From pschaeffer at nescent.org Wed May 1 06:21:18 2013 From: pschaeffer at nescent.org (Peggy Schaeffer) Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 11:21:18 +0100 Subject: [Rdap] Dryad news: redesigned website, membership meeting Message-ID: <5180EC9E.6020407@nescent.org> /[Apologies for any duplicate messages you receive; please share these announcements with your networks.//]/ We are delighted to announce some recent and upcoming developments at Dryad. First, we recently launched a redesigned websiteat http://datadryad.orgwith lots of new content. Some of the highlights include: * Information about the recently announced submission fees and pricing plans which will become effective Sept. 2013: https://www.datadryad.org/pages/pricing * An Ideas Forum where you can let us know what features you'd like us to work on next, vote or comment on ideas submitted by others, and check back to see our responses: https://datadryad.uservoice.com * An Integrated Journals page that helps depositors see which journals are coordinating the submission process with Dryad, figure out which stage in the publication process to submit data for your chosen journal, and more: https://www.datadryad.org/pages/integratedJournals Second, all Dryad members, prospective members, and interested parties are invited to the first annual membership meetingin Oxford, UK on Friday, May 24. This is part of a series of exciting events in Oxford that week spotlighting trends in scholarly communication with an emphasis on research data, including a Symposium on the Now and Future of Data Publication on Wednesday, May 22nd, and an ORCID Outreach Meeting with a special joint Dryad-ORCID Symposium on Research Attribution on Thursday, May 23rd. Remote attendance will be available. For more information, please see: https://www.datadryad.org/pages/membershipMeeting As you may be aware, Dryad is a nonprofit organization. Membership is open to a diverse range of stakeholder organizations, including but not limited to journals, scientific societies, publishers, research institutions, libraries, and funding organizations. To learn more about becoming a member, please see: https://www.datadryad.org/pages/membershipOverview If you work with a journal, society, publisher, library, funder or other research organization and would like to learn more about how Dryad can help you support the data publishing needs of your researchers, and how you can help support Dryad, please do not hesitate to contact us: http://www.datadryad.org/feedback. Best regards, Laura Wendell lwendell at datadryad.org Executive Director, Dryad -- Peggy Schaeffer, Communications Coordinator, Dryad pschaeffer at DataDryad.org Dryad repository:http://datadryad.org Dryad documentation:http://wiki.datadryad.org Blog:http://blog.datadryad.org Twitter:http://twitter.com/datadryad -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Some of the highlights include: * Information about the recently announced submission fees and pricing plans which will become effective Sept. 2013: https://www.datadryad.org/pages/pricing * An Ideas Forum where you can let us know what features you'd like us to work on next, vote or comment on ideas submitted by others, and check back to see our responses: https://datadryad.uservoice.com * An Integrated Journals page that helps depositors see which journals are coordinating the submission process with Dryad, figure out which stage in the publication process to submit data for your chosen journal, and more: https://www.datadryad.org/pages/integratedJournals Second, all Dryad members, prospective members, and interested parties are invited to the first annual membership meetingin Oxford, UK on Friday, May 24. This is part of a series of exciting events in Oxford that week spotlighting trends in scholarly communication with an emphasis on research data, including a Symposium on the Now and Future of Data Publication on Wednesday, May 22nd, and an ORCID Outreach Meeting with a special joint Dryad-ORCID Symposium on Research Attribution on Thursday, May 23rd. Remote attendance will be available. For more information, please see: https://www.datadryad.org/pages/membershipMeeting As you may be aware, Dryad is a nonprofit organization. Membership is open to a diverse range of stakeholder organizations, including but not limited to journals, scientific societies, publishers, research institutions, libraries, and funding organizations. To learn more about becoming a member, please see: https://www.datadryad.org/pages/membershipOverview If you work with a journal, society, publisher, library, funder or other research organization and would like to learn more about how Dryad can help you support the data publishing needs of your researchers, and how you can help support Dryad, please do not hesitate to contact us: http://www.datadryad.org/feedback. Best regards, Laura Wendell lwendell at datadryad.org Executive Director, Dryad -- Peggy Schaeffer, Communications Coordinator, Dryad pschaeffer at DataDryad.org Dryad repository:http://datadryad.org Dryad documentation:http://wiki.datadryad.org Blog:http://blog.datadryad.org Twitter:http://twitter.com/datadryad -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Thu May 2 11:25:23 2013 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 11:25:23 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] Fwd: NEWS RELEASE: DuraCloud Now Offers Low Cost Glacier Storage In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* May 2, 2013 Contact: Carol Minton Morris cmmorris at duraspace.org Read it online: http://bit.ly/10uMiSg *DuraCloud Now Offers Low Cost Glacier Storage!