University of Washington Provost Ana Mari Cauce has allocated permanent funding to the eScience Institute to stimulate the hiring of faculty members who conduct cutting-edge research on methodologies for data-driven discovery, and whose teaching and outreach will put advanced tools and techniques into the hands of UW's broad base of outstanding researchers.
Description: "The focus of this project was on computer-mediated or computational scientific knowledge discovery, taken broadly as any research processes enabled by digital computing technologies. Such technologies may include data mining, information retrieval and extraction, artificial intelligence, distributed grid computing, and others. These technological capabilities support computer-mediated knowledge discovery, which some believe is a new paradigm in the conduct of research. The emphasis was primarily on digitally networked data, rather than on the scientific, technical, and medical literature. The meeting also focused mostly on the advantages of knowledge discovery in open networked environments, although some of the disadvantages were raised as well."
"A Data Curation Profile is a resource for Library and Information Science professionals, Archivists, IT professionals, Data Managers, and others who want information about the specific data generated and used in research areas and sub-disciplines that may be published, shared, and preserved for re-use."
Conference to be held at April 25-28, 2013
York University, Toronto, Canada. Deadline for submissions is November 12, 2012. Including the following topics:
libraries and preservation in 2023; digital traces and archives
new publics, movements going global and communities of the future
manifestos for the next generation
new stories for new screens: e-literatures, immersive/augmented worlds, future cinema, games
ways of working - methodologies, code, communities, funding
future classrooms, curricula, and pedagogies
maker movements; -- tools we haven't built yet, but that we desperately need
visualization and data-driven futures
mobility, future city spaces, built and liquid architectures
crowdsourcing (and/in) the future
teleologies and their discontents
new and imagined creative practices
A research brief issued for public comment by the US Department of Education which discusses a research agenda for how dating mining can inform educational decision making and outcomes
Fourth Annual University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium Wednesday, April 4, 2012 Hoagland-Pincus Center Shrewsbury, Mass. features presentations and posters
With increased pressure on universities and researchers to preserve research data for re-use in the future, JISC's Research Integrity Conference considered the role of universities in safeguarding research integrity and looked into the real issues being faced by universities from a strategic and technical perspective
The Journal of Digital Humanities is a comprehensive, peer-reviewed, open access journal that features the best scholarship, tools, and conversations produced by the digital humanities community in the previous quarter.