Angela Murillo

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.