this > job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with > disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties > of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, sit, walk, and > reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. Must be able to perform > repetitive motions 75% of the time. Must be able to lift 15 > lbs. > > > > > APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Send a resume and cover letter to > archives at calacademy.org no later than 5pm PST, Monday, April 29, 2013. > > > > > The California Academy of Sciences is an Equal Opportunity Employer and > welcomes applications from individuals who will contribute to its diversity. > > > > > The California Academy of Sciences is a non-smoking facility. There is also no > smoking in Golden Gate Park. > > > > Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/7439/ From mweaver at asis.org Mon Apr 15 13:37:07 2013 From: mweaver at asis.org (Melissa Weaver) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:37:07 -0700 Subject: [Rdap] RDAP13 attendees, still time to share your thoughts in our post Summit survey Message-ID: Thank you for attending the Research Data Access & Preservation Summit, please help us plan and improve the event by sharing your thoughts in our online survey http://bit.ly/RDAP13eval For everyone: There is still time to consider volunteering for 2014 RDAP planning committee by sending an email to rdapinfo at asis.org. One location option is sunny San Diego around March 25-30. You can view slides of the presentations at http://www.slideshare.net/tag/rdap13 We'll continue to update our website as we transform from 2013 to 2014 and beyond. 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Registration is now open for the 2013 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). http://jcdl2013.org/registration Main Early Registration -- Deadline May 27, 2013 * ACM/IEEE/SIG Members - $600 * Non-ACM/IEEE/SIG Members - $750 * ACM/IEEE/SIG Student - $380 * Lifetime Members - $360 * Non-member Student - $450 Main Late/Onsite Registration * ACM/IEEE/SIG Members - $720 * Non-ACM/IEEE/SIG Members - $900 * ACM/IEEE/SIG Student - $475 * Lifetime Members - $475 * Non-member Student - $550 For more information of registration, including information on this years pre- and post-conference workshops and tutorials, please visit http://www.jcdl2013.org/. Members of the RDAP Community may also be interested in the DLF sponsored CurateCamp and in the 2nd International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications (WOSP 2013) to be held in conjunction with JCDL 2013. Additionally we will also host a part of the DataCite Annual Meeting in conjunction with JCDL. The JCDL is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical and social issues. This year's conference will be held in Indianapolis, IN from July 22-26. We welcome submissions on the wide range of topics of interest in Digital Libraries worldwide. On behalf of the JCDL 2013 Planning Committee, Best, Robert ********************************** Robert H. McDonald Associate Dean for Library Technologies Deputy Director-Data to Insight Center, Pervasive Technology Institute Indiana University 1320 East 10th Street Herman B Wells Library 234 Bloomington, IN 47405 Phone: 812-856-4834 Email: rhmcdona at indiana.edu Skype: rhmcdonald AIM: rhmcdonald1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Tue Apr 23 11:32:19 2013 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:32:19 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] PASIG*DC -- Register for May 22-24 Conference and May 21 Workshops References: <6C981D47-49E9-47FF-ACE2-A43B782936AB@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <201304231532.r3NFWLox012223@mail.asis.org> From rhill at asis.org Tue Apr 23 11:37:57 2013 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:37:57 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] PASIG*DC -- Register for May 22-24 Conference and May 21 Workshops Message-ID: <201304231537.r3NFbvqD012598@mail.asis.org> [Apologies for prior blank message. ASIST is managing this meeting. Dick Hill] PASIG, the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group, will be holding its next international meeting from May 22-24, 2013 at the Washington Court Hotel in Washington DC. Conference registration and discounted hotel rooms are available via the conference web site:? http://www.preservationandarchivingsig.org/events/2013/PASIGDC2013.html Agenda PASIG meetings are highly interactive, highly-rated, single-tracked events, designed to identify and drive the exchange of designs and best practices in digital preservation and archiving. The three day agenda will feature presentations, panel discussions, lightning talks and ad hoc working groups from practitioners, researchers and industry experts on... ? Digital Preservation Bootcamp ? Long-term Digital Preservation Storage Futures? ? Preservation Research, Breakthroughs and Futures? ? Practitioners Knowledge Exchange ? Audiovisual Media Preservation -- A Deep Dive ? Fixity: Moving Beyond Theory to Evidence-Based Best Practices ? Emulation & Virtualization as Practical Methods for Digital Preservation ? Federal Initiatives in Digital Preservation ? Preservation of Research Data ? Ad Hoc Lightning Talks, Matchmaking, Working Group & Breakout Sessions You will find a full agenda for the meeting, below.? Workshops On Tuesday, May 21st, there will be three, free workshops. Full agendas for each one, are below.? 