* *Secondary storage in Amazon Glacier offers customers more cost effective long-term storage options* *Winchester, MA* Today the DuraSpace organization announced that DuraCloud, an archiving and preservation service, is now fully integrated with Amazon Glacier (a low-cost storage service). DuraCloud customers can now choose to store and archive their content in Glacier, in addition to Amazon S3, San Diego Supercomputer Cloud, and Rackspace. DuraCloud is the only service that gives users the choice and transparency of where to store their content while providing a suite of services that ensure the content's long term accessibility. The new annual subscription plans and prices have been posted on the DuraCloud web site: http://duracloud.org/pricing. *What is Amazon Glacier:* - low-cost storage service - secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup - optimized for data that is infrequently accessed *Key DuraCloud benefits :* - automatic synchronization between primary and secondary copy - web access to all copies stored in DuraCloud - simplified pricing *For more information about the DuraCloud and Glacier integration, please plan to attend the "Using the DuraCloud Service to archive content in Glacier" webinar on Thursday, May 16th at 1pm ET.* Michele Kimpton, CEO of DuraSpace, Bill Branan, DuraCloud Architect, and Tim Harder, Business Development Manager at Amazon Web Services, will discuss the facts about Glacier, how Glacier works as part of the DuraCloud service, and current use cases in government and academia. *Registration is required * in order to attend the webinar. Give DuraCloud an instant trial run by signing up for a trial account TODAY (http://www.duracloud.org/trial-account-request). This is an opportunity for you to find out how cloud storage and services can help you plan for meeting your back-up, preservation, streaming, and collaboration needs now and for the future. DuraCloud is the only "one click to the cloud" managed cloud service that provides you with instant access to multiple locations and providers. Take advantage of DuraCloud and Amazon Glacier today! If you have any questions please contact us at info at duracloud.org. -- 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: From Donna.Kafel at umassmed.edu Thu May 2 16:30:52 2013 From: Donna.Kafel at umassmed.edu (Kafel, Donna) Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 20:30:52 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] New issue of JeSLIB out! Theme is Informationists in Research Message-ID: <796428EE4BB0764AB85A62F1BE459CE50876F1@ummscsmbx02.ad.umassmed.edu> **Please excuse cross-postings!** Dear Colleagues, The latest issue of the Journal of eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB) is now out! This issue focuses on the role of the Informationist or Embedded Librarian in the scientific research process. This theme comes from the Professional Development Day conference, Embedded with the Scientists: Librarians' Roles in the Research Process, that was hosted by the Lamar Soutter Library, UMass Medical School, in conjunction with NN/LM New England (National Network of Libraries of Medicine New England) on Nov. 7, 2012. Featured in this issue are articles by health science librarians who are working as informationists in NLM Administrative Supplements for Informationist Services in NIH-funded Research Projects , and Chris Shaffer's (University Librarian and Associate Professor at Oregon Health and Science University) keynote address, The Role of the Library in the Research Enterprise. Also, starting with this latest issue, JeSLIB is experimenting with data from Altmetric to display article level metrics for each of our articles. The Altmetric score is a measure of the attention an article has received online, including social media mentions, news coverage, and online reference manager counts. Contact JESLIB's editors and let us know what you think about Altmetric! Table of Contents Volume 2, Issue 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Editorial Highlighting the Informationist As a Data Librarian Embedded in a Research Team by Elaine R. Martin http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol2/iss1/1/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Letter to the Editor Informationist Careers for Librarians-A Brief History of NLM's Involvement by Valerie Florance, PhD http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol2/iss1/2/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Video Article Embedded with the Scientists: the UCLA Experience by Lisa M. Federer http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol2/iss1/3/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full-Length Papers The Role of the Library in the Research Enterprise by Christopher J. Shaffer http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol2/iss1/4/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Science in Action Welch Informationist Collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Radiology by Victoria H. Goode and Blair Anton http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol2/iss1/5/ A Librarian by Any Other Name: The Role of the Informationist on a Clinical Research Team by Sally A. Gore http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol2/iss1/6/ Informationist Role: Clinical Data Management in Auditory Research by Karen L. Hanson, Theodora A. Bakker, Mario A. Svirsky, Arlene C. Neuman, and Neil Rambo. http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol2/iss1/7/ NLM Informationist Grant - Web Assisted Tobacco Intervention for Community College Students by Linda Hasman and Donna Berryman http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol2/iss1/8/ Informationist Support for a Study of the Role of Proteases and Peptides in Cancer Pain by Alisa Surkis, Aileen McCrillis, Richard McGowan, Jeffrey Williams, Brian L. Schmidt, Markus Hardt, and Neil Rambo http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol2/iss1/9/ When Informationists Get Involved: The CHICA-GIS Project by Elizabeth C. Whipple, Jere D. Odell, Rick K. 