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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:25:31 -0000
From: Lee Callaghan <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: National e-Science Centre News

National e-Science Centre News
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March newsletter now online at:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/news/newsletter/March05.pdf

Events outwith eSI
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1st International Digital Curation Conference, 29-30 September 2005,
Hilton Bath City, Bath, UK

The UK Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is pleased to announce the dates of
the 1st International Digital Curation Conference which will be held at
the Hilton Bath City 29th-30th September 2005.

The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is jointly funded by the JISC (Joint
Information Systems Committee) and the EPSRC (Engineering & Physical
Sciences Research Council) on behalf of the UK Research Councils. The
DCC provides a focus on research into digital curation expertise and
best practice for the storage, management and preservation of digital
information to enable its use and reuse over time.

The overarching aim of the DCC is to provide leadership in digital
curation and data preservation. The conference will provide an important
forum, helping to raise awareness of the key issues and encouraging
active participation and feedback from all stakeholder communities. The
programme, which includes Keynote Speakers, will provide an overview of
the work of the DCC and an opportunity via a "Symposium" to discuss the
concepts and principles of Digital Curation. There will also be a series
of parallel sessions, which will look in more detail at specific topics
including Socio-Legal Issues, Format Registries, Storage Media, Training
& Staff Development and Certification.

Who should attend
The Conference will be of interest to individuals, organisations and
institutions across all disciplines and domains that are engaged in the
creation, use and management of digital data from researchers and
curators through to policy makers and funders.

For further information regarding the conference please contact
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The 5th Annual Access Grid Retreat
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Will this year be held April 26-29 in California. The AG Retreats
provide an interactive forum for the Access Grid community to share
recent experiences and research findings, to present ideas for future AG
technical directions and to train and educate AG newcomers.

For more information please visit:
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/fl/flevents/ag/agr05/

Collaborative and Learning Applications of Grid Technology and Grid
Education
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This workshop focuses on the use of the grid for education and/or
collaboration in general and for collaborative learning in particular,
and on grid education. For this reason, CLAG 2005 aims at bringing
together educators and researchers in grid computing, e-learning,
collaborative computing, and CSCL to present their latest work
integrating these fields. To foster collaboration among researchers from
different backgrounds we would like to organize two panels. The first
panel will discuss 1) how to incorporate collaboration into grid-based
e-learning systems, and 2) how to develop current scientific grid-based
collaboratories into more generic collaborative learning environments.
The second panel will discuss the development of curriculum for grid
education at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

For further information please visit:
http://research.ac.upc.edu/clag/clag2005.htm

Upcoming Events at NeSC
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5th Annual Dependability IRC workshop, 15 - 17 March 2005, Further
information about this event can be found at:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/467/

Induction to Grid Computing and the National Grid Service, 29 - 30 March
2005, Further information about this event can be found at:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/561/



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