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Digital Curation Centre:
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The website of the Digital Curation Centre states:
Digital Curation Centre will support UK institutions to store, manage and preserve ... data to ensure their enhancement and their continuing long-term use. The purpose of the Centre is to provide a national focus for research into curation issues and to promote expertise and good practice, both national and international, for the management of all research outputs in digital format.
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The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) was opened in November 2004. Given the important of the long-term curation of data to many branches of environmental sciences, the work of the DCC is likely to be of considerable interest to the UK environmental sciences community. This one-day event will provide a chance for our community to learn about the work of the DCC, and for the DCC to hear about the data issues within our community. |
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The aim of this one-day meeting is to discuss long-term curation of environmental data. The discussion will likely include information sharing concerning the diversity of data holdings, data management, data usage, data longevity, problems in data storage in the face of the explosion of data collection. It will certainly address questions concerning the sort of research that is needed now in order to protect current investments in data. The expectation is that a wide cross section of data stakeholders within NERC and the environmmental sciences will present their perspective on data curation, and the representatives of the DCC will be able to talk about the long-term vision of the DCC, the work it is carrying out, opportunities for future projects, and the potential for collaboration with the environmental sciences community.
This discussion meeting is primarily aimed at those currently involved in data management, including those involved in data collection, data accessibility, and long-term data curation. It should be of particular interest to members of NERC data centres, and scientists involved in science and escience research projects within which data management is an active issue.
The meeting will begin with registration and coffee at 10.30 am, and end with tea at 4 pm. The aim is to have a flexible programme to enable ad hoc discussion.
The tentative programme is
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10.30 |
Registration and tea/coffee |
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11.00 |
Welcome and introduction. Martin Dove (NIEeS/Cambridge) |
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11.15 |
Presentations from the Digital Curation Centre team: |
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12.15 and after lunch |
Presentations from the community: |
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13.00 |
Lunch |
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14.00 |
Continuation of talks and discussion |
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16.00 |
Tea/coffee and close |
The registration form (see below) is to be used for people to offer presentations, and to suggest topics for discussions. We would like to limit individual projects to one presentation per project, and we suggest that projects nominate a single representation. It also gives users an opportunity to list middleware tools they currently use, or which are are likely to be of interest in the near future.
The workshop will take place in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge. Details of the location, including travel plans, can be obtained here.
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There is no registration charge, but we need to ask people to pre-register. Please book early, because we need to have early estimates of numbers for catering planning. The NIEeS will refund reasonable travel expenses, and overnight accommodation if required. |
For information about registration, and all other types of queries, please contact the NIEeS office in the first instance.
