euroCRIS Spring 2013 Membership Meeting in Bonn

Posted by on May 17, 2013 in ISC News, Trip Reports | 0 comments

Just back from the euroCRIS Spring 2013 membership meeting which was held in Bonn this week, 13-14 May at the Deutsche...

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euroCRIS membership meeting in Madrid

Posted by on Nov 8, 2012 in ISC News, Trip Reports | 0 comments

Just returned from the euroCRIS membership meeting in Madrid, the largest to date, with around 80 participants. euroCRIS  is showing a...

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Knowledge Exchange Digital Author Identifier Summit

Posted by on Mar 16, 2012 in Trip Reports | 1 comment

An important milestone meeting on digital identifiers was held earlier this week in the Tower Hill area of London by the Knowledge Exchange, an international information science strategy group representing the UK, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. There were also representatives present from a number of other countries including Australia, Italy, Norway, the United States, from the international publisher Elsevier and from the ORCID initiative. The meeting at the former Royal Mint, convened by the JISC on 13-14 March 2010, focussed on Digital Author Identifiers and was primarily concerned with uniquely identifying researchers and other academic staff in a cost-effective, internationally agreed and scalable way that has not hitherto been achieved.

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ISC starts work on Discovery

Posted by on Feb 16, 2012 in ISC News, Project Startup, Trip Reports | 0 comments

Last Monday, I attended a meeting with Mimas, the co-ordinators of the JISC funded Discovery Programme in order to start planning the...

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JISC RIM3 project meeting in Edinburgh

Posted by on Jan 16, 2012 in ISC News, Trip Reports | 0 comments

Last week I participated in a useful kickoff meeting for projects funded in the third phase of the JISC Research Information Management...

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Trip Report: Blogging Practices Session at the JISC MRD Launch Event (#jiscmrd)

Posted by on Dec 5, 2011 in Events, ISC Outputs, Trip Reports | 0 comments

On Thursday, 1 December 2011 I attended the JISC Managing Research Data Launch Meeting which was held at the National College for School...

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