» Motivations
Modern scientific communities and their research infrastructures serve for discipline-specific activities whose input and output affect and are affected by scholarly communication. To cope with the increasing speed of such activities and the growing volumes of research outcome, communities need to be facilitated at publishing,…
» Workshop finds that data sharing should be rewarded and universities and funders have an important role to play in this process. Metrics are not yet sufficiently developed as a measure to be used in assessment and require further exploration (…) «
» 1. Licences for Europe, Text and Data Mining working group, 3rd meeting | Brussels, 22 April 2013
Presentation by Jean-Francois Dechamp, Open Access Policy Officer
European Commission, Directorate-General for Research & Innovation (DG RTD) (…) «
» The University of Chicago launched the first secure cloud-based computing system that enables researchers to access and analyze human genomic cancer information without the costly and cumbersome infrastructure normally needed to download and store massive amounts of data (…) «
» Dryad will begin charging submission fees on the 1st of September 2013.
Dryad is a nonprofit organization that provides long-term access to its contents at no cost to researchers, educators or students, irrespective of nationality or institutional affiliation. Dryad is able to provide free access…
» … Goal
The primary goal of the Community Group is to provide a platform for scholars, librarians, publishers, archivists and policy makers to exchange requirements and expectations for supporting a new form of scholarly communication, i.e. making the actual research assets available as first-class objects to…
» … Workshop Objectives
This workshop will consider how Digital Libraries can adapt to meet these needs. Starting with the complex digital objects needed to store the multi-format artefacts such as datasets, workflows, results and publications, the workshop will discuss how they they be captured, stored, associated,…
» The APARSEN project is delighted to announce that registration has opened for our first training event, held in association with the Digital Repository of Ireland and organised by the Digital Preservation Coalition, on the topic of ‘Trust and Digital Preservation’.
Long established as a key issue…
» Overview
DC-2013 will explore questions regarding the persistence, maintenance, and preservation of metadata and descriptive vocabularies. The need for stable representations and descriptions spans all sectors including cultural heritage and scientific data, eGovernment, finance and commerce. Thus, the maintenance and management of metadata is essential to…
» Aim and Scope
The sharing and re-use of research information is becoming an increasingly important aspect of scientific activity. Text publications are – and will be at least for the near future – the predominant way of publishing research output and challenges still exist for their…
