Category: e-science
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CeRch awarded 1.3 Million Pounds in JISC funding
(A VRE is a Virtual Research Environment…like a blackboard, well not really) The following press release is from the Centre that I work within at King’s College; London. A lot of these projects won’t be of that much interest to researchers (as they are infrastructure grants, not research), however the TEXTvre project may be of…
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New Book: World Wide Web of Research
A new book will be released soon titled: World Wide Web of Reseach: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities (Cambridge; the MIT Press). It is edited by Bill Dutton and Paul Jeffreys, both of Oxford. Dutton is Director of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) whilst Paul Jeffreys is Director of IT at Oxford. I believe the…
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Grand delusions…
(the Round Reading Room) Today I am working from King’s fabulous Maughan Library. I like it here, it not only expands my ever decreasing perspective on the world, but humbles me before all the great European mistakes. I am writing a series of case studies for the project I am working on called Arts-humanities.net The…
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Institutional repositories and data re-use for the humanities
(originally written for Arts-humanities.net) Institutional repositories have become increasing important systems to store the rising amount of data produced by researchers. An institutional repository may be university wide or subject specific. They may serve the needs of a particular institution, a group of institutions, a nation, or an entire region. Examples include the UK’s Archaeological…
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Report on the working group on Virtual Reseach Communities
This report from the OSI (Office of Science and Innovatuion) e-Infrastructure Steering Group may be of interest to punters (link).
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DCC Digital Curation 101 Workshop
DCC Digital Curation 101 Workshop 10-12 March 2009 London The majority of scientific research is carried out through short-term, funded projects. Accordingly, principle investigators and researchers must constantly be on the lookout for new funding opportunities to continue their research activity. This, coupled with often limited staffing resources, has meant that data management and curation…