Speakers Tony Hey of Microsoft Research and Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, will be presenting The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Research, Digital Scholarship and Implications for Libraries at the LITA President’s Program on June 24th at the … Continue reading →
Check into #MetadataDay on Twitter to follow the May 9th Metadata Day, a professional development day workshop for New England science, health sciences and engineering librarians. The day will include a morning lecture overview on metadata by renowned metadata expert … Continue reading →
After reading Regina Raboin’s blog post, Of Cloud Computing and e-Science, you may want to consider attending the New England Library Association ITS spring conference, Cloudy with a chance of connecting to the future, on Friday June 8th, at the … Continue reading →
Forwarding announcement from Marisa Ramirez, chair of ACRL Digital Curation Interest Group. The Digital Curation Interest Group (ACRL), Digital Conversion Interest Group (ALCTS PARS), Intellectual Access to Preservation Metadata Interest Group (ALCTS PARS), and Digital Preservation Interest Group (ALCTS PARS) … Continue reading →
The National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health are hosting a webinar on Tuesday May 8th from 11 am-12 pm EST about their joint Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering (BIGDATA) solicitation. NSF’s … Continue reading →
Held in conjunction with the the ACM /IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, this 1st International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications explores ways researchers will be able to access and use large databases of scientific publications. The workshop aims to … Continue reading →
The ACRL Research Program Committee and the Science and Technology Section are cosponsoring the program Data Curation as a Form of Collaborative Research during the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, on July 24th from 1:30-3:30 (PST). The program will look … Continue reading →
The ACRL Digital Curation Interest Group has been sponsoring a series of webinars “Conversations with…” featuring speakers discussing various topics relevant to digital curation. This Friday, April 20th, at 1 pm ESt, there will be a webinar featuring Jimi Jones, … Continue reading →
This NERCOMP workshop will provide an introduction to digital data and collections, their use in teaching and research, and roles for librarians and technologists in data curation and digitization. For more information and registration, see NERCOMP event overview “Digital Data … Continue reading →
This Thursday, April 12th, the University of Virginia Library will be hosting its first Data Management Day symposium. The goal of this day is to increase awareness of data management issues and provide a forum for discussion of best practices … Continue reading →
