CIRSS

Using Pliny to Annotate Digital Resources @ e-Research Roundtable - July 1

Please join us on July 1st from 12:30-2:00 in room 341 for the next e-Research Roundtable (ERRT). For our first roundtable related to the new Open Annotation Collaboration Mellon-funded grant project, we will examine John Bradley's PLINY annotation tool. In particular, we will discuss how and to what extent PLINY can be used to perform some of the scholarly functions described in Renear, Allen H.; DeRose, Steve J.; Mylonas, Elli; van Dam, Andries (1999) An Outline for a Functional Taxonomy of Annotation. Yan Wang and Tim Cole will lead the discussion which will include demonstrations of PLINY. Please see the ERRT Web page (http://cirss.lis.illinois.edu/Rtable/errt.html) for a list of background readings. Everyone is welcome to attend and participate in the discussion.

Author: Kevin Trainor

Published Date: June 28, 2009

Wickett presents A testbed approach for metadata inference rule development at JCDL 2009

Karen Wicket will present "A testbed approach for metadata inference rule development" at the Workshop On Integrating Digital Library Content with Computational Tools and Services at the Joint Conference for Digital Libraries, June 19, 2009. Authors: Karen M. Wickett , Richard J. Urban , Wu Zheng and Allen H. Renear

Published Date: June 16, 2009

Science and Sceptics: blogs, climate science and reproducible research @ e-Research Roundtable - June 10

Please join us on June 10th from 12:30-2:00 in room 341 for the next e-Research Roundtable (ERRT). Dave Nichols (Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato) will be leading an informal discussion on "Science and Sceptics: blogs, climate science and reproducible research." Please see the ERRT Web page (http://cirss.lis.illinois.edu/SciCom/errt.html) for a list of background readings. Everyone is welcome to attend and participate in the discussion.

Author: Kevin Trainor

Published Date: June 3, 2009

Cragin presents on Trends & opportunities in data curation and data literacy

Melissa Cragin will visit the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, on June 3rd, to give a presentation on "Trends & opportunities in data curation and data literacy", and meet with librarians and faculty on supporting data curation and e-Research.

Published Date: June 2, 2009

PBCore metadata elements @ Metadata Roundtable - June 3

This Wednesday, June 3, Jack Brighton, Director of Internet Development of the WILL Public Media, will lead continuation of our discussion on PBCore metadata elements started on March 18th. We are meeting from 12:30 to 2:00 pm in LIS341. Please see the metadata roundtable webpage http://www.isrl.illinois.edu/~dcc/mdrt.html for background readings. Everyone is welcome to attend and participate in discussion.

Author: Oksana Zavalina

Published Date: June 1, 2009

What Defines a Data Community? @ e-Research Roundtable - May 27

Please join us on May 27th from 12:30-2:00 in room 341 for the fifth e-Research Roundtable (ERRT). Carole Palmer and Melissa Cragin will be leading an informal discussion on "What Defines a Data Community?". ERRT is a new CIRSS research study group focusing on information problems in the curation and integration of digital research data. The seminar is for collegial exchange around participants’ research ideas and activities, and open problems and advances in the field. It is modeled after the Metadata Roundtable (MDRT), which we’ve held regularly since 2003, and is open to faculty, students, and other professionals and researchers across campus.

Author: Kevin Trainor

Published Date: May 17, 2009

An appropriate institutional response: Some organizational contexts for digital asset management - May 21st, 3:30 PM

Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President and Chief Strategist for the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) will deliver the keynote address for the 2009 Summer Institute for Data Curation in the Humanities. All are welcome and encouraged to attend. Reception to follow. This event will be held on May 21st in 126 LIS from 3:30 to 5:00. The Data Curation Education Program (DCEP) at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science will hold a Summer Institute for Humanities Data Curation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from May 18 through 22. The Institute will be directed by Allen H. Renear, Associate Dean for Research at GSLIS, and sessions will be conducted by leading specialists in the various fields that are involved in the curation of humanities data. Data curation is the active and on-going management of research data through its lifecycle of interest and usefulness to scholarship, science, and education. With support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, GSLIS has been a pioneer in the development of data curation education within library and information science. Last year''s institute focused on data curation for science data. This year's workshop focuses on data services and curation activities for humanities data, particularly in academic libraries.

Published Date: May 16, 2009

2009 Summer Institute for Data Curation in the Humanities - May 18th to 22nd

The Data Curation Education Program (DCEP) at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science will hold a Summer Institute for Humanities Data Curation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Institute will be directed by Allen H. Renear, Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Research at GSLIS, and sessions will be conducted by leading specialists in the various fields that are involved in the curation of humanities data. The Institute is sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMSL). Registration for this event is now closed.

Author: Kevin Trainor

Published Date: May 14, 2009

Open Provenance Model @ e-Research Roundtable - May 6

Please join us on May 6th from 12:30-2:00 in room 341 for the fourth e-Research Roundtable (ERRT). Jim Myers and Joe Futrelle from the Cyberenvironments and Technologies Group at NCSA will be leading an informal discussion on the Open Provenance Model. The discussion will include a general overview of the technical scope of the Open Provenance Model, the international community and "Provenance Challenge" activities driving its development, and NCSA's provenance management technologies. While OPM has been driven primarily by scientific workflow interests, NCSA's interest is broader; the discussion will also include OPM's potential value in electronic notebooks/electronic records, community model validation and reference data development, 'active' curation, and long-term preservation. Please refer to http://cirss.lis.uiuc.edu/SciCom/errt.html for background readings. The discussion will be recorded and archived.

Author: Kevin Trainor

Published Date: May 1, 2009

SEASR Analytics via Zotero @ e-Research Roundtable - April 29

Please join us on April 29th from 12:30-2:00 in room 341 for the third e-Research Roundtable (ERRT). Loretta Auvil and Michael Welge from the Automated Learning Group at NCSA will be leading an informal discussion on SEASR Analytics via Zotero. ERRT is a new CIRSS research study group focusing on information problems in the curation and integration of digital research data. The seminar is for collegial exchange around participants’ research ideas and activities, and open problems and advances in the field. It is modeled after the Metadata Roundtable (MDRT), which we’ve held regularly since 2003, and is open to faculty, students, and other professionals and researchers across campus.

Author: Kevin Trainor

Published Date: April 24, 2009