The 'Datum for Health' Project at Northumbria University and the Digital
Preservation Coalition are delighted to announce that registration for
'Data For Life: Digital Preservation and Health Sciences' is now open -
http://www.dpconline.org/events/details/28-data4life?xref=27
The meeting is free and will be held at Northumbria University,
Newcastle upon Tyne, on 26th May.
Flexible and timely access to information has the potential to transform
professional practice and research in health studies and related
disciplines, but the promise can only be delivered if we can overcome
threats of obsolescence. A decade of research and development has begun
to make available the sorts of robust tools, techniques and services
which our generation will need to ensure that our digital memory is
accessible tomorrow. But the capacity to deliver long term access
remains focussed in the hands of a small number of specialists. This
skills shortage presents a key strategic challenge to the delivery of
fundamental services for medicine, health, wellbeing, and related
sectors where research data is highly confidential and may need to be
retained for long periods of time. Ethical, legislative and economic
imperatives mean that thoughtful but rapid development in robust
research data management policies and services will be required over the
next decade. Research data management skills are badly needed so that
new entrants into the health and medical professions are prepared for
the rapidly changing requirements of the information age.
This DPC briefing day, held in conjunction with the 'Datum for Health'
Project at Northumbria University, and sponsored by JISC, is intended to
introduce key concepts of digital preservation to students and
information managers working in the health and wellbeing sectors. It
will provide a forum to review and debate the latest development in the
preservation of digital qualitative research data in the health field
and it will initiate a discussion on how the necessary skills can most
effectively be developed. Based on commentary and case studies from
leaders in the field, participants will be presented with emerging tools
and technologies and will be encouraged to propose and debate the future
for these developments.
This event is free but places are limited and early registration is
recommended.
Professor Julie McLeod
School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences
Northumbria University
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Susan Childs
Research Fellow
Information Management Innovation Research Group (IMI)
School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences
Northumbria University
Pandon Building, Room 007 Camden St Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1XE
Tel: 0191 227 3761
Fax: 0191 243 7630
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Web site: www.northumbria.ac.uk/isrc
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