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URL: From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Tue May 7 09:38:53 2013 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 09:38:53 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] Fwd: NEWS RELEASE: DuraSpace Launches Sponsorship Campaign: Invest in Our Digital Future In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* May 7, 2013 Contact: Carol Minton Morris cmmorris at duraspace.org Read it online: http://bit.ly/10g4XkX *Do Your Part to Invest in Our Digital Future: Become a Sponsor of DuraSpace * *Winchester, MA* Today the DuraSpace organization announced the launch of the 2013 Sponsorship Program encouraging users of DSpace and Fedora technologies for durable access to invest in our digital future by becoming DuraSpace sponsors. The annual campaign raises funds to support the continued advancement of the DSpace and Fedora open source software which is available free of charge. DuraSpace relies on financial support from the organizations that directly benefit from using DSpace and Fedora to continue to meet the changing needs of our communities. ?The challenge of preserving academic content is too great for any one institution to tackle alone?, says Karin Wittenborg, University Librarian, University of Virginia. ?DuraSpace fosters collaborative activities and open-source solutions to ensure that knowledge will be accessible to future generations." DuraSpace Community Sponsorship information: http://duraspace.org/sponsors *Looking into the Future of Fedora and DSpace* A new Platinum category of sponsorship has been added for members of the community who are DuraSpace Sponsors and want to contribute directly to the Fedora Futures (Fedora Futures blog) project. Platinum sponsors receive all the benefits of becoming a Gold Sponsor and in addition are represented on the Fedora Advisory Board. This community initiative began in late 2012 (read more here) and now has nine founding sponsors who are providing funds, developers, and oversight to make significant improvements to the Fedora platform over the next three years. Other DuraSpace Sponsors have joined the effort to offer similar support and form an Advisory Board that will influence the ongoing direction of the work. A similar DSpace community initiative is underway following the March 2013 DuraSpace Summit meeting. A group of institutional library managers will create the first draft of a vision and high-level roadmap statement to inform the future direction of the DSpace project. At the same time a group of DSpace sponsors will be working on plans for improving governance and funding. *Leadership, outreach and strategic partnerships* The combined benefits of technical leadership, outreach and professional development, collaborations and strategic partnerships on behalf of DuraSpace communities have resulted in ongoing development and deployment of open source technologies that are used to provide durable, persistent access to digital data. Community collaborators in these efforts include highly respected academic institutions, government agencies, and scientific and cultural organizations. DuraSpace works directly with open source software projects, advocacy groups and corporate partners to build the capacity to preserve our shared digital heritage. DuraSpace is an active participant in the Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust), Digital Preservation Network (DPN), International Open Repositories Conference, Internet2, and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA). For more information about what DuraSpace does for the digital access and preservation communities, visit http://duraspace.org/whatwedoprojects. Please feel free to contact Michele Kimpton at mkimpton at duraspace.org or Valorie Hollister, Director of Community Programs at vhollister at duraspace.org with questions about the DuraSpace 2013 Community Sponsorship Program. *About DuraSpace* DuraSpace (http://duraspace.org) is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization providing leadership and innovation for open technologies that promote durable, persistent access to digital data. We collaborate with academic, scientific, cultural, and technology communities by supporting projects and creating services to help ensure that current and future generations have access to our collective digital heritage. Our values are expressed in our organizational byline, "Committed to our digital future." DuraSpace supported open technology projects provide long-term, durable access to and discovery of digital assets. DSpace and Fedora are two of the most widely-used repository solutions in the world with more than fifteen hundred institutions that use and help develop these open source software repository platforms. DuraSpace also provides innovative solutions for the digital preservation community to meet today?s access and preservation challenges with subscription services that include DuraCloud , an easy and cost effective way to archive, share and manage content in the cloud and DSpaceDirect , a low-cost, hosted repository service due to launch in the summer of 2013. -- 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: From janeg at email.unc.edu Tue May 14 16:34:48 2013 From: janeg at email.unc.edu (Greenberg, Jane) Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 20:34:48 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] Please participate (very brief survey!) for data contributors, curators, administrators, repository developers Message-ID: <672DA93E2CFAE64AA033720211A2617F29311583@ITS-MSXMBS5F.ad.unc.edu> Greetings all, (Please participate, and feel free to forward to other relevant lists) The following survey examines controlled vocabulary use and challenges. The survey is for data contributors, curators, administrators, and/or repository developers. Completing the survey takes approximately 10 minutes (or less) to complete. To complete the survey, please click the following link: https://unc.