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2012-04-10
CIRSS Researchers at 2012 Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit
CIRSS researchers presented two posters at the third annual annual ASIS&T Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit (http://rdap12.posterous.com), held 22-23 March 2012 in New Orleans, LA.  Topics explored at this year's summit included data management plans and policies; training of data management practitioners; discovery of research data; data curation service models; sustainability of data management; and data curation.The two posters report on CIRSS activities on the ...

2012-02-13
CIRSS Researchers at iConference 2012
CIRSS faculty, students and staff attended the 2012 iConference (http://www.ischools.org/iConference12/2012index/), an annual gathering information scholars, researchers and practitioners led by the iSchools consortium of information schools (http://www.ischools.org/site/about/).  The 2012 iConference took place in Toronto, Ontario, February 6-10 2012.Workshops, presentations and posters by CIRSS researchers include: Blake, C. & Palmer, C. "Data Science and Analytics: What Is in...

2011-06-28
Chao, Weber, and Sacchi Present at Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
  CIRSS graduate students Tiffany Chao, Nicholas Weber, and Simone Sacchi presented posters at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries this month, which took place in Ottawa, Canada, from June 13-June 17. The theme for this year's conference was "Digital Libraries: Bringing Together Scholars, Scholarship and Research Data." Analytic Potential of Data: Assessing Reuse ValueCarole L. Palmer; Nicholas M. Weber; Melissa H. Cragin This poster represents the first&nb...

2011-05-24
CIRSS hosts the 2011 Summer Institute on Data Curation at GSLIS
  The Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) will host the 2011 Summer Institute on Data Curation at GSLIS, from Monday, June 6, through Thursday, June 9. Twenty-six applicants were accepted to this year’s Summer Institute, with support from the Data Conservancy and the IMLS-funded Data Curation Education Program. For more information, please read the full story on the GSLIS webpage.   ...

2011-02-11
Simone Sacchi wins Best Poster award at iConference 2011
  GSLIS student and CIRSS RA Simone Sacchi received the “Best Poster” award at the 2011 iSchools Conference for his poster entitled “Annotation evolution: how Web 2.0 technologies are enabling a change in annotation practices.” Sachhi is a Ph.D. student and a research assistant at the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) under the NSF-funded Data Conservancy project. His poster examines how Web 2.0 tools and technologies are changi...