For those interested in digital curation and digital stewardship, the following will be an interesting read: The 2015 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship outlines “emerging technological trends, gaps in digital stewardship capacity, and key areas for funding, research and development to ensure that today’s valuable digital content remains accessible and comprehensible in the future, supporting a […]
Abstract: Countless examples of standards, tools, and shared practices for digital curation exist, but do these puzzle pieces add up to a scalable infrastructure for Big Data? SEAD (Sustainable Environment: Actionable Data) is building a suite of services for end-to-end capture, sharing, analysis, publishing and preservation of data for researchers in sustainability science. Margaret Hedstrom, SEAD PI, will discuss SEAD’s efforts to align the needs and interests of diverse scientists with an evolving infrastructure for data preservation and access in the “long tail” of scientific research.
Margaret Hedstrom is a Professor at the School of Information, University of Michigan. Her current research interests include digital preservation strategies, sharing and reuse of scientific data, and the role of archives in shaping collective memory. She is PI for SEAD (Sustainable Environment: Actionable Data), an $8 million project funded by the US National Science Foundation, that is building cyberinfrastructure and developing new practices for data sharing, preservation, access and reuse. She also heads a NSF-sponsored traineeship (IGERT) at the University of Michigan called “Open Data” in partnership with faculty and doctoral students in bioinformatics, computer science, information science, materials science, and chemical engineering that is investigating tools and policies for data sharing and data management. She currently chairs a study committee for the National Research Council, National Academy of Science, on Digital Curation Workforce and Education Issues.
The lecture took place on October 30 at 4pm at the Faculty of Information, in Room 728 (7th floor) at the iSchool, Bissell Building, 140 St. George Street.
Margaret Hedstrom describes SEAD’s focus on the long-tail in scientific research.
On October 30, we will welcome Prof Margaret Hedstrom for our first lecture in the new academic year. The lecture will be at 4pm at the Faculty of Information in the Bissell building in room 728. Details on the lecture are here.
The SCAPE Planning and Watch suite demonstration of the preservation lifecycle has won the Best Demo award at DL2014,the conjoined conference for both the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries and the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries Conference series. Kresimir Duretec from Vienna University of Technology pitched the demonstration at the minute madness session: […]
Welcome to the new website of the Digital Curation Institute! The various content areas will be growing over the next months, so please come back, and please let us know what you think! Christoph Becker Director, Digital Curation Institute
The Digital Curation Institute (DCI) at the University of Toronto’s iSchool provides a rich, interdisciplinary environment for investigating principles and theory building related to the creation, management, use, interpretation and preservation of digital resources; conducting research on digital curation issues; and developing technologies and tools to support best practice in this area. It promotes innovative […]
As part of the Digital Curation Institute’s Lecture Series 2014, on March 24 guest speaker Caroline Kimbell gave the third DCI lecture 2014. Abstract (preliminary): The UK National Archives has taken a 25% cut in public funding since 2009. Although some jobs were lost and opening hours reduced from 6 to 5 days per week […]
As part of the Digital Curation Institute’s Lecture Series 2014, guest speaker Liz Lyon gave the second DCI lecture and held a graduate seminar on February 7. It is now ten years since the seminal Data Deluge paper which described the UK eScience Programme and highlighted the need for enhanced data curation capability. In her […]
As part of the Digital Curation Institute’s Lecture Series 2014, on January 20 guest speaker Christopher (Cal) Lee gave the first DCI lecture 2014 and held a hands-on workshop. Materials with cultural, administrative, scholarly and personal value are increasingly “born digital.” Collecting institutions —libraries, archives and museums (LAMs)—have unprecedented opportunities to acquire and preserve traces […]