EPSRC Digital Repositories |
This workshop on 2 - 4 December is co-hosted by DReSNet and Queen Mary University of London.
Many repositories hold data not only of interest to the producers of the data, but also to collaborators and fellow researchers, easier access to these data and to data holding related data-sets would enhance research, potentially open up new areas of research.
The aim of this workshop through discussion of user scenarios/wishlists is to understand (among other things):
The Text Mining for Scholarly Communications and
Repositories Joint Workshop takes place 28-29 October at the University of Manchester.
The aim of the event is to examine the issues, challenges and priorities associated with integrating text mining technologies in applications to support scholarly communication and repository initiatives.
The audience is expected to consist of researchers, information management professionals, librarians, text miners, repository providers, publishers, policy makers and JISC service representatives.
Tobias has been invited to give a keynote at the eSciDoc days at FIZ Karlsruhe on "Virtual Environments - How can infrastructure matter to research?": http://www.escidoc.org/media/docs/escidoc-days-2009/keynote-blanke.pdf
Mark and Tobias have been involved in setting up a Scholars Workbench Solutions Community - together with Chris Awre and Richard Green from Hull and Thornton Staples from Fedora Commons. After some very productive telephone conferences and meetings, we came up with a mission statement.
Basically, the community should bring together researchers and developers interested in providing e-Research solutions based on the Fedora Commons systems and other digital repository systems.
You can find details here: http://www.fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/FCCWG/Scholars+Workbenc...
Following on from the digital repository workshops at OGF, Mark and Tobias have been involved in setting up a research group on Digital Repositories at OGF.
The goal of the Digital Repositories Research Group (DR-RG) is to analyze how digital repositories can be built on top of federated storage infrastructure, focusing on the exploitation of existing data-related standards and the identification of need for new or revised data-related standards.
Last week, Mark and Tobias visited the wonderful D4Science project at CNR in Pisa/Italy. We had an impressive presentation on their repository tools and services in the context of the gCube: http://www.d4science.eu/. It was exciting to see how data-driven research using repositories features in the European infrastructure EGEE.
We arranged further collaborations with D4Science in the context of the European infrastructure project we are working on called DARIAH (http://www.dariah.eu): http://www.beliefproject.org/Members/D4Science/my_news/reporting-on-the-...
Announcement of Research Tutorials at the IEEE Conference on Digital Ecosystems
As research increasingly relies on digital ecosystem for their research, the development and provisioning of a suitable infrastructure and of tools that can serve as habitats and agents for the various research communities has emerged as one of the challenges for the computing science.
The scope of the workshops and the associated briefing material assumed that federated access management is a requirement for repositories; it did not infer this as a solution to previously-identified requirements. This assumption was made by JISC as a pragmatic approach to developing a tentative programme of work, which will be subject to further iterative development.
Mark Hedges and Tobias Blanke (King's College London): "Targets of DReSNet and overview of a research agenda for Digital Repositories in e-Science and e-Research"
The first presentation by Mark Hedges presented the Network’s aims and objectives and reported on activities so far:
4th International Digital Curation Conference
1 December 2008
Hilton Edinburgh Grosvenor Hotel, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
This workshop, jointly supported by OGF-Europe, OMII-UK and DReSNeT, aims to address the specific requirements for Digital Repository curation service environments.
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