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3fU0xOeRbH6jntb. NOTE: If you are unable to click on the link directly, please type the entire link into the address or location field at the top of your web browser, and press the ENTER key on your keyboard to access the survey. The survey is supported by a US DataNet/DataONE supplement to explore controlled vocabulary use within and across a broad spectrum of data repositories, including but not limited to the U.S. DataNet initiatives. Sincerely, Chelcie Rowell ---------------------------------------------------------------- Chelcie Rowell Research Assistant, Metadata Research Center School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chelcie at live.unc.edu | 770.862.0750 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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NOTE: If you are unable to click on the link directly, please type the entire link into the address or location field at the top of your web browser, and press the ENTER key on your keyboard to access the survey. The survey is supported by a US DataNet/DataONE supplement to explore controlled vocabulary use within and across a broad spectrum of data repositories, including but not limited to the U.S. DataNet initiatives. Sincerely, Chelcie Rowell ---------------------------------------------------------------- Chelcie Rowell Research Assistant, Metadata Research Center School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chelcie at live.unc.edu | 770.862.0750 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rpalma at man.poznan.pl Tue May 14 08:47:01 2013 From: rpalma at man.poznan.pl (Raul Palma) Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 14:47:01 +0200 Subject: [Rdap] Final CfP and deadline extension: 1st Intl. Workshop on Digital Preservation of Research Methods and Artefacts (DPRMA 2013) Message-ID: *** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 20th MAY 2013 *** Final Call for Papers 1st International Workshop on the Digital Preservation of Research Methods and Artefacts (DPRMA 2013) http://dprma.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ Proceedings published in ACM ICPS 25th July 2013, Indianapolis, USA A full day workshop hosted in conjunction with JCDL 2013 BACKGROUND The process of research in both the sciences and humanities has, and continues, to undergo significant change in addressing the needs of our ever more digital world. Researchers are adapting to the opportunities presented by working at scale with increasingly large datasets, creating methodologies and tooling for assistance and automation, and undertaking multi-disciplinary collaboration with colleagues and specialisations distributed around the globe. This brings with it challenges for the capture, publication, and preservation of research output. In this world a single document or journal paper -- perhaps by a single author with a narrow subject focussed bibliography -- is no longer sufficient for useful encapsulation of the complete research output. This is particularly the case when considering the need to disseminate, reproduce and reuse methods and findings as the foundation of ongoing scholarly research and academic discourse. WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES This workshop will consider how Digital Libraries can adapt to meet these needs. Starting with the complex digital objects needed to store the multi-format artefacts such as datasets, workflows, results and publications, the workshop will discuss how they they be captured, stored, associated, retrieved, and visualised. Can, or should, Digital Libraries address the needs of scale presented by big data directly and wholly, or play a well-defined role within an ecosystem of interoperable services? What are the challenges for curation of dynamic resources often more akin to software than documents, where iterative experiments comprise of changing datasets, codes, and authors? What additional research context should be preserved in addition to traditional dissemination mechanisms? What models and semantics can capture this context, and what role can provenance, versioning, and dependency analysis play in their preservation? How will researchers access and reuse these preserved artefacts? IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline (extended): 20th May 2013 (23:59 Samoa Standard Time, UTC-11) Notification of acceptance: 10th June 2013 Camera ready: 1st July 2013 Workshop: 25th July 2013 TOPICS Topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to: - differing notions of reproducibility in digital research; their requirements and the role Digital Libraries can play - case studies of Digital Libraries preservation role for research context in specific fields - guidelines, policy, or methodologies on preservation of research context for data and methods - re-evaluation and re-computation of preserved methods and results; repetition and extension; re-use and sharing for future research - provenance, quality, privacy and trust of experimental information; its role in the preservation of research in individual, research group and institutional contexts - relationships between research