Angela Murillo

About ready to hear a great talk.

http://www.niso.org/news/events/2012/dcmi/scientific_data/

Here’s the information:

About the Webinar

The past few years have seen increased attention to national and international policies for data archiving and sharing. Chief motivators include the proliferation of digital data and a growing interest in research data and supplemental information as a part of the framework for scholarly communication. Key objectives include not only preservation of scientific research data, but making data accessible to verify research findings and support the reuse and repurposing of data.

Metadata figures prominently in these undertakings, and is critical for the success of any data repositories or archiving initiative, hence increased attention to metadata for scientific data — specifically for metadata standards development and interoperability, data curation and metadata generation processes, data identifiers, name authority control (for scientists), Linked Data, ontology and vocabulary work, and data citation standards.

This NISO/DCMI webinar will provide a historical perspective and an overview of current metadata practices for managing scientific data, with examples drawn from operational repositories and community-driven data science initiatives. It will discuss challenges and potential solutions for metadata generation, identifiers, name authority control, Linked Data, and data citation.

Speakers

Jane Greenberg, professor at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of the SILS Metadata Research Center, is well known for research and writing on topics ranging from automatic metadata creation to metadata best practices, ontology research, Semantic Web, data repositories, thesauri, and scientific data curation. She has served as Principal Investigator or partner on a number of grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Health, and actively participates in organizations such as the American Library Association, American Society for Information Science and Technology, and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Jane is the recipient of the 2012 Margaret Mann Citation from the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS).

Thomas Baker, Chief Information Officer of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, has recently co-chaired the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and the W3C Incubator Group on Library Linked Data.

This week I will be giving a brief presentation at the LOV Symposium in Madrid, Spain at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (http://www.uc3m.es) regarding my DataONE research on metadata registries.  This will be part of the student lightening talks

The focus of the symposium is to have “a day long-symposium to addresses challenges, solutions, and research specific to linking and opening vocabularies on the global web.”

For more information, here is the website, http://klingon.uc3m.es/hive-es/wiki/index.php/Symposium-en

Looking forward to a great symposium and to hearing what others are working on!

http://www.nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/events/mardonio-maga%C3%B1-circa-1938

Next Friday, January 6th is the 2012 DigCCurr Public Symposium!

This year’s title is “CurateGear: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections”.   CurateGear will be an interactive, day-long event focused on digital curation tools and methods. See demonstrations, hear about the latest developments, and discuss application in professional contexts.

For more information and to register visit the symposiums website at: http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/2012symposium.html.

Looking forward to hearing about the various tools and methods that the speakers will be discussing and demonstrating.

This week I’m at the International Digital Curation Centre Conference in Bristol, UK.  http://www.dcc.ac.uk/.   The conference has been a whirlwind of meeting great people, hearing thoughtful talks, and seeing excellent posters.  I always appreciate how much the iDCC conference really challenges me to think about my own research and push it further, as well as have fun in the process.  This year, the conference is in Bristol, which I’ve never been to before.  Its lovely here, but chilly compared to Chapel Hill.  There are plenty of places to walk around and good museums near the conference hotel.
I did present a poster with my fellow fellows of DigCCurr, http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr/index.html, that investigated the current digital curation certificate programs in several universities in the United States and received some really nice feedback, many people wanting to know more than we were able to fit on the poster.

This week I’m at the AERI, Archival Education and Research Institution in Boston, it has been a fantastic week!

I am presenting a poster, with my co-author.  The poster is titled “Use and Non-Use of Social Media in Scholarly Research”.  We conducted a study that explores how scholars, specifically natural scientists, are using or not using social media during their research process.

Here’s a link to the site:  http://aeri.gseis.ucla.edu/2011.html.  I’m already excited for next year, great people, great conversation!

Since I’ve had several people ask me what the photos are on the banner I will explain them all left to right.  All of these except for one (#3) were taken by me on various travels.

Photos:

#1 Eiffel Tower

#2 The British Museum

#3 Mardonio Magana.  My great-great-great grandfather with one of his sculptures.  For more information see, http://escultormagana.com

#4 Plaza de Espana – Sevilla, Spain

#5 Casa de Pilatos – Sevilla, Spain

#6 Gibraltar

Next week is International Open Access Week,
October 18th to October 24th.

Here is the link to the homepage: http://www.openaccessweek.org

Here is the link to some of the UNC-Library activities:  http://www.lib.unc.edu/scholcom/openaccessweek.html

I hope to follow up this post with some of the activities I attend next week.

This Friday is SILS Doctoral Student Symposium.  I’m looking forward to seeing what my fellow doctoral students are working on.  I’m sure I’ll be presenting next year.  Information is below.