[ok-cam-announce] Fwd: Forthcoming seminar on "Managing Research Data in a Changing Digital Landscape" organised by the Incremental project, University of Cambridge 02/03/11

Tue Mar 1 13:49:55 UTC 2011

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Dear All,

As part of the Incremental project
(http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/preservation/incremental/), we are running a
series of fortnightly seminars, centred around some of the day-to-day
challenges that researchers are facing in managing their digital
research data.

This series is co-organised with the Digital Humanities Initiative at
the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
(CRASSH) http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/, as part of their Digital Forum
events programme, and will be held in the Centre's seminar room at 17
Mill Lane, Cambridge.

Our final seminar is next Wednesday

Managing Research Data in a Changing Digitial Landscape
Wednesday, 02 March 2011
12:00 - 14:00
Location: CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1532/

About the seminar:
New technologies and improvements in existing technologies are making
it possible to create, store, analyse and connect research data in
ever increasingly innovative ways. At the same time, these rapid
changes and diversity of technologies have created new challenges, as
software and hardware become obsolete and the original contexts of
data are lost.

This seminar brings together a panel of researchers to discuss their
experiences, practical solutions, and lessons learnt from using and
managing a variety of different data and data formats in their
research.

Dr. Paul Russell (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic) will
describe his experience of creating and maintaining a bespoke
database.

Dr. Lucy Farr (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research) will
speak about the challenges and lessons learned from using the
rapidly-evolving ArcGIS software package to record and analyse
archaeological data meant to last.

Dr. Fanar Haddad, author of  'Sectarianism in Iraq: Antagonistic
Visions of Unity' will speak about the challenges and benefits of
using YouTube and other crowd-generated platforms, as a research data
source for studying the Middle East.

Stephen Gray (University of Bristol, JISC Digital Media) will speak
about common and uncommon digital media formats, their discontents,
and how to reign them in.

The seminar will be chaired by Dr. Eleanor Robson (Department of
History & Philosophy of Science).

Please note we will be filming the seminar. If you do not wish to
appear in the film, or your remarks in the discussion to be recorded,
please let us know.

We would be very pleased if list members would forward details of
these seminars to relevant / interested colleagues.

Thanks!

To reserve a place at the seminar, and for more information about the
Incremental project, please contact Catharine Ward (cw330 [at]
cam.ac.uk).

-- 
Jonathan Gray

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