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JISC-sponsored Incremental Project Scoping Study and Implementation Plan

July 27, 2010

The UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is funding a project on research data management at the University of Glasgow and the Cambridge University. There’s a web site at

http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/preservation/incremental/

and a blog at

http://incrementalproject.wordpress.com

Earlier this month the project issued a scoping study and implementation plan, which can be found at

http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/preservation/incremental/news.html

which draws heavily on interviews that the project conducted with front-line researchers at the two institutions.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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Conversations – July recording available

July 20, 2010

The archived audio recording of the July 15 CNI Conversations session is now available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher). This session includes a recap of the JISC/CNI Edinburgh conference by CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch and myself; sessions on e-science, “digging into data challenge projects,” special collections, institutional strategies for digital content, and services for users of mobile devices were highlighted. Cliff also discussed the IATUL conference and the Microsoft research meeting. I gave a summary of an article on the current status of electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) programs in the US that Cliff and I co-authored and that will appear soon in the ARL publication RLI (issue 270).

About CNI Conversations
CNI Conversations provides an opportunity for individuals from member institutions and organizations to talk to CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format. Questions and discussion are invited and encouraged. Real-time participation in CNI Conversations requires pre-registration, which is open only to those at member institutions and organizations; if you are interested in participating in CNI Conversations, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org. We plan to continue to make audio or other records of these exchanges generally available after the event.

For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact me at Joan@cni.org.

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July 2010

July 16, 2010

Audio Recording [mp3 1:06:46 hr.] July 15, 2010

In the July 2010 CNI Conversations, Executive Director Cliff Lynch and Associate Director Joan Lippincott provide a recap of the JISC/CNI Edinburgh conference; sessions on e-science, “digging into data challenge projects,” special collections, institutional strategies for digital content, and services for users of mobile devices were highlighted. Cliff also discussed the IATUL conference and the Microsoft research meeting. Joan Lippincott gave a summary of an article on the current status of electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) programs in the US that she and Cliff co-authored and that will appear soon in the ARL publication RLI (issue 270).

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JISC/CNI Meeting – blog and Twitter

July 2, 2010

See the Twitter stream for the JISC/CNI 2010 Meeting, Managing Data in Difficult Times: policies, strategies, technologies and infrastructure to manage research and teaching data in a fast changing technological and economic environment, by searching the hashtag #JISCCNI. The meeting blog, where more information about the meeting will be posted in the coming days, including brief vodcast interviews, is available at http://jisccni.jiscinvolve.org/wp/.

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JISC/CNI Conference – Still time to register

June 11, 2010

We have a great lineup of speakers for the upcoming JISC/CNI conference in Edinburgh. In addition to the plenary speakers listed below, both Cliff and I will be presenting breakout sessions. Hope to see you there.
Joan

A reminder about the forthcoming JISC/CNI event in Edinburgh. It is not too late to register; the delegate rate is £345 including attendance at all conference sessions, refreshments and lunch on 1 and 2 July, a place at the conference reception and evening activities on 1 July, overnight accommodation on 1 July and breakfast. For registration, please go to: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2010/

Managing Data in Difficult Times: policies, strategies, technologies and infrastructure to manage research and teaching data in a fast changing technological and economic environment

Following the success of previous conferences held in venues such as York and Belfast, JISC and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) are proud to announce the 8th International Meeting that will be held at the Barcelo Carlton Hotel, Edinburgh on 1-2 July 2010.

The meeting will bring together experts from the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom. Parallel sessions will explore and contrast major developments that are happening on both sides of the Atlantic. It should be of interest to all senior management in information systems in the education community and those responsible for delivering digital services and resources for learning, teaching and research.

The main conference will open at 09.30hrs on Thursday 1 July and will close at 15.00hrs on Friday 2 July. Conference keynote speakers include:

  • Dan Atkins, Professor and Associate Vice President, University of Michigan and former Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, US National Science Foundation
  • Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Director for Library Digital Programs, John Hopkins University
  • Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC
  • Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN

Topics for sessions include:

  • Cloud Computing
  • Innovation in Learning and Teaching
  • Open Data Policies
  • Shared Services
  • Repositories
  • Digital Content and Institutional Planning
  • Resource Discovery
  • Digital Preservation
  • e-Science

The residential delegate fee includes attendance at all conference sessions, refreshments and lunch on 1 and 2 July, a place at the conference reception and evening activities on 1 July, overnight accommodation on 1 July and breakfast for one person.

