Recent SILS graduate Sara Mannheimer has been appointed the new curator at Dryad Digital Repository, following the departure of Elena Feinstein in July. During her time as the interim curator, Mannheimer has already worked on Dryad’s draft preservation policy, sharing an award with doctoral student Ayoung Yoon for a poster outlining the policy’s creation presented at the annual ASIS&T meeting in Montreal.
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Angela Murillo presents Poster in Albuquerque
SILS Doctoral student Angela Murillo presented a poster entitled “Data Sharing and Reuse in the Sciences: An Investigation of Selected Cyberinfrastructure and Interoperability Elements” at the DataONE All-Hands meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico on October 22, 2013. The poster outlined the preliminary research for Ms. Murillo’s dissertation, which will focus on elements that facilitate or interfere with data sharing and reuse within the DataONE environment.
Dryad Poster wins ASIS&T Prize
The poster “Developing Preservation Policy for Dryad Digital Repository,” created by interim Dryad Curator Sara Mannheimer and SILS Doctoral student Ayoung Yoon has won a “Best Poster” prize at the 2013 annual ASIS&T meeting in Montreal, Canada. The poster described the efforts of the Dryad preservation working group in creating a draft preservation policy for the Dryad Digital Repository. The policy is an important step in Dryad’s digital preservation mission, and the draft will be presented to the Dryad Board of Directors in November.
7th Metadata & Semantics Research Conference
The 7th Metadata & Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2013) is currently running in Thessaloniki, Greece. The proceedings have already been posted online through Springer, and abstracts and papers are available for download.
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Dr. Jane Greenberg named NCDS Data Fellow
Dr. Jane Greenberg, director of the Metadata Research Center, has been named a 2014 Data Fellow by the National Consortium for Data Science. The fellowship will support Dr. Greenberg’s Metadata Capital Initiative, a project intended to help formulate and discover methods for assessing the ‘value’ of metadata, and how that value changes over time.
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Survey for controlled vocabulary users
We’re conducting a brief survey on the uses and challenges of controlled vocabularies. If you are a curator, administrator, or developer for a for a repository, or a researcher who has contributed data to a repository, please lend us 10-15 minutes of your time to help us learn about how you use controlled vocabularies, and how their utility can be improved. The survey can be found here.
Call for papers: MTSR 2013
The seventh International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2013) is coming to the Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece, from November 19-22, 2013.
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Call for participation: CAMP-4-DATA
Dublin Core-Science and Metadata Community and Research Data Alliance are hosting a day-long Metadata Interest Group workshop, CAMP-4-DATA, on Sept. 6, 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal. Submissions for participation are currently open in the areas of short papers, abstracts, and position statements. The intent of this workshop is to discuss and forward challenges and opportunities relating to metadata standards for the management of scientific data, and how policies, applications, and infrastructure can foster creation of and access to sustainable, open, and collective standards.
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Dryad Membership Meeting at St. Anne’s College, Oxford
What: Dryad Membership Meeting
Who: Dryad staff and members
When: 9am-6pm May 24, 2013
Where: St. Anne’s College, Oxford
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MRC Research Assistants appointed to ALCTS and MLA working groups
We are pleased to announce that Metadata Research Center Research Assistants Chelcie Rowell, MSIS ’13 and Jane Smith, MSIS ’13 have recently been appointed as members of working groups in professional organizations related to their interests.
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