Category: #idcc15

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…

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 …

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.

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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 …