artefacts and (nano-)publications preservation and conservation of datasets and methods (e.g. Research Data Archives, workflows) - preservation at scale (scalability of Digital Libraries for big data) - preservation of end-to-end semantics through the research lifecycle (from lab bench to library) - semantic models and representations for aggregation, description, annotation, and preservation of research context; support for scientific discourse and collaboration - identifiers for artefacts (context, data, software, publications) including in a bibliographic context (e.g. data citation) - integration, assistance, and automation of artefact capture and curation - indexing, querying, retrieval, visualisation and citation of research contexts (e.g. methods and artefacts) - interchange and interoperability of data, methods, and context (encodings, APIs, standardisation, etc.) - versioning and lifecycle approaches to research data and methods; their applicability to preservation - software and data dependencies required for preservation and reproducibility; methods for expressing and evaluating these - application and incorporation of Linked Data in research archives SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We invite full papers (8 pages) or short / position papers (2-4 pages); submissions will be evaluated through peer review by the programme committee with a minimum of two reviews per paper. Please produce your paper using the ACM template and submit to DPRMA2013 on EasyChair by 6th May 2013 (see Important Dates above). Proceedings will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and the ACM Digital Library. ACM template: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates Submissions: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dprma2013 Email: dprma2013 at easychair.org WORKSHOP ORGANISATION Chairs: David De Roure (University of Oxford) Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology) Organising Committee: Kevin Page (University of Oxford) Jun Zhao (University of Oxford) Publicity & Proceedings: Raul Palma (Pozna? Supercomputing and Networking Center) Programme Committee: Robert Sanderson, Los Alamos National Laboratory Paolo Ciccarese, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital Cezary Mazurek, IChB PAN - PCSS Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, Intelligent Software Components (iSOCO) S.A. Khalid Belhajjame, University of Manchester David Giaretta, STFC Paolo Missier, Newcastle University Tim Clark, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School Wolfram Horstmann, Bodleian Libraries Oscar Corcho, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid Rudolf Mayer, Vienna University of Technology Christophe Gu?ret, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) Bram Van Der Werf, Open Planets Foundation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chodgson at niso.org Mon May 13 09:47:47 2013 From: chodgson at niso.org (Cynthia Hodgson) Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 09:47:47 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] NISO/DCMI Webinar: Semantic Mashups Across Large, Heterogeneous Institutions: Experiences from the VIVO Service Message-ID: <005901ce4fe0$74dcd060$5e967120$@org> Join NISO and DCMI for the next event in their joint webinar series for 2013. Webinar: Semantic Mashups Across Large, Heterogeneous Institutions: Experiences from the VIVO Service Date: May 22, 2013 Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern time) Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/vivo ============================================================================ === ABOUT THE WEBINAR VIVO is a semantic web application focused on discovering researchers and research publications in the life sciences. The service, which uses open-source software originally developed and implemented at Cornell University, operates by harvesting data about researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments from academic, administrative, professional, and funding sources. Using a built-in, editable ontology for describing things such as People, Courses, and Publications, data is transformed into a Semantic-Web-compliant form. VIVO provides automated and self-updating processes for improving data quality and authenticity. Starting with a classic Google-style search box, VIVO users can browse search results structured around people, research interests, courses, publications, and the like -- data that can be exposed for re-use by other systems in a machine-readable format. This webinar, held by a veteran at the Albert R. Mann Library Information Technology Services department at Cornell, where the VIVO project was born, presents the perspective of a software developer on the practicalities of building a high-quality Semantic-Web search service on existing data maintained in dozens of formats and software platforms at large, diverse institutions. The talk will highlight services that leverage the Semantic Web platform in innovative ways, e.g., for finding researchers based on the text content of a particular Web page and for visualizing networks of collaboration across institutions. SPEAKER John Fereira, a senior programmer/analyst and technology strategist at Cornell University, is a contributing member of the VIVO project team. He also consults on issues related to information technology in higher education with an emphasis on open-source, modular, distributed software systems and is currently working on systems based on VIVO software for international Agricultural Information systems communities. REGISTRATION Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on May 22, 2013 (the day of the webinar). Discounts are available for NISO and DCMI members and students. Can't make it on the webinar date/time? Register now and gain access to the recorded archive for one year. 