Data curation

VIVO is a one-stop network of researchers, projects, and results that enables collaborative research discovery and interdisciplinary scholarship.

LGL map of the Internet by the Opte Project

From Mark Leggott, OR2013 Conference Chair, Sarah Shreeves, OR2013 Program Co-Chair and Jon Dunn, OR2013 Program Co-Chair

Winchester, MA  On June 11 Brian Lowe and Jim Blake from Cornell University presented, “VIVO Technical Deep Dive.”  This was the third and final webinar in the Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series, "Series Five: VIVO: Research Discovery and Networking” curated by Dean Krafft. 
 

St. Louis, MO  The 2013 VIVO Conference is set for August 14-16 in St. Louis. Clifford Lynch, Executive Director at CNI, and David Wood, Chief Technology Officer at 3 Round Stones, will be speakers at the Conference. There's still time to take advantage of early bird registration rates (June 21) and submit a poster (June 12): http://bit.ly/12AUGrA

Valletta, Malta  A one-day workshop  on "Linking and Contextualizing Publications and Datasets" will be held in Valletta, Malta, on September 26, 2013. The workshop is sponsored by OpenAIREplus (www.openaire.eu) and EuroCRIS (www.eurocris.org) and is being offered In conjunction with TPDL 2013 (www.tpdl2013.info).

Winchester, MA  On June 4 DuraSpace offered the second webinar in the Hot Topics DuraSpace Community Webinar Series, "Series Five: VIVO: Research Discovery and Networking.”  Alex Viggio, University of Colorado, Boulder, Steven McCauley, Brown University, Julia Trimmer, Duke University and Paul Albert, Weill Cornell Medical College presented, “Case Studies: VIVO at Colorado, Brown, Duke, and Weill Cornell Medical College.”  The webinar succeeded in showing both the commonalitie,s and in some ways, quite different approaches to VIVO at each of the i

Winchester, MA  The Fedora Futures team is very pleased to extend a warm welcome to Northeastern University. Northeastern is one of several institutions who are answering the a call for serious community re-investment in Fedora, "our core digital asset management and preservation service".

From Art Pasquinelli, Director Digital Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation, Oracle

Redwood City, CA  The next Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) webinar will be held on June 11 at 11:30am EST. The webinar is free for ASIS&T members and $20 for non-ASIS&T members. Register here:

http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-PASIG-6-11-2013-registe...

Title: Stewarding Research Data with Fedora and Islandora

Winchester, MA  An overview of this year's Open Repositories Conference is now available online. Main track sessions include many topics of interest: repository solutions for time-based media, strategies and best practices for current issues including open access, data management, data use, innovations in repository workflows, linked data use cases, cloud-based approaches to preservation, metrics applications and much more.