The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) and the Metadata Research Center (MRC) have been developing Dryad in coordination with a large group of journals and societies in evolutionary biology and ecology. With the new grant, the additional team members are contributing to the development of the repository. (More information about the award can be found here.)
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NC Health Info website featured on RENCI blog
The NC Health Info website is featured on the RENCI (Renaissance Computing Institute) blog. The entry is entitled, “Metadata Matters.” For more information, please see the Automatic Metadata Maintenance for NC Health Info and Go Local (AMMGO) project page.
OCLC’s Ed O’Neill visits School of Information and Library Science
Ed O’Neill is a Senior Research Scientist, OCLC. His research focuses on authority control, subject analysis, database quality, preservation, and collection management. He joined the OCLC Research staff as a Senior Research Scientist in 1983, and served as co-acting Director of Research from 1993 until 1994.
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New Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Community: Science and Metadata (SAM)
Following a workshop session on Metadata for Scientific Datasets at DC-2008, a new DCMI Community has been set up under the name of the DCMI Science and Metadata Community (SAM). We welcome participation from individuals and organizations interested in all aspects of metadata relating to scientific data. To learn more about this community, or become involved, visit the Community’s website at Dublin Core and the Metadata Research Center’s SAM website.
CRADLE Seminar: Celebrating Darwin Day — Metadata Research and the Dryad Repository Project
The Dryad repository is for scientific data supporting published research in the field of evolutionary biology and related disciplines. Dryad was launched via a collaboration between the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), an NSF Center supporting research in evolutionary biology, and the Metadata Research Center (MRC) at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Dr. Jim Balhoff visits School of Information and Library Science
On Monday, November 3, 2008, Dr. Jim Balhoff, a research programmer at NESCent (the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center) visited Jane Greenberg’s Metadata class to discuss ontologies and the NCBO BioPortal.
DICE Group Lecture
Drs. Reagan Moore and Richard Marciano, Professors at the School of Information and Library Science, UNC Chapel Hill, and members of the Data Intensive Cyber Environments (DICE) research group, will be giving a lecture entitled, “Policy-driven metadata for distributed collections,” on November 24, 2008.
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Two repository development positions available
The Dryad Data Repository has two open programming positions located in central North Carolina: (1) a general repository programmer and (2) a programmer focused on enhancing metadata records with controlled vocabulary terms.
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Open Archives Initiative (OAI): Situation and Prospects in Spain and Latin America
Metadata Research Center Visiting Scholar, Gema Bueno de la Fuente, announces the publication of Open Archives Initiative (OAI): Situation and Prospects in Spain and Latin America.
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Metadata for Scientific Datasets Workshop at Dublin Core 2008
Metadata for Scientific Datasets (MeS) workshop will be held during the 2008 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications in Berlin.