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URL: From oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov Thu May 16 06:48:54 2013 From: oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov (Joe Hourcle) Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 06:48:54 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] Fwd: Registration open for JISC-BL DataCite Workshop - "Research data metrics for impact and citation" References: Message-ID: <6163015F-5548-478F-BC26-3ED9E847A2B8@grace.nascom.nasa.gov> As data citation has been a topic at the last few RDAP meetings, I thought this might be of interest (for those who aren't affected by the federal government's sequestration and can actually travel right now) -Joe Begin forwarded message: > From: Sarah Callaghan > Date: May 16, 2013 4:42:49 AM EDT > To: DATA-PUBLICATION at JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: FW: Registration open for JISC-BL DataCite Workshop - "Research data metrics for impact and citation" > Reply-To: sarah.callaghan at STFC.AC.UK > > For info > > From: JISC Managing Research Data Programme [mailto:JISCMRD at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Wilkinson, Caroline > Sent: 15 May 2013 17:04 > To: JISCMRD at JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: Registration open for JISC-BL DataCite Workshop - "Research data metrics for impact and citation" > > Dear All, > > Registration for the next JISC-British Library DataCite Workshop - "Research data metrics for impact and citation" - is now open. The workshop will take place on Friday 14th June in the British Library Conference Centre. You can register at http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/6646623229 > > About the Workshop: > Developing effective means of measuring the impact of data publication is essential if data is to become recognised as a first class research output. The field of data metrics is still in its infancy, although both established indexing services and 'altmetrics' providers are now offering services which measure aspects of data use and impact. > > In this workshop we will look at the role of metrics from the perspectives of various stakeholders and consider whether established means of evaluating the impact of journal articles can be applied equally to datasets and other non-traditional outputs. The role of the DOI as a tool for aiding citation and other measures of impact will also be considered alongside other metrics. > > Who should attend? > The workshop will provide an opportunity for those charged with managing research data to gain an overview of the current state of the metrics landscape, as well as to hear the views of a range of stakeholders on how research data should be measured. > A full programme is available on the registration page. > > Kind regards, > Caroline > > Caroline Wilkinson > Data Management Project Officer > Science, Technology and Medicine > The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB > Tel: 020 7412 7250 > Email: caroline.wilkinson at bl.uk > Web: www.bl.uk/datasets > Mendeley Group: bit.ly/BLdatacitation > > > > ************************************************** > To unsubscribe from the JISCMRD list go to: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=JISCMRD > ************************************************** > > -- > Scanned by iCritical. > From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Fri May 17 08:53:31 2013 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 08:53:31 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] Fwd: Final version of press release In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* * * May 17, 2013 Contact: Carol Minton Morris cmmorris at duraspace.org Read it online: http://bit.ly/YOlSyI *Fedora Futures Project Welcomes New Technical Lead* * * *Winchester, MA * The DuraSpace organization and the Fedora Futures Project are pleased to announce that Andrew Woods will take over as the new Technical Lead for Fedora effective May 15, 2013. In this role he will provide technical leadership for the Fedora Futures Project. Woods joined the DuraSpace organization in early 2009 as a Fedora committer. Since then he has helped establish the D.C. Area Fedora Users Group, been a project co-lead on DuraCloud, and worked in various technical and advisory capacities within DPN, APTrust, Chronopolis, and NDSA. The Fedora Futures project is currently underway with Edwin Shin, MediaShelf, coordinating development leading up to a planned alpha Fedora 4 release this summer. Recent work has been focused on running Fedora in a cluster to provide greater durability and performance. "We are thrilled to have Andrew Woods on board as our new Technical Lead for Fedora. Andrew brings impressive technical and leadership skills to Fedora that will be invaluable in advancing the goals of our Fedora Futures Project. We also want to thank Edwin Shin who served as Interim Project Manager and was instrumental in advancing the development of a planned alpha Fedora 4 release, expected in Summer 2013." said Robert Cartolano, AVP for Digital Programs and Technology Services Columbia University Libraries/Information Services. The fast-moving Fedora Futures initiative was started by members of the Fedora community to preserve the strengths of the Fedora architecture and community, address the need for robust and full-featured repository services, and to provide a successful platform for the next 5-10 years. Read more on the Fedora Futures blog: http://fcrepo.org/blog/2013/03/18/welcome-to-the-future/ Michele Kimpton, CEO DuraSpace said, "Andrew Woods