(with apologies for cross posting)
Final reminder -
FOURTH BLOOMSBURY CONFERENCE ON E-PUBLISHING AND E-PUBLICATIONS, LONDON 24 & 25 JUNE 2010 -
Valued Resources: Roles and Responsibilities of Digital Curators and Publishers
(An independent conference organised from the Centre for Publishing/Department of Information Studies at University College London, co-sponsored by the US Institute of Museum and Library Services)
We cordially invite all members of the list to join us for this year's conference at UCL, where we once again have an incredibly strong range of top speakers covering this vital topic!
Special two-for-one rates are available for participants from academic institutions, and a number of free student places are also still available.
Brief details are provided below, but for full details of the programme , fees and registration , do please visit the conference website at
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/e-publishing/
We very much hope you will be able to join us this year!
Sincerely,
Andy Dawson, Anthony Watkinson and the Conference team.
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Theme of the Conference:
This fourth conference in a highly successful series, this year co-sponsored by the UCL Department of Information Studies and the US Institute of Museum and Library Services, is centred on datasets and databases, on how scholars create and use them, on how librarians through repositories aim to organise, maintain and preserve the content, and how publishers are beginning to want to link their publications to these resources and also bring their own skills to bear on the processes involved. A central concept is digital curation, a concept that provides a comprehensive view of the creation and management of digital data.
It is however recognised that data in its various forms is only one resource valued by scholars in addition and closely related to publications and speakers will have been asked to keep the wider picture in view. It is also recognised that practices among researchers in different disciplines vary considerably and there will be a number of presentations on the second day of the conference describing how scholars in particular areas create, share and maintain their datasets or contribute to disciplinary databases and databanks.
This conference is unique in its breadth of coverage and its independent and scholarly approach to practical implementation. It will be essential for those scholars, publishers and librarians who wish to understand the role of data in the research cycle and their own responsibilities in relation to datasets and databases.
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