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A Digital Repository for Preservation and Sharing of Data Underlying Published Works in Evolutionary Biology. Dryad, a collaboration between the MRC and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), is awarded $650,999.

Fourteen students from the Triangle community participated in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s first BotCamp on July 31 through August 2. BotCamp is part of BOT 2.0, an innovative program featuring a curriculum that weaves together four key themes – botany, environmental conservation, the use of social technologies and metadata literacy. (More information about the program can be found here.)

The Memex Project, including comments from Jane Greenberg, John Oberlin, and Dan Reed, are described in “You: Film at Eleven”, an article by Laura Granfortuna in the Winter 2007 issue of Endeavors: Research and Creative Activity.

Jane Greenberg and Eva Méndez, Guest Editors.

Monograph will also be simultaneously published as Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 43(3/4): http://www.catalogingandclassificationquarterly.com/ccq43nr3-4.html

“Digital data preservation, sharing, and discovery: Challenges for Small Science Communities in the Digital Era”
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Scott Carlson quotes Jane Greenberg in his article: On The Record, All the Time: Researchers Digitally Capture the Daily Flow of Life. Should They?, a look at lifelogging tools and research in the Chronicle of Higher Education, 53(23): A30.

Dr. Greenberg will start her two-year McColl Term Professorship in July 2007.

A joint project of NESCent and the UNC Metadata Research Center “to establish a repository for heterogeneous digital datasets in the field of evolutionary biology in order to ensure long-term preservation and promote resource discovery and reuse.”

Metadata Tools for Digital Resource Repositories Workshop at JCDL 2006 in Chapel Hill, NC, USA. The workshop was an official DCMI Tools Working Group event. The one day workshop facilitated dialog among people interested in metadata tools–including tool developers, companies, and users.