is the best possible choice to lead Fedora into the next generation of services. He has established himself in the community as a respected technical contributor and collaborator on projects such as APTrust and DPN. His expertise and knowledge in the repository application space and deep knowledge of Fedora will make his transition to his new role seamless." The Fedora Futures Steering Committee is looking for project sponsors and in-kind contributions of developer time to meet project goals over the next three years. If you are interested in finding out about how to get involved please contact Jonathan Markow at jjmarkow at duraspace.org. *About DuraSpace* * * DuraSpace (http://duraspace.org) is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization providing leadership and innovation for open technologies that promote durable, persistent access to digital data. We collaborate with academic, scientific, cultural, and technology communities by supporting projects and creating services to help ensure that current and future generations have access to our collective digital heritage. Our values are expressed in our organizational byline, "Committed to our digital future." DuraSpace supported open technology projects provide long-term, durable access to and discovery of digital assets. DSpace and Fedora are two of the most widely-used repository solutions in the world with more than fifteen hundred institutions that use and help develop these open source software repository platforms. DuraSpace also provides innovative solutions for the digital preservation community to meet today?s access and preservation challenges with subscription services that include DuraCloud , an easy and cost effective way to archive, share and manage content in the cloud and DSpaceDirect , a low-cost, hosted repository service due to launch in the summer of 2013. -- 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: From oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov Tue May 21 08:40:23 2013 From: oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov (Joe Hourcle) Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 08:40:23 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] US National Academies' hearing on public access to federally funded research Message-ID: <3B42006F-3013-49A0-84F3-3A0F56C65490@grace.nascom.nasa.gov> (apologizes in advance, as I'm going to cross-post this to a few lists) For those who didn't catch it when it was live, the video has now been posted online: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/CurrentProjects/DBASSE_082378 There were two parts -- one was on access to journal articles, the other on the access to data. There's also a transcription for the publications portion. For some reason, for Safari on MacOS, the list of data videos stops on 'Jillian Wallis', but the last one should be 'John L. King' ... so if that happens to you (or you get no list ... had reports of that happening in Firefox), you might need to try an alternate browser. -Joe From bdwestra at gmail.com Wed May 22 13:43:56 2013 From: bdwestra at gmail.com (Brian Westra) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 10:43:56 -0700 Subject: [Rdap] Data Information Literacy Symposium Message-ID: Please join us for the Data Information Literacy Symposium at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, on September 23rd, and 24th 2013. *Program:* This symposium will explore roles for practicing librarians in teaching competencies in data management and curation to graduate students. With support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, librarians from Purdue University, Cornell University, the University of Minnesota and the University of Oregon have investigated this topic through developing and implementing ?data information literacy? (DIL) instruction programs for graduate students in a range of science and engineering disciplines. Members of the DIL project will share their experiences in working with faculty and graduate students, with a primary focus on the practical applications of their work. Keynote speakers will provide additional perspectives on teaching data literacy competencies. A portion of the conference will be devoted to further exploration of selected topics of interest as determined by attendees. *Outcomes:* Attendees will acquire an understanding of current issues in teaching data management and curation competencies to students. Through presentations, discussions and hands-on activities, attendees will develop strategies for creating their own instructional programs suitable for the needs of their students and faculty. *Intended audience:* Academic librarians and others who are providing research data management instruction for students, or librarians who are interested in doing so. *Poster Session:* Attendees who have developed educational initiatives, crafted resources, or conducted research in this area are invited to submit materials for a poster session, which will be held at the pre-symposium reception on Sunday, September 22nd. Attendees will be provided with information on how to submit a poster after they have registered for the symposium. *Registration*: Registration for the event is now open at: http://www.conf.purdue.edu/data. There is no registration fee, but the attendance is limited to the first 80 individuals that register. After that, you may request to be placed on the waiting list. To follow the event on Twitter and all updates from the DIL project, please search the hashtag #datainfolit. Updates from the event will be posted throughout the day September 23-24. More information about the Data Information Literacy Project can be found at the project?s website: http://datainfolit.org Please