1) Oracle Technology Day: This is a free, full-day event and is open to Oracle customers, prospects, employees, and partners. It will focus on Oracle a) products relevant to PASIG attendees, b) positioning, c) tiered architectures, d) Big Data, records, and unstructured content management solutions, and e) database features for permanent access.? 2)?Islandora Workshop (Half day, morning): Islandora provides integration between Fedora and Drupal, with custom solution packs to address the needs of multiple data types and collections. This session will review the project's development and current features, examples of productions sites, an update on the community and membership, as well as provide guidance for basic installation and configuration. 3)?The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) (Half day, afternoon) is being built to serve as a preservation backbone for digital information for research and scholarship. This half-day session will provide a deep dive into the DPN design, architecture and service model. DPN Member organizations are especially encouraged to send technical representatives to this interactive workshop, to review, discuss and help season the emerging framework with DPN's core technical team.? Sponsors This community event is driven by the members of PASIG, particularly the steering group and speakers, and is made possible in part by the support of?sponsors Oracle, discoverygarden and E-Vault. If you want to contribute or sponsor, please contact Art Pasquinelli (art.pasquinelli at oracle.com) and Tom Cramer (tcramer at stanford.edu) asap. Register at:? http://www.preservationandarchivingsig.org/events/2013/PASIGDC2013.html ---xxx---xxx---xxx---xxx---xxx---xxx---xxx---xxx---xxx---xxx---xxx---xxx--- Full Agenda PASIG Day 1: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 8:00 AM? Registration? 8:30 AM? Digital Preservation Bootcamp?-- Optional Session Training in concepts, issues, tools, strategies & approaches for Digital Preservation and Archiving. This half day block of training sessions will focus on an introduction to the field and needs in digital preservation, and give attendees a foundation of concepts, terminology, standards and tools used broadly in the field. This half day of ?Digital Preservation 101? is open to practitioners of all levels, but will be targeted specifically for those looking to gain exposure to the field.? - Digital Preservation 101: The Theory and Practice -- Tom Cramer, Stanford University - Digital Preservation Trends and Issues -- Leslie Johnston, Library of Congress - Best Practices in Preserving Common Content Types -? Images: Robert Buckley, University of Rochester -? Media: Kara Van Malssen, AudioVisual Preservation Solutions -? Office documents: Jay Gattuso, New Zealand National Library - Design Principles for Digital Preservation Systems ? Stephen Abrams, California Digital Library - PREMIS: Practical Strategies for Preservation Metadata -- TBA Noon Registration & Lunch? 1:00 PM PASIG Begins: Welcome - Welcome & Introduction to PASIG -- Art Pasquinelli, Director, Digital Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation, Oracle? - Agenda Review and Invitation to Participate -- Tom Cramer, Stanford University 1:15 PM? Long-term Digital Preservation Storage Futures? A state-of-the-art review of storage technology and industry trends with a focus on applying these developments to the unique needs of digital preservation and archiving, and systems at scale. This session will feature a nuts-and-bolts review of the realities of integrating with cloud-based stores for digital preservation systems: what are the realities of getting content in, managing it once there, and then getting it out again. ? - A Report on the Annual Library of Congress Storage and LOoC Storage Directions -- Thomas Youkel, Library of Congress - Storage Trends and LTFS --?Chris Wood, Director, Axiom Product Management, Oracle - Modelling Cloud Storage: Technical and Economic Issues -- Tom Creighton, FamilySearch - Glacier Unveiled -- Andrew Woods, DuraSpace - Cloud Preservation Services -- Amar Kapadia, Senior Director, E-Vault - Open Q&A? 3:00 PM ? 3:30 PM? BREAK? 