The residential delegate rate is £345. To register for the event, please go to: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2010/

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CNI Conversations – May recording available

June 2, 2010

The the archived audio recording of the May 27 CNI Conversations session is now available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher). This session includes discussion of a recent meeting on computer forensics and cultural heritage, as well as information about a symposium at the University of North Texas dealing with a campus policy on open access. CNI Director Clifford Lynch also talked about the Sage Bionetworks Congress held in April 2010, to establish the foundation for the new public domain resource, the Sage Commons.

Associate Director Joan Lippincott provides an overview of her talk at the upcoming Electronic Theses and Dissertations conference (Austin, TX, June 2010), in which she will speak on how library and IT units can better support students at the thesis or dissertation stage. Questions included the Center for Studies in Higher Education meeting on peer review, and the data management plan recently mandated by the National Science Foundation as part of grants.

About CNI Conversations
CNI Conversations provides an opportunity for individuals from member institutions and organizations to talk to CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format. Questions and discussion are invited and encouraged. Real-time participation in CNI Conversations requires pre-registration, which is open only to those at member institutions and organizations; if you are interested in participating in CNI Conversations, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie. We plan to continue to make audio or other records of these exchanges generally available after the event.

For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at Joan.

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May 2010

May 28, 2010

Audio Recording [mp3 1:01:53 hr.] May 27, 2010

During the May 2010 session of CNI Conversations, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch discusses a recent meeting on computer forensics and cultural heritage, as well as a symposium at the University of North Texas dealing with a campus policy on open access. Cliff also talks about the Sage Bionetworks Congress held in April 2010, to establish the foundation for the new public domain resource, the Sage Commons.

Associate Director Joan Lippincott provides an overview of her talk at the upcoming Electronic Theses and Dissertations conference (Austin, TX, June 2010), in which she will speak on how library and IT units can better support students at the thesis or dissertation stage. Questions were asked about the Center for Studies in Higher Education meeting on peer review, and the data management plan recently mandated by the National Science Foundation as part of grants.

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Workshop on Archiving Experiments, May 25-26, Utah

May 25, 2010

Our colleague Anita de Waard from Elsevier Labs sent me an announcement for a very interesting NSF-sponsored workshop on the archiving of scientific experiments, which has clear links to scientific data management and the ability to reproduce experiments. There are workshop materials on the site, and they are also streaming the workshop live today and tomorrow. I don’t know if the video streams will be saved and available later on demand.

My apologies for posting this so late: I hope it will still be useful to CNI-announce & CNI News readers. I’ll put out a further announcement when the workshop report is available.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

Hello! This is an announcement of the live-video Webcast for the upcoming Archive ’10 workshop.

Archive ’10, the NSF Workshop on Archiving Experiments to Raise Scientific Standards, will be held next week, Tue-Wed May 25-26, on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

The workshop sessions will be broadcast live over the Internet. To view the video broadcast, visit the following URL:

http://stream.utah.edu/m/show_clip.php?c=c9ffb6d68caab924839

The workshop will run approximately:

8:30 AM — 5:30 PM MDT on Tuesday, May 25, and
8:30 AM — 12:00 PM MDT on Wednesday, May 26.

See the following Web pages for workshop info and the workshop schedule:

http://users.emulab.net/trac/archive10/wiki
http://users.emulab.net/trac/archive10/wiki/WorkshopSchedule

Thank you for your interest in the Archive ’10 workshop!

Best wishes -

Mary Hall and Eric Eide
Archive ’10 Workshop Organizers
archive10-oc@flux.utah.edu

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NRC Board on Research Data and Information Symposium, June 3, 2010

May 24, 2010

Paul Uhlir has asked me to share this invitation to a very interesting symposium that’s being held in conjunction with the US National Research Council’s Board on Research Data and Information’s meeting on June 3 and 4 in Washington DC. Some of you may recall that Paul gave a CNI briefing recently on the work of the Board, which is involved in many policy areas related to research data management that are central to the CNI agenda; you can find extensive background on the Board’s work at http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

Dear Colleagues,

Below is an invitation to a public symposium organized by the NRC Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI). Please distribute this invitation to others you think may be interested. Additional information about the meeting logistics may be found at: clevey.