contact Jake Carlson, Data Services Specialist at Purdue University with any questions: jakecarlson at purdue.edu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jwd at indiana.edu Thu May 30 12:15:02 2013 From: jwd at indiana.edu (Dunn, Jon William Butcher) Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 12:15:02 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] JCDL 2013 early registration deadline extended to June 5 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <000501ce5d50$d6f0df80$84d29e80$@indiana.edu> (Please forgive cross-posting.) Early-bird registration for JCDL 2013 has been extended to June 5. Register online at http://www.regonline.com/JCDL2013. Rates available at http://jcdl2013.org/registration. The full program is available at http://jcdl2013.sched.org /. The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues, taking place in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA on July 22-26, 2013. The theme for JCDL 2013 is "Digital Libraries at the Crossroads," in recognition of our location (Indiana is known as the Crossroads of America) and in recognition of the changes forthcoming from the age of mass digitization, big data, and the ever changing nature of scholarly communications. Program Highlights: * 3 outstanding keynote speakers: Jill Cousins, Clifford Lynch, and David de Roure. More information at: http://jcdl2013.org/keynotespeakers; * 6 workshops covering topics such as data and software preservation, digital scholarship, research methods and artifacts preservation, web archiving, mining publications, and CURATEcamp. More information at http://jcdl2013.org/workshops; * 6 tutorials on topics including Europeana data model & collections, ResourceSync, Introduction to Digital Libraries, building collections with Greenstone, mining data semantics, and using open annotation. More information at http://jcdl2013.org/tutorials; * A diverse range of papers - 28 full papers and 22 short papers. More information at http://jcdl2013.org/papers; * And much more, including posters and demonstrations. More information at http://jcdl2013.org/posters-demonstrations. Indianapolis is a wonderful conference city friendly to both walkers and cyclists, with many dining, entertainment, and sports options accessible from the downtown area. Check out the visitors guide developed for ACRL 2013: http://conference.acrl.org/indy-pages-163.php. More JCDL travel details are available at http://jcdl2013.org/travel. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov Fri May 31 08:57:19 2013 From: oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov (Joe Hourcle) Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 08:57:19 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] Register: Islandora Camp, July 7th in Charlottetown, PEI References: Message-ID: I thought people on here might be interested. (also note mention of the Open Repositories conference shortly after) -Joe Begin forwarded message: > From: Islandora > Date: May 31, 2013 8:51:28 AM EDT > To: CODE4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: [CODE4LIB] Register: Islandora Camp, July 7th in Charlottetown, PEI > Reply-To: Code for Libraries > > Islandora is pleased to announce our annual Islandora Camp, taking place > Sunday, July 7th in Charlottetown, PEI (The day before the 2013 Open > Repositories conference, also held in Charlottetown - http://or2013.net). An > early bird rate of $195 is available until *June 4th*. Registration and > full details here: http://peicamp13.islandora.ca > > Islandora is an open-source software framework designed to help > institutions and organizations and their audiences collaboratively manage, > and discover digital assets using a best-practices framework. Islandora was > originally developed by the University of Prince Edward Island's Robertson > Library, but is now implemented and contributed to by an ever-growing > international community. > > This year's Islandora Camp will be the fourth time the Islandora community > has gathered in Prince Edward Island for summer sun and digital > repositories. > > The activities at Camp are also new this year. In response to feedback from > our last few camps, we are taking a very hands-on approach. Instead of a > series of sit-and-listen sessions, the camp will be structured around a set > of tutorials and exercises with Islandora. Working with the latest > Islandora 7.x release in a VM (bring your laptops!), attendees will be > grouped in tables of 4-5 with an experienced mentor, who will help you > through the projects when you struggle, or give you extra challenges if > you're breezing through. > > Curriculum details will be released within the next few weeks. General > plans are: > > *Admin Group* > For repository and collection managers, librarians, archivists, and anyone > else who deals primarily with the front-end experience of Islandora and > would like to learn how to get the most out of it, or developers who would > like to learn more about the front-end experience. > > - Intro to Drupal > - Setting Up Islandora > - Collection Management > - Solr > > *Developer Group* > For developers, systems people, and anyone dealing with Islandora at the > code-level, or any front-end Islandora users who are interested in learning > more about the developer side. > > - Setting up a Dev Environment > - Coding Standards > - Building a Module > - Solr > > We are also giving away a free registration for Camp and for Open > Repositories 2013 as part of a logo design contest for the Islandora Camp > t-shirt. Details: http://peicamp13.islandora.ca/content/t-shirt-contest > > Thanks, and we hope to see you this summer! > The Islandora Team > -- > http://islandora.ca > community at islandora.ca