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Jonathan Gray | 9 Feb 23:26
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Virtual meeting on open (government) data catalogues

Hi all,

On Thursday 11th February (at 16-19 CET) we're having a virtual
meeting to discuss open (government) data catalogues. If you are
working on a data catalogue we'd love to hear from you (and to try to
ensure different efforts are interoperable). If you are interested in
contributing to an open data catalogue in your country - we'd love to
hear from you!

Details at:

 http://blog.okfn.org/2010/02/09/interested-in-making-an-open-data-catalogue-virtual-meeting-on-11th-february-2010/

Please feel free to forward this to relevant colleagues and lists.

All the best,

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Jonathan Gray | 9 Feb 22:28
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Fwd: Latest news about upcoming Science Commons Symposium - Pacific Northwest

For those of you that haven't yet seen it...

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Science Commons Symposium – Pacific Northwest:

http://sciencecommons.org/events/salon/
http://scs.eventbrite.com/

John Wilbanks is the VP of Science at Creative Commons and heads the
Science Commons project.  John and the Science Commons team help
people and organizations from every part of the scientific ecosystem
lift legal and technical barriers to research and discovery.

Heather Joseph is the Executive Director at SPARC, the Scholarly
Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. She leads SPARC’s
advocacy efforts to support widespread adoption of open access to
scholarly research.

Antony Williams is a leader in the domain of free access chemistry. He
is the VP of Strategic Development for the Royal Society of Chemistry,
and the founder of ChemZoo Inc., the original host of ChemSpider prior
to acquisition by RSC.

Jean-Claude Bradley is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and the
E-Learning Coordinator at Drexel University.

Cameron Neylon is a biophysicist who has always worked in
interdisciplinary areas and is a leading advocate of data availability
and open science.

Stephen Friend is the founder and president of Sage, a not-for-profit
medical research organization designed to revolutionize how
researchers approach the complexity of human biological information
and the treatment of disease.

Peter Binfield is the publisher of the online journal PLoS ONE, one of
the journal offerings of the Public Library of Science, and is a
respected innovator and analyst in the fields of online science,
scholarly publishing (both Open Access and mainstream/commercial), and
scientific communication.

Peter Murray-Rust is an accomplished chemist, a faculty member of
Churchill College at the University of Cambridge, a leader in the Open
Data movement, a founding member of the Blue Obelisk organization.

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Jonathan Gray | 9 Feb 18:59
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Fwd: JISC GRANT CALL 13/09: DEVELOPING COMMUNITY CONTENT

Hmm.. wonder if any OKF projects (or proposed projects) have a good fit here?

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Apologies for Cross Posting
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Further to the announcement last week on the HEFCE funding decision.
I am pleased to inform you know that Strand II of the Developing
Community Content has now been re-issued.

The JISC Executive have revised the dates and the new deadline for
receipt of proposals is 12 Noon UK time on Monday 15 March 2010.
Projects must now start by 1 May 2010 and should run for a maximum of
11 months and finish in March 2011.  The deadline for bids in response
to Strand I has now passed.

A full version of the call can be found at
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2009/12/1309bce.aspx

An announcement on the revised deadlines for the managing research
data grant funding call will be circulated in the next few weeks.

Avalon McAllister
JISC Executive
Tel: 0117 9317124
Mobile: 07841 951 294
Fax: 0117 9317255
Email: a.mcallister@...

Please visit our web site at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/

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Subject: News Release: HEFCE funding decision

News release

3 February 2010

HEFCE funding decision

As a result of the Higher Education Funding Council for England's (HEFCE)
recent board meeting, JISC is able to confirm that the funding calls which
had previously been postponed on 5 January 2010, as a consequence of HEFCE's
review of JISC's capital funding, will now take place.

The managing research data grant funding call
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2009/12/1409researchdata.aspx14/09
and strand two of the developing community content grant funding call
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2009/12/1309bce.aspx
13/09
will now go ahead with some amendments.

The revised calls, along with deadlines for proposals which were postponed
will be published shortly at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities.aspx
A message will be sent to this mailing list when the revised calls are
available.

The deadline for proposals for phase one of the developing community content
grant funding call 12/09 remains the same at 8 February 2010.

If you have questions relating to a bid or invitation to tender please email
funding@...

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Jonathan Gray | 9 Feb 18:35
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Fwd: 200k fund for products using data.gov.uk

FYI

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Hi all.

Apologies in advance if this is me misusing the list, but if you've
not clocked this already, Channel 4's 4iP digital innovation fund has
teamed up with Facebook and have up to £200k to fund suitable 4iP
projects using data from http://data.gov.uk or
http://data.london.gov.uk/.

More info here:
http://www.4ip.org.uk/blog/post/facebook_link_up_with_4_the_people/

If you're interested then here's what we're looking for:

- Ideas must cause trouble (in a good way) and inspire change.
- We're looking for ideas that have potential for high impact. They
must appeal to the mainstream not just to special interest groups.
- Ideas must be sustainable, preferably financially sustainable.  We
think the best vessel for your product is a business, though groups of
volunteers can also work a la wikipedia. We can help with some of the
thinking, but you must have the ambition.
- Ideas must use at least one of the data sources or content from
data.gov.uk or the London Datastore
- This funding is only available to companies / individuals based in
the UK (or willing to move to the UK)

Submit your ideas through http://4ip.org.uk/submit before 28th Feb.

