Subscribers to this list may be interested in the Forum announced below on Managing and Citing Research Data.
Best wishes,
Simon.
________________________________________
From: Repositories discussion list [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Cynthia Hodgson [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 17 July 2012 18:03
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: NISO Forum: Tracking it Back to the Source: Managing and Citing Research Data
NISO Forum: Tracking it Back to the Source: Managing and Citing Research
Data
DATE: Denver, CO
LOCATION: September 24, 2012
ABOUT THE FORUM
As data creation increases exponentially across nearly all scholarly
disciplines, new roles and requirements are rising to meet the challenges in
organization, identification, description, publication, discovery, citation,
preservation, and curation to allow these materials to realize their
potential in support of data-driven, often interdisciplinary research.
NISOs Forum, Tracking it Back to the Source: Managing and Citing Research
Data, will focus on several new initiatives to improve community practice on
data citation and data discovery.
TOPICS & SPEAKERS
Opening Keynote Allen Renear, Professor and Interim Dean, Graduate
School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
DataCite and EZID Joan Starr, Manager, Strategic and Project Planning
and EZID Service Manager, California Digital Library
Jim Mullins, Dean of Libraries, Purdue University
Data Equivalence Mark Parsons, Lead Project Manager, Senior Associate
Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center
ResourceSync: the Large-Scale Synchronization of Web Resources Herbert
Van de Sompel, Digital Library Researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
and Co-chair of NISOs ResourceSync Working Group
Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) William (Bill) Michener,
Professor and Director of e-Science Initiatives for University Libraries,
University of New Mexico; DataONE Principal Investigator
Data Attribution and Citation Practices Micah Altman, Director of
Research and Head/Scientist, Program on Information Science for the MIT
Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
REGISTRATION & INFORMATION
An early bird registration discount is available through September 10, 2012.
Additional discounts are available to NISO members and students. Visit the
event webpage for more information and to register:
www.niso.org/news/events/2012/tracking_it_back_to_the_source/
|