Dear Colleagues
LIASA Western Cape Higher Education Libraries Interest Group (WCHELIG) and the National Higher Education Libraries Interest Group (HELIG) host this one-day workshop presented by the Digital Curation Centre (Glasgow, UK), made possible by UCT’s Library and Information Studies Centre (LISC).
Presenters are Joy Davidson, Associate Director of the DCC and Sarah Jones, Senior Institutional Support Officer. Joy leads the DCC’s training provision and sits on a number of international working groups to define digital curricula. Sarah is mainly involved in the DCC institutional engagement programme, supporting universities to develop research data management services. She also contributes to the delivery of training, publications and tools development. Read more: Digital Curation Centre at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/about-us
This workshop builds on the DCC roadshow model. Joy and Sarah will explain the importance of Research Data Management (RDM), profile examples of how UK universities are developing services, and share practical lessons and tools to help you get started.
Date: Thursday 27 March 2014
Venue: CPUT Library, Bellville Campus
Costs: R100 for LIASA members; R150 for non-LIASA members
To register: http://conferences.sun.ac.za/index.php/liasa/rdms
Closing date: 23 March 2014
(Please no walk-ins, as space is limited)
The programme:
| 09:30 | Registration | |
| 09:45 | Welcome and Introduction | LIASA |
| 10:00 | RDM: what it’s all about, the benefits and drivers... | Joy Davidson, DCC |
| 10:30 | RDM initiatives in UK universities | Sarah Jones, DCC |
| 11:00 | Coffee | |
| 11:15 | CARDIO quick quiz & discussion. Exercise to assess your RDM readiness | All (exercise) |
| 12:00 | Reflections on the RDM position in South Africa | Lucia Lotter, HSRC |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Useful RDM tools and services – resources you can reuse | Joy Davidson, DCC |
| 14:00 | DMPonline – brief talk and demo | Sarah Jones, DCC |
| 14:45 | Developing a data roadmap for your institution | All (exercise) |
| 15:30 | Closing discussion | Joy & Sarah |
Ingrid Thomson
Subject Librarian: Humanities Information Division
Chancellor Oppenheimer Library
University of Cape Town Libraries
Tel: +27 21 650 3133
Fax: +27 21 650 2965
Chair: Western Cape Branch (2012 – 2014)
National EXCO Additional Member: Advocacy and Social Media (2012 – 2014)
Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA)
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN
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