Category: e-science
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A roadshow on e-infrastructure, ‘From motion capture to ancient manuscripts:
AHeSSC is organizing a roadshow about e-infrastructure at King’s on 30 January. See below for more details and the programme. It’s free to come along and there will be lunch. To register go to the roadshow website: www.jisc.ac.uk/kingsroadshow. =============== A roadshow on e-infrastructure, ‘From motion capture to ancient manuscripts: Using complex digital resources across disciplines’…
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The Economic and Social Data Service (UK)
The Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) is a national data service providing access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, spanning many disciplines and themes. ESDS provides an integrated service offering enhanced support for the secondary use of data across the research, learning and teaching…
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Scholarship in the Digital Age (Bibliography)
A usuful resource from Christine Borgman’s book (bibliography…link) “Scholars in all fields now have access to an unprecedented wealth of online information, tools, and services. The Internet lies at the core of an information infrastructure for distributed, data-intensive, and collaborative research. Although much attention has been paid to the new technologies making this possible, from…
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Nature: Big Data
The journal Nature has just come out with its latest issue, which includes a special section on “Big Data” — the flood of scientific data and its implications for science and for scholarly communication. It includes several superb articles, and a brief commentary that I’ve written on data curation issues. Readers interested in cyberinfrastructure, e-science…
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Adding value to data – Digital Repositories in the e-Science world
Special Session at the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (http://escience2008.iu.edu/) December 7-12, 2008, Indianapolis, USA An Initiative of DReSNet: Digital Repositories in e-Science Network (http://www.dresnet.net <http://www.dresnet.net/>) There is a great, untapped potential for synergies between grid/e-science technologies and a cluster of related systems addressing the management of digital assets in digital libraries and repositories.…
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Project Bamboo
Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational effort that brings together researchers in arts and humanities, computer scientists, information scientists, librarians, and campus information technologists to tackle the question: How can we advance arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services? (link)