An interview in CILIPS Update with DISC-UK members about the field of data librarianship in today's academic environment.

Quoted: This blog aims to serve as a tool to both record the progress of the Scoping Digital Repository Services for Research Data Management project and to disseminate outputs and information about relevant activities in the converging domains of data curation, institutional repositories and e-Research.

(Luis Martinez Uribe was a DISC-UK member at LSE until this year and has contributed deliverables to the DataShare project. We will keep in contact with him and wish him well with his project at Oxford.)

The aims of the Centre are to assist to improve the research performance of the University through:

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improved use of ICT technologies,
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improved dialogue between IT developers in the Faculty of IT and end-user researchers in the other faculties,
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improved dialogue between ITS and researchers,
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nurturing development of e-Research and GRID technologies,
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engagement with industry and government and
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engagement with national and international collaborations.

Cyberscholarship: High Performance Computing Meets Digital Libraries - by William Arms

Cyberinfrastructure, Data and Libraries (from D-Lib Magazine) - sept/oct 2007 - in two parts, by Anna Gold, MIT

Literature review on virtual organizations which is rather helpful to understand what VREs are.

The Research Information Network’s (RIN) survey on “Researcher’s use of Academic Libraries and their Services” provides perspectives for the future role of libraries and in particular suggests a function that libraries can take on, the management of data generated and use in e-Research activities.

GridPP project page

"The DCC SCARP Project will investigate disciplinary attitudes and approaches to data deposit, sharing and re-use, curation and preservation. It will do this through a range of methods..."