Tag: eresearch
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What is VeRSI?
Overview of VeRSI from VeRSI on Vimeo.
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Open Science and Data
As part of JISC’s ‘Research 3.0 – driving the knowledge economy’ activity which launches at the end of November, a new Open Science report released today trails key research trends that could have far-reaching implications for science, universities and UK society. The report written by UKOLN at the University of Bath and the Digital Curation…
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Open Access enhances scholarly communication by making the results of research electronically available
The rhetoric within this JISC promotion of Open Access is a little naive (ie. as if researchers haven’t always communicated their research results), but still there is some good information here about JISC’s initiatives. Also, check out the podcast by Harvard Historian Robert Darnton (link). Opening the knowledge base to all means more researchers can…
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Survey: Virtual Reseach Environment Collaboartive Landscape Study
What is a VRE? “…a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) is an an online framework of collaborative tools and resources that allow researchers to share and re-use data, combine services, and undertake tasks to promote new collaborative research practices….” The VRE Collaborative Landscape Study project is one of several studies commissioned by the UK Joint Information…
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Christine Borgman lecture@OII
Christine Borgman gave an interesting lecture at OII (Oxford Internet Institute) recently (she is one of the Keynote speakers at this years Digital Humanities Conference. One of the major points that I retained from this talk is that Data is not objective fact. Data is simply the ‘alleged evidence’ as one researchers observations may differ…
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The Digging into Data Challenge: What to do with one million books?
This is a opportune international development for those in the Digital Humanities. I am not aware of any involvement from King’s, but would be interested to hear from any other UK institutions who plan to compete! The Digging into Data Challenge is an international grant competition sponsored by four leading research agencies, the Joint Information…