Program Manager – Maine Shared Collections Strategy Grant (University of Maine, Maine) Fogler Library, University of Maine, Orono seeks a creative and dynamic librarian for a contingent on funding position, with grant funding for three years. …
Conference Announcement: Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation
Inge Angevaare has circulated the following:
Date: May 23-25, 2011
Location: Tallinn, Estonia Conference
Website: http://www.Educopia.org/events/ANADP
We are pleased to announce the “Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation” conference. This conference will enable preservation programs from different countries and regions to share information with each other for the purpose of building strategic international collaborations to support the preservation of …
Release of a new User Guide from the Keeping Research Data Safe (KRDS) project – news from Neil Beagrie
News from Neil Beagrie:
I am pleased to announce the release of a new User Guide from the Keeping Research Data Safe (KRDS) project on the costs and benefits of digital preservation of research data. The User Guide is available for download as a PDF from
http://www.beagrie.com/krds.php
The KRDS User Guide has been developed to support easier assimilation …
APARSEN Kick-Off
The APARSEN project will officially start on Jan 1st 2011. The Kick-Off meeting will be held on Jan 25-27 in Madrid.
ODE project launched
The ODE project has been launched with a meeting at Helsinki, following the APA conference there.
With representatives from the CERN, APA, British Library, STM, STFC, DNB, CSC, Helmholtz and LIBER with group laid plans so the project will have a have a flying start.
High Level Expert Group
On 6th October the report of the EU High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data (Term of Reference available here) will be delivered to Commissioner Neelie Kroes. Presentations about the report will be given before, and especially after, it is delivered.
David Giaretta is the rapporteur of the group.
While the report is very high level, taking …