3:30 PM? Preservation Research, Breakthroughs and Futures? Current developments and trends in digital preservation research and practice; an opportunity to engage in technology transfer from?researchers to practitioners and industry.? - Information Retention: A Database Perspective --?Kevin Jernigan, Sr. Director Product Management, Oracle? - The Digital Preservation Network (DPN): Architecture and Preservation Services -- Sebastien Korner, Univ. of Michigan - Organizing Knowledge Initiative, IASA-OK -- Guy Marechal, Senior Advisor, TITAN 4:30 - 5:30 PM Introductions, Matchmaking & Breakout Scheduling ?Minute Madness? introductions of attendees (optional), laying out who is participating in the meeting, what they?re hoping to get out of the meeting, and some on-the-fly matchmaking of attendees with like interests.? 6:00 PM Evening Reception PASIG Day 2: Thursday, May 23, 2013 9:00 AM Preservation & Archiving Architectures and Operations:?Practitioners Knowledge Exchange Structured presentation and comparison of preservation systems design and operation. Detailed overviews of PASIG community members' systems, operating practices, and lessons learned, with an emphasis on digital preservation from different vertical domains (e.g., education, research, energy, health care, aerospace, etc.) - Preservation and Access Infrastructure: A Case Study of Major League Baseball -- Dirk Van Dall, VP, MLB Advanced Media - USC Digital Repository -- Sam Gustman, Assoc. Dean and CTO, USC Libraries and USC Shoah Foundation Institute -?Architecture for Data Integrity -- Scott Rife, Library of Congress 10:15 AM ? 10:45 AM? BREAK? 10:45 AM? Lightning Talks? Participatory presentations on late breaking developments, compelling breakthroughs or burning issues from the PASIG Community? 11:30 AM? BREAK / Poster Session Mixer Noon Lunch 1:00 PM Audiovisual Media Preservation: A Deep Dive An exploration into the unique requirements and successful strategies of media preservation. The long-term preservation of digital audiovisual media presents a range of complex technological, organisational, and standards-related issues. This recurring PASIG session organized by the PrestoCentre Foundation, will focus on research efforts, technological solutions and practical challenges in audiovisual preservation. The session targets both media owners and service providers.? - Marius Snyders, Managing Director, PrestoCentre Foundation - Reconsidering Checksums for Audiovisual Preservation -- Dave Rice, Archivist, City University of New York - The Cost of Inaction -- Chris Lacinak, President, AudioVisual Preservation Solutions - Islandora as a Video/Audio Preservation Framework -- Mark Leggott, Islandora Founder & Univ. Librarian, University of Prince Edward Island 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM BREAK? 3:00 PM? Fixity -- Moving Beyond Theory to Evidence-Based Best Practices Fixity services are fundamental to digital preservation?they underpin bit level preservation. Proven best practices in fixity auditing and repair are much harder to identify, though, and best practices vary based on storage media (disk, tape or cloud). This panel will give an overview of different approaches and identify best practices best on actual operating experiences.? (4x12 min with 12 min discussion) - Facilitator: Tom Creighton, CTO, Family Search - Securing and Scaling Fixity Checking -- Mike Smorul, Lead Programmer, ADAPT Project, UMIACS, U. of Maryland - Jay Gattuso, Digital Preservation Analyst, New Zealand National Library - Tom Wultich, Director, Tape Product Management, Oracle 4:00 PM Emulation & Virtualization as Digital Preservation Strategies Format migration dominated the early years of digital preservation planning. Virtualization technology made leaps and bounds in the last decade, though, and leveraging emulation for digital preservation has moved from a theoretical possibility to a practical reality by a few pioneering institutions. This presentation set will provide a 1.) demonstration of emulation in action, 2.) overview the track record of developments (especially from Europe) on emulation-for-preservation frameworks, and 3.) explore current efforts and emerging opportunities in emulation for all practitioners. ?? - Facilitator: Bram Van Der Werf, Executive Director, Open Planets Foundation - Effective and Easy Emulation -- Ben Fino-Radin, Digital Conservator, Rhizome - Preserving and Providing Access to Complex Objects -- Natasa Milic-Frayling, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research - Digital Forensics -- Cal Lee, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina Day 3: Friday, October 19, 2012 9:00 AM? Federal Initiatives in Digital Preservation This panel will review the current practices at three major federal institutions in digital preservation, and provide a thought on where each is going individually, and the direction of digital preservation on a national scale.? - Planning for Archiving -- Thornton Staples, the Smithsonian - Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) -- Carl Fleischauer, Library of Congress - Digital Preservation and the National Science Foundation -- Myron Gutmann, NSF 10:15 AM ? 