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DL2014 Tutorial: Preserving Data to Preserving Research

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Digital Libraries 2014

From Preserving Data to Preserving Research: Curation of Process and Context (Tutorial 3)

The TIMBUS and Wf4Ever projects team up to address the challenges of curating research processes in the humanities and sciences. Come along for a morning tutorial of presentations and demos on Day 1 at Digital Libraries 2014.

When: Monday 8 September at 09.00 until 13.00

Where: Room D221 in the social sciences building - modern glass building located just off St John Street, opposite the College Building

Interactive Map: http://www.city.ac.uk/visit#9601=1

If you have not yet signed up please just come along.

ONLINE REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED - REGISTER AT EVENT

How to Register for the Tutorial:

• Go to the DL2014 Registration Page: http://www.city.ac.uk/digital-libraries-2014/registration

• Choose your level of affiliation and click 'Book a Place at the Conference'

• On the next page, scroll down to 'Digital Libraries Tutorial(s) Only' and add to the basket

• In the Questionnaire page that follows, under 'Please advise what workshop(s)/tutorial(s) you wish to attend', write: From Preserving Data to Preserving Research: Curation of Process and Context (Tutorial 3)

• Click 'Next' then proceed to checkout

Agenda

09.00 Start

Introduction

Process Preservation & Demonstration Video

Research Object Tools Introduction

Coffee Break

Research Object Tools and Demonstration

Data Citation

Panel Discussion & Conclusions

13.00 End

ABSTRACT

Awareness of the need to provide digital preservation solutions is spreading from the core memory institutions to other domains, including government, industry, SME and consumers. In many of these settings we are, however, faced with preserving more than just data. In the domain of eScience, for example, investigations are increasingly collaborative. Most scientific and engineering domains benefit from building on top of the outputs of other research by sharing information to reason over and data to incorporate in the modelling task at hand.

This raises the need to provide means for preserving and sharing entire eScience workflows and processes for later reuse. We need to define which information is to be collected, create means to preserve it and approaches to enable and validate the re-execution of a preserved process. This includes and goes beyond preserving the data used in the experiments, as the process underlying its creation and use is essential.

This half-day tutorial will provide an introduction to the problem domain and discuss solutions for the curation of eScience processes. The tutorial is aimed at researchers, publishers and curators in eScience disciplines who want to learn about methods.