Thanks,

Paul Uhlir
Director, BRDI

INVITATION

THE CHANGING ROLE OF LIBRARIES
IN SUPPORT OF RESEARCH DATA ACTIVITIES
A PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM
Sponsored by the
Board on Research Data and Information
National Research Council
(http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi)
Thursday, June 3, 2010, 4:00-6:15 p.m.
USDA Waugh Meeting Room, 3rd Floor
1800 M Street NW, South Lobby

In recent years, a great deal of attention has been devoted to the role of different libraries in the federal government, university, and research institute context with regard to the potential long-term preservation, management, and provision of scientific data, and related support of services and applications for publicly-funded research. This has come at a time of rapid technological change, an enormous and accelerating increase in the amount of scientific data that is being generated, and intense financial pressures on libraries.

The institutional roles of libraries in the management and support of scientific data activities for research and for the broader society are one important area of focus for the National Research Council’s Board on Research Data and Information. Three of the Board’s sponsors are major federal library organizations-the Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services-and they each provide a different role and perspective concerning these issues.

The Board’s public symposium on the afternoon of 3 June 2010 will feature presentations on this set of topics by senior managers from these three federal library organizations, as well as from the Association of Research Libraries, which has examined the role of libraries for research data in some depth and whose members are institutions with a great deal at stake in this debate. The symposium will conclude with comments by two Board members, a university professor and researcher working in the data-intensive field of geographic information and a university professor of information science. The symposium will be moderated by Prof. Michael Lesk, Chair of the Board on Research Data and Information.


Moderator: Michael Lesk, Rutgers University

Speakers:
Deanna Marcum, Library of Congress
Betsy Humphreys, National Library of Medicine
Joyce Ray, Institute for Museum and Library Services
Karla Strieb, Association of Research Libraries
Michael Goodchild, UC, Santa Barbara
Christine Borgman, UC, Los Angeles

Panel Discussion of Invited Speakers and Board Members
and
General discussion with the audience

USDA Waugh Meeting Room, 3rd Floor, South Lobby, 1800 M Street NW, Washington, DC
Thursday, June 3, 2010, 4:00 PM – 6:15 PM

The symposium is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required because of space limitations.

RSVP to Cheryl Levey at clevey@nas.edu.
For additional information, visit
http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi
or contact Paul Uhlir, the Board Director, at puhlir@nas.edu or 202-334-1531.

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JISC Keeping Research Data Safe 2 Final Report

May 17, 2010

JISC has just released the final report of a major study of the costs of preserving research data. The details are below.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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JISC is pleased to announce that the final report for Keeping Research Data Safe 2 (KRDS2) is now available from the JISC website. This KRDS2 study report presents the results of a survey of available cost information, validation and further development of the KRDS activity cost model, and a new taxonomy to help assess benefits alongside costs. The KRDS2 study was conducted by Charles Beagrie Ltd. and associates.

KRDS2 has delivered the following:

·         A survey of cost information for digital preservation, collating and making available 13 survey responses for different cost datasets;

·         The KRDS activity model has been reviewed and its presentation and usability enhanced;

·         Cost information for four organisations (the Archaeology Data Service; National Digital Archive of Datasets; UK Data Archive; and University of Oxford) has been analysed in depth and presented in case studies;

·         A benefits framework has been produced and illustrated with two benefit case studies from the National Crystallography Service at Southampton University and the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex.

One of the key findings on the long-term costs of digital preservation for research data was that the cost of archiving activities (archival storage and preservation planning and actions) is consistently a very small proportion of the overall costs and significantly lower than the costs of acquisition/ingest or access activities for all the case studies in KRDS2. As an example the respective activity staff costs for the Archaeology Data Service are Access (c.31%), Outreach/Acquisition/Ingest (c.55%), Archiving (c.15%).This confirms and supports a preliminary finding in KRDS1.

Full URL:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2010/keepingresearchdatasafe2.aspx#downloads

A range of supplementary materials in support of this report have also been made available on the KRDS project website. This includes the ULCC Excel Cost Spreadsheet for the NDAD service together with a Guide to Interpreting and Using the NDAD Cost Spreadsheet. The NDAD Cost Spreadsheet has previously been used as an exercise in digital preservation training events and may be particularly useful in training covering digital preservation costs. The accompanying Guide provides guidance to those wishing to understand and experiment with the spreadsheet.

Neil Grindley
Programme Manager
Digital Preservation & Records Management
1st Floor Brettenham House (South)
5 Lancaster Place
London
WC2E 7EN
tel: 0203 006 6059
email: n.grindley@jisc.ac.uk

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