10:45 AM? BREAK 10:45 AM Preservation of Research Data Demonstration of current live projects of preserving research data in action. ? ?-Preservation and Curation of University Research Data -- David Minor, Interim Head, Research Data Curation Program, UCSD Library - A Multi-Campus Infrastructure for Research Data Management, Preservation and Access -- Chris Jordan, Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) - SEAD: Sustainable Environment - Actionable Data, A Datanet Project -- Jim Myer, RPI - Preserving Research Data -- Jacob Farmer, CTO, Cambridge Computers 12:00 PM Adjourn ============================================================================ ============= Tuesday, May 21st -- Workshops Islandora Workshop?(Half day, morning) The Islandora project (islandora.ca) is growing steadily, with new functionality added with each release. The project has also grown beyond the traditional library borders, especially when it comes to the stewardship of research data. Islandora provides integration between Fedora and Drupal, with custom solution packs to address the needs of multiple data types and collections. This session will review the project's development and current features, exmples of productions sites, an update on the community and membership, as well as provide guidance for basic installation and configuration. Speaker Bio: Mark Leggott is the founder of the Islandora project. As the UL for the University of Prince Edward Island, and the projects major architect. He has spoken at a number of conferences, and is the founder of the SAAS company (discoverygarden Inc.) providing services around Islandora software. The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) (Half day, afternoon)? DPN is being built to serve as a preservation backbone for digital information for research and scholarship. It knits together a handful of large-scale preservation repositories, which provide reciprocal, "dark" archiving services to each other. ?Together, the DPN Nodes form a heterogeneous network of secure, trustworthy digital archives, each operated under diverse geographical, organizational, financial, and technical regimes.?Robust (bit) auditing and repair functions ensure the fixity of content over time. Intellectual property agreements ensure the succession of rights to use of the content through the Network in the event of dissolution or divestment of content by the original depositor and/or archive. This half-day session will provide a deep dive into the DPN design, architecture and service model. DPN Member organizations are especially encouraged to send technical representatives to this interactive workshop, to review, discuss and help season the emerging framework with DPN's core technical team. Oracle Technology Day - May 21, 2013, Washington Court Hotel, Washington, D.C. 8:30am - 9:00am - Registration 9:00am - 9:45am Introductions, Oracle's?Long-term Data Retention Positioning - Art Pasquinelli, Director, Digital?Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation Storage Overview and Update 9:45am - 10:20am? Oracle Storage Overview and Positioning - Chris?Wood, Director, Axiom Product Management 10:20am - 10:35am? Break 10:35am - 11:35am? Tape Overview and Directions and Optimization -?Michael O'Donnell, Director Hardware Development, Tom Wultich, Director,?Tape?Product Management 11:35am - 12:00pm? Storage Archive Manager (SAM) Product Update and?Directions - Dan Deppen, Senior Product Manager 12:00pm - 1:00pm - Lunch Customer Participation Session 1:00pm - 2:30pm Customer/Partner Presentations Session and Audience?Input This will include several short presentations by thought-leaders?such as FamilySearch, Library of Congress, Bibliotheque nationale de France and?then open audience discussion on projects and issues. Designing Architectures 2:30pm - 3:10pm Oracle Disk Product Overview and Big Data?Architectures - Kevin Kalmbach, Lead Storage Architect 3:10pm - 3:30pm - Break? 3:30pm - 4:00pm? Information Retention and the Oracle Database -?Kevin Jernigan,??Senior Director,?Database Performance Product Management,?System Technologies Division ? 4:00pm - 4:30pm Content,?Repository, and Records Management with WebCenter Content Management 11g - Marc?Kelberman, Principal Sales?Consultant 4:30pm - 5:00pm? Optimized Solutions: Putting It All Together - Donna?Harland, Principal Product Manager 5:00pm - 5:30pm? Insights from the Day and Wrap Up Discussion - RB?Hooks, Hardware CTO, Office of the CTO, Oracle National Security Group __________ Richard Hill ASIS&T Executive Director 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 rhill at asis.org From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Mon Apr 29 10:04:59 2013 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:04:59 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] =?windows-1252?q?Fwd=3A_REGISTER_for_DuraSpace_Hot_Topics?