Apologies if this kind of email breaks any list rules, I just figured
here be the talent.

All the usuals
-Tom

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Jonathan Gray | 9 Feb 13:22
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IRC meeting tonight (2010-02-09) from 1800 GMT on #okfn at irc.oftc.net

Hi all,

We're planning to meet up tonight on the #okfn IRC channel
(irc.oftc.net) at 1800 GMT.

You can connect using a web browser at: http://ur1.ca/4fh

If anyone's got anything they'd like to discuss, propose or work on,
please drop in!

Details of this and other (virtual) events are on the Google Calendar at:

  http://wiki.okfn.org/Events

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Jonathan Gray | 7 Feb 15:07
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Comments on OKF poster

A belated note to say thanks for your comments on the first go at an
OKF poster, Andrew!

I'll link to these from the wiki page:

  http://wiki.okfn.org/Publicity

All the best,

Jonathan

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Andrew Mackenzie
<a.mackenzie@...> wrote:

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> Jonathan
> It’s good, but you could consider:
>
> Skip headline, let graphics do the attention grab
> Intro para: cut hyphen, focus. Put organisation at the end
> Like the bold, but put the emphasis on the thing not the project name and
> make it consistent throughout.
> Cut the dashes
> Bullet points essential?
> The graphics are a great selection. If you have time for layout, try to
> overlap them to give an irregular boundary. Vary the sizes.
> If you need a low-cost version for mono laser printing use the B/W graphic
> but large. Put it behind the text @ 50% opacity. Does the networked thing
> for your message.
> If you use black, 2 levels of grey and regular/bold you can have a lot of
> depth in the text. So if you don’t have time to mess about with graphic
> layout it’s not a big problem.
> CC credits for graphics in small print along the bottom.
> Now I wish I hadn’t started and so do you. Damn. Just pick out anything
> which is helpful and ignore the rest.
> Attached edit of the copy.
> best
> Andrew
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>
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Jonathan Gray | 6 Feb 14:46
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Fwd: FW: Data Dimensions: Disciplinary Differences in Research Data Sharing, Reuse and Long term Viability

This looks interesting...

J.

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***Apologies for Cross Posting***

Anyone involved in storing and curating research data knows well that
disciplines do things differently. Whether we see research domains as
a thousand blooming flowers or a tower of Babel, that diversity
presents challenges for data curation. Through a series of seven case
studies in different disciplines, the Digital Curation Centre’s SCARP
project aimed to help understand these challenges and build on current
digital data management and preservation practices in each case.

One of this JISC-funded project's final outputs is a synthesis study
and the DCC is pleased to announce the report "Data Dimensions:
Disciplinary Differences in Research Data Sharing, Reuse and Long term
Viability", which has been written by Key Perspectives.

This synthesis report draws on the SCARP case studies plus a number of
others (identified in the Appendix), and identifies factors that help
understand how curation practices in research groups differ in
disciplinary terms. This provides a backdrop to different digital
curation approaches.

The synthesis report and individual case studies are available for
download at www.dcc.ac.uk/scarp.

Graham Pryor
Associate Director
Digital Curation Centre
Edinburgh EH8 9LE
+44 (0)131 650 9985
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/

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Dr Simon HODSON
Programme Manager – e-Research – Managing Research Data
JISC Executive
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M2: +44 (0) 7891 501 174
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Blog: http://researchdata.jiscinvolve.org/
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Jonathan Gray | 3 Feb 15:11
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NASA GISS interested in Clearer Climate Code

Some of you may have seen the following guest post from Clearer
Climate Code on OKF blog:

  http://blog.okfn.org/2010/01/28/clear-climate-code-and-data/

Very pleased to learn that NASA GISS are thinking about using their code!

  http://clearclimatecode.org/nasa-giss-wants-to-use-our-code/

What a nice story. ;-)

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Dr. Sridhar Gutam ARS | 5 Feb 13:38
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NARS Open Access Survey

Greetings!!

We are doing a survey on Open Access in NARS the url of the survey is <http://survey.oksociety.in/index.php?sid=85161&amp;lang=en>

Kindly participate in it.

Thanks & Regards
sridhar gutam

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Jonathan Gray | 3 Feb 11:45
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Fwd: FOSS4G 2010 Call for Abstract

Would be great to put in something to this on CKAN for geospatial
data! Anyone interested in co-drafting/attending?

J.

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Group: Open Source Geospatial Foundation
Subject: FOSS4G 2010 Call for Abstract

We are pleased to announce the Call for Abstract for the FOSS4G (Free
and Open Source Software for Geospatial) 2010 conference, being held
September 6-9, in beautiful Barcelona, Spain.
Held annually, FOSS4G is the premier conference for the open source
geospatial community, providing a full-immersion experience in
established and leading edge geospatial technologies for developers,
users, and people new to open source geospatial.

http://2010.foss4g.org

FOSS4G 2010 presentations are 25 minute talks, with 5 minute question
and answer sessions at the end. Presentations cover the use or
development of open source geospatial software. Anyone can can submit
a presentation proposal and take part in the conference as a
presenter.

Read full information at: http://www.osgeo.org/foss4g/2010/call_for_abstracts
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Philippe Aigrain | 3 Feb 11:18
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Coverage in France for OKFN study on Open Data in France

http://www.agoravox.fr/tribune-libre/article/etat-des-lieux-de-l-opendata-
en-69266

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