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The Embedding Institutional Data Curation Services in Research (EIDCSR) project arises from the range of activities carried out through an Oxford scoping study, a cross-agency collaborative effort to scope the requirements to manage and curate research data generated by Oxford researchers. A requirements gathering exercise took place with around 40 interviews with researchers across disciplines. Service units in Oxford were also consulted to identify their data management services and identify gaps in service provision. Moreover, the project contributed to the UK Research Data Service feasibility study and the JISC funded DISC-UK DataShare project.

Experts exchange their practical knowledge and experiences on digital preservation. Day 1 - 19.10.2011 "GETTING READY FOR DIGITAL PRESERVATION" The necessary "preparations" and fundamental decisions are the most underestimated challenges of digital preservation. But especially those tasks are bumps in the road which, if they aren't addressed early on, will remain constant challenges through the process of digital preservation. For those reasons the first block of the conference is dedicated to different aspects of necessary preparations and fundamental decisions. Experiences made in daily work of libraries and archives are presented and ways of dealing with challenges are communicated to the attendees. The following questions should be answered in this block: * How can a meaningful contextual and technical selection of holdings for digital preservation be made? * Which collections and digital objects should be dealt with first? * What expectations do users have in digital preservation? What do those expectations mean for the digital preservation process? * Should objects be normalized before ingest / when entering the collection? If so, how? What are recommended formats? * What gaps exist between existing digital preservation systems and institutional requirements? * What risks exist for different types of data and material? * What does the implementation of digital preservation mean for an institution? Which steps need to be considered? What are the challenges? * Which aspects of digital preservation are unanswered as of today / what are the main areas of further development, research and action? Day 2 - 20.10.2011 THE INGEST PROCESS FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF DIGITAL MATERIAL Ingest describes the entire process of information transfer into the digital archive. The focus of this presentation block will be practitioner reports about experiences made in the development and implementation of ingest workflows for differe

The Halogen project is part funded by JISC in the Research Data Management theme to implement a cross disciplinary research database to support the Roots of the British collaboration at the University of Leicester.

The DC-2011 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications keynote speakers are Mikael Nilsson, Google and Emmanuelle Bermès, Centre Pompidou. The remainder of the conference program on 22-23 September consists of peer reviewed papers, project reports and posters. Pre-conference activities on 21 September include either: (1) a full day of tutorials with Stephanie Taylor (UKOLN), Antoine Issac (Web an Media Group, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Paul Hermans (Erfgoedplus.be ('heritage-plus')), and Emma Tonkin (UKOLN); or (2) a full day special session on Vocabulary Management and Alignment. DCMI Community working sessions are held throughout the conference.

The DataTrain teaching materials have been designed to familiarise post-graduate students in good practice in looking after their research data. A central tenet is the importance of thinking about this in conjunction with the projected outputs and publication of research projects.

"Change we are leading" is the theme of CLOUD 2011. Cloud Computing has become a scalable services consumption and delivery platform in the field of Services Computing. The technical foundations of Cloud Computing include Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Virtualizations of hardware and software. The goal of Cloud Computing is to share resources among the cloud service consumers, cloud partners, and cloud vendors in the cloud value chain. The resource sharing at various levels results in various cloud offerings such as infrastructure cloud (e.g. hardware, IT infrastructure management), software cloud (e.g. SaaS focusing on middleware as a service, or traditional CRM as a service), application cloud (e.g. Application as a Service, UML modeling tools as a service, social network as a service), and business cloud (e.g. business process as a service).

Classification & Ontology is the third biennial conference in a series of UDC Seminars organized by the UDC Consortium and hosted by The National Library of the Netherlands. Ontology-like representations of classifications are recognized as potentially important facilitators in creating a web of linked data (the Semantic Web).The objective of this conference is to promote collaboration and exchange of expertise between different fields dealing with knowledge classifications: bibliographic, web and AI.

Part three focuses on the impacts cloud will have on buyers and service providers.

Part two focuses on the challenges cloud will present for buyers and providers of services.

With cloud computing becoming an increasingly important element of the IT function of most organizations, this five-part report presents a state-of-the-art review of the key features of cloud computing and its likely near-term and long-term development trends.

DataFlow will be hardening a prototype developed in the JISC-funded ADMIRAL project. ADMIRAL allowed researchers to upload and share very large (terabyte-sized) datasets on the cloud.

The Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) at Queen Mary, University of London has embarked on a three year project to undertake academic research in relation to cloud computing and to disseminate the key findings of that research.

The previous paper pointed major disruptive impacts of cloud as a business service. The changing technological base together with the disrupters will channel many innovative services and reconfiguration of the supply industry.

Free Cloud Computing and the Law toolkit for FE and HE professionals. Whether you work in a teaching, research, management or support capacity, the aim is to help you to make confident, informed decisions about implementing cloud computing solutions in your institution.

Research Data MANTRA is a course designed for PhD students and others who are planning a research project using digital data. The online learning units on the left cover a number of important topics. This course is an Open Educational Resource that may be freely used by anyone. It is available through an open license for rejigging, rebranding, repurposing

Known as "dropbox for scientists", it is a completely free way to transfer large files around the Web. It is a classic problem: you need to send files to someone, or they need to send them to you, and there's no way except email. But they are too large or your administrator won't let you transfer the files by email at all.

FigShare allows to share data, negative results and unpublished figures.

BuzzData lets you share data in a social network fashion. It is possible to publish and discuss your data with others

These resources present a suite of flexible training materials to help people who are responsible for training or teaching researchers and research support staff in how to look after research data. The training materials are relevant to lecturers, tutors, graduate teaching assistants and research support staff in universities, colleges and research organisations.

This year's APA conference, to be held at the BMA in London, addresses the theme "Putting the infrastructure in place for digital preservation" and brings together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.