The Birds of a Feather sessions are a new addition to the roster at IDCC and offer the opportunity for people to get together with like-minded delegates and really explore a specific issue in some depth. I attended a packed session discussing the issue…
Category: #idcc15
Confessions of a Digital Archivist
I have a confession to make, I’m not from a University and I don’t have any Research Data Management experience. So why exactly did I attend IDCC this year?
IDCC15 session report: A Decade of Digital Curation
On day two of this year’s IDCC, CODATA Executive Director Simon Hodson chaired a plenary session on the topic of “A Decade of Digital Curation”, with an opportunity for reflection on where we’ve been, lessons learned, and how we…
Storify of the conference
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IDCC15 session A2: Curation Infrastructure, Education and Training
Session A2 provided two analyses of the current priorities and workflows of researchers as they go about their research activity. In both cases, the findings have potential use in improving institutional support for digital curation and research …
Reflections on #IDCC15: Why the road to broader take up of RDM is opening up
The three fundamental factors influencing RDM take up
The ‘Why is it taking so long panel’ discussion touched on two themes that are crucial in understanding the kind of environment that is conducive to take up of RDM. Geoff Bilder repeated…
A macroscope for UK web history
In one of the demo sessions at IDCC15, Andrew Jackson from the British Library demonstrated a web archiving service that supports researchers interested in exploring history through the web. The service aims to offer different ways of searching a…
IDCC15 session A1: Institutional Research Data Management
A strong theme of IDCC 2015 was whether progress has been made in RDM over the last ten years. Tuesday’s panel session A1, ‘Institutional RDM’ provided examples of progress made at specific institutions including limits, challenges, and variations in ambition of the RDM infrastructure in each case. All three case studies showed what can be achieved when motivated and resourceful staff are able to focus on the job of improving institutional RDM, and in two cases we saw the difference that can be made when institutional funds are invested in this important work.
Leading a Digital Curation ‘Lifestyle’: First day reflections on IDCC15
Okay that title is a joke, but an apt one to name a brief reflection of this year’s International Digital Curation Conference in London this week, with the theme of looking ten years back and ten years forward since the UK Digital Curation Centre…
IDCC15 Demo Sessions: Digital repositories with Islandora
Fedora (the repository software, not the Linux distribution, or the hat) is highly regarded for being stable, reliable and flexible but it is essentially back-end software. System developers are expected to put their own front-end on it before the end …