The SCIDIP-ES project is conducting an on-line user consultation (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/57YTKQL) to understand the current architectures, technologies and approaches used by data repositories and users, with an initial focus on the Earth Science community, for the purposes of data preservation, access and management.
The SCIDIP-ES team, and the APA, would like to invite you to participate in …
Your information needed for the SCIDIP-ES e-infrastructure design
View of the APA conference from India
A report about the APA conference has been put on the web site of the Indian Centre of Excellence for Digital Preservation – see http://www.ndpp.in/index.php/events/apa-2011.html
New APA Strategic Plan published
The APA Strategic Plan for the period 2011-2015 has been published: .
CODATA ‘Data At Risk’ Task Group (DARTG) set up
CODATA has created a new Task Group with the goal of creating an Inventory of data that are at risk, and whose unique scientific information is in danger of being lost to posterity. The Task Group is chaired by Elizabeth Griffin, with John Faundeen as vide chair.
See the web site at http://ils.unc.edu/~janeg/dartg/ for more details
Job vacancy at SLAC-Stanford U.S. : INSPIRE web developer (with a twist on data preservation)
SLAC – Stanford is seeking an operational web developer for the INSPIRE repository, built on the Invenio digital-library software. INSPIRE is a dynamic international collaboration which is building, enhancing and operating the INSPIRE information service, a key working tool for 50,000 scientists worldwide to access crucial research information.  INSPIRE has …
Notification of roadmaps published by the European Commission
Dear Sir or Madam,
The Commission has just published a number of roadmaps concerning some of the policy areas you selected when registering your organisation in the Transparency Register.
The roadmaps concern the following policy areas:
Research and Technology
Audiovisual and Media
Information Society
To consult all the existing roadmaps please refer to the following website:
http://ec.europa.eu/governance/impact/planned_ia/planned_ia_en.htm
For further information please consult the …
Invitation to DIGOIDUNA final event
The European Commission (e-Infrastructures Unit) kindly invites you to attend the workshop on
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December 2nd, 2011 (9:00 – 11:30)
British Library Conference Centre
96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB, UK
http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/quickinfo/loc/stp/index.html
Program
08:45 – 09:00:  Registration and gathering together
09:00 – 09: 05: Welcome …
ODE Report on Integration of Data and Publications published
ODE has published a Report on Integration of Data and Publications.
Scholarly communication is the foundation of modern research where empirical evidence is interpreted and communicated as published hypothesis driven research. Many current and recent reports highlight the impact of advancing technology on modern research and consequences this has on scholarly communication. As part of the …
Audit and Certification of repositories comes of age
After many years of steady, patient, work, the standard for Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories has been published. It is available free of charge from CCSDS 652.0-M-1, and will, in a short while, be available on the ISO site as ISO 16363 – for a fee.
It derives from the Reference Model for an …
CINES joins APA
We are pleased to announce that CINES has joined the APA.
C.I.N.E.S. (Centre Informatique National de l’Enseignement Supérieur), is located in Montpellier (France), and offers computer services to the scientific community in public research and higher education. It is a public national institution, under the authority of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
CINES operates state …