= =?windows-1252?q?=3A_VIVO=96Research_Discovery_and_Networking?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* April 29, 2013 Contact: Carol Minton Morris cmmorris at duraspace.org Read it online: http://bit.ly/Zfzi3M *Announcing Series Five in the DuraSpace Hot Topics Webinar Series: **VIVO?Research Discovery and Networking* *Winchester, MA* DuraSpace is pleased to announce the latest Hot Topics Webinar Series, VIVO?Research Discovery and Networking. DuraSpace web seminars fill up fast so be sure to reserve your spot today! *Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series Series Five: VIVO?Research Discovery and Networking* * Curated by Dean Krafft, Chief Technology Strategist at Cornell University Library and Chair of the VIVO-DuraSpace Incubator Project Management Committee.* VIVO is an open community, an information model, and an open source semantic web application supporting the advancement of scholarship by integrating and sharing information about scholars, their activities and outputs at a single institution. Discovery of related work and expertise is supported across a distributed multi-institutional network. VIVO supports descriptions of the full academic context of scholars and researchers in any discipline, and it makes explicit the connections of researchers and scholars to their grants, publications, courses, creative works, co-authors, datasets, performances, research instruments, projects, and much more. VIVO is joining DuraSpace as the VIVO Project, via the DuraSpace incubation program, to realize our shared mission in support of research and scholarship through an established legal and financial framework compatible with VIVO?s own vision and goals. This webinar series will introduce VIVO and the VIVO community, provide views into VIVO implementations at three quite different institutions, and conclude with a more technical session describing the VIVO ontologies, linked open data, and the community processes supporting VIVO as a new project with DuraSpace. There are 3 webinars in this series: *Overview of VIVO* Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 11:00amEDT Register here: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=5iy95gcab&oeidk=a07e7dhe5t2245853e6 VIVO is an open-source research discovery tool that integrates information about researchers with additional context from their relationships to grants, publications, research facilities, projects, events, affiliations, and with other researchers. VIVO stores this information as a network for browsing or searching in a single tool across a university or other institution. This webinar provides an introduction to VIVO, to the open-source technologies and standards it builds on, and to the community of people and organizations in academia, government, non-profit, and corporate world engaged in VIVO and the exchange and interoperability of VIVO-compatible data. Highlights from VIVO implementations will include examples of VIVO's current and potential connections to related tools including institutional repositories, dataset registries, research resource discovery systems, and social networking platforms. *Case Studies: VIVO at Colorado, Brown, Duke, * *and Weill Cornell Medical College* Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 11:00amEDT Register here: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=5iy95gcab&oeidk=a07e7dhjyhnf3d60958 This second webinar in the VIVO series will highlight VIVO activity at four adopting institutions ? the University of Colorado Boulder, Brown University, Duke University, and Weill Cornell Medical College. Presenters from each institution will show how VIVO has been configured, branded, and extended to meet local needs, and then briefly describe the teams implementing VIVO, VIVO's fit with other tools and services in their institutional setting, and the road map ahead locally and together with the VIVO community. *VIVO Technical Deep Dive* Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 11:00amEDT Register here: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=5iy95gcab&oeidk=a07e7dhlukj4296debb The third and final webinar will focus on technology and participation. We will look under the hood at the semantic technologies underlying VIVO, including the VIVO ontology and how the application architecture uses ontologies for configuration and extensibility. VIVO operates as a community organized around weekly or biweekly open ontology, implementation and development calls, with two significant annual face-to-face events that increasingly bring together a wider research networking community focused on open-source tools, internationally-driven standards efforts, and interoperability through linked open data. -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: