The DCC Digital Curation 101

06 October, 08 09:00 AM - 09 October, 08 06:00 PM

e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh

Any slides or other material generated as a result of this event can be found at: www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=904

The majority of scientific research is carried out through short-term, funded projects. Accordingly, principle investigators and researchers must constantly be on the lookout for the new funding opportunities to continue their research activity. This, coupled with often limited staffing resources, has meant that data management and curation activities have not generally been given a high priority within research projects. However, research councils and funding bodies are becoming increasingly aware of the value of sharing and reusing data and now require evidence of adequate and appropriate provisions for data management and curation in new grant funding applications.

To assist researchers in developing sound data management and curation plans, the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has developed the Digital Curation

101 course to provide an introduction to digital curation and the range of activities that should be considered when planning and implementing new projects.

Benefits of participation

Upon completing the Digital Curation 101, participants will have gained an understanding of the range and nature of data management and curation activities that should be considered when planning new research projects and will be better equipped to develop and implement sound data management and curation plans for future research funding bids.

The course

Using the Digital Curation Lifecycle as a reference point ( http://www.dcc.ac.uk/docs/publications/DCCLifecycle.pdf ), this five day course will employ a mix of lectures and practical exercises to equip participants with both a theoretical underpinning of core digital curation issues as well as hands-on experience in applying the lessons learned.

Costs

This is a pilot course and as such we are pleased to offer a limited number of free places for up to 30 participants from the following domains:

• bench scientists
• information specialists

A key goal will be the integration of these communities of practice to share their experiences and to identify where, when and how they can best cooperate to meet data curation challenges.

Venue

e-Science Institute
15 South College Street
Edinburgh
EH8 9AA
United Kingdom

Target Audience

The target audience for this event is researchers with funding body data management and curation mandates to fulfil and information management specialists.

Programme

This event is provisionally scheduled to start at 09:00 Monday 06 October 2008 and close at 18:00 on Thursday 09 October 2008.

A programme is available at: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/904/Agenda.pdf

Social Events
A welcome reception will take place on the evening of October 6th at the Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh from 18:30 - 19:30. Can you please confirm by email to british.editor@erpanet.org whether or not you will be attending the reception. A group dinner is being held in Howies Victoria Street on the 08 October at 19:30

Accommodation

Assistance with accommodation is offered once you have registered.

Registration for this event is now closed. To enquire about an application or to cancel a previous application please contact NeSC Administration.

Important Dates

01 Jul - Registration Opens
01 Oct - Registration Deadline
01 Oct - Date we will respond to your application by (Please note this is the latest date we will respond to your application. It is normal policy for us to respond within 5 working days where possible.)
06 Oct - Event Starts at 09:00hrs

Travel

Full details on how to get to the e-Science Institute are available at:

http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/esi_travel.html

Enquiries

Enquiries should be made directly to our Conference Administrator.

http://www.nesc.ac.uk/