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May 29th, 2012
8th International Digital Curation Conference 2013 (IDCC13)
14-16 January 2013
Mövenpick Hotel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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IDCC brings together those who create and manage data and information, those who use it and those who research and teach about curation processes. Our view of ‘data’ is a broad one – video games and virtual worlds are of just as much interest as data from laboratory instruments or field observation. Whether the information originates in the arts, humanities, social or experimental sciences the issues faced are cross-disciplinary. Digital curators maintain, preserve, and add value to digital information throughout its life, reducing threats to its long-term value, mitigating the risk of digital obsolescence, and enhancing the potential for reuse for all purposes. If you are a curator, if you teach or train future curators, or if you depend on them for your work, IDCC is for you. www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc13
Call for Papers
The IDCC11 Programme Committee invites submissions to the 8th International Digital Curation Conference that reflect our conference theme. Our theme recognizes that in recent years there has been an explosion in the amount of data available, whether from tweets to blogs, data from sensors through to “citizen science,” government data, health and genome data and social survey data. Technology allows us to treat as ‘data’ content which would not once have merited the term – recordings of speech or song, video of dance or theatre or animal behavior – and to treat as quantitative what once could only be qualitative. There are challenges in finding data and making it findable, in the ability to use it effectively, to take and understand data, to process, to analyze and extract value from data, to visualize data and then to communicate the stories behind it.
This process is now being termed data science. It is being used across sectors to describe a wide range of data activities in the commercial, government and academic sectors dealing with information whose primary purpose is often not research-related. Activities are not discipline-specific; in fact data science is being described in some quarters as a new discipline.
The Call for Papers including a list of topics can be found at: www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc13/call-papers
Submissions will be accepted from 4 June 2012
Sent on behalf of IDCC13 Programme Committee Co-chaired by Kevin Ashley – Director of the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), Liz Lyon – Associate Director of the DCC and Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Filed under: D2C2May 29th, 2012
Digital Curation Centre is pleased to announce our refreshed and replenished catalog of tools and services for managing and curating research data. The catalog is at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/external/tools-services
This is more than a new look; the catalog has been overhauled to focus on software and services that directly perform curation and management tasks. It splits these resources into five major categories, based on who the intended users are and what stage of the data lifecycle they will be most useful in. Sub-categories contain tables for quick comparison of tools against others that perform similar functions, linked to in-depth descriptions of how the resource can help. This resource will evolve; if you have suggestions of tools to add please send them to info@dcc.ac.uk
Filed under: D2C2May 29th, 2012
This new release marks a major progression in the software’s functionality. For the first time users can create data management plans incorporating multiple templates, so if your institution, your funder and your publisher all require data management plans, you can now create a single plan to satisfy them all.
There are also more granular export options, so you can choose to output only the sections you want to include in any given report, targeting it towards the intended readership. If you want to focus attention on just one facet of your data management plan, it’s easy: just select and deselect as required.
Other new features in v3.0 include:
– Ability to share plans, and to edit them jointly with colleagues
– Simultaneous viewing of multiple custom guidance notes
– More flexible project stages (phases) for templates
– User maintainable profile/login details
– XLSX output
Over the coming months we will be rolling out a number of additional features, and further announcements will flag their release:
– A facility for boilerplate text to be included within templates
– Display of funder constraints on output (e.g. number of pages, word count etc)
– Increased institutional customisability, including a new ‘administrator’ user type
– Support for non-English Language versions of the tool
Also, as a result of ongoing consultation with our users, we’ll be developing an API together with more new features to enable improved interoperation between DMP Online and other related systems and tools, and enhanced reporting capabilities for both system users and administrators including running word and page count to help users adhere to funders’ constraints, and a facility to publish plans without the need to log in.
If you would like to see any of these prioritized, we can move it up the list – just drop us a line and let us know, or request a new feature at https://github.com/DigitalCurationCentre/DMPOnline/issue
Visit http://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk and get started now, or check out the Open Source code on GitHub. And as ever, if you have suggestions about how we might continue to extend and improve DMP Online, we want to hear from you. Email dmponline@dcc.ac.uk and let us know what you think.
Filed under: D2C2May 16th, 2012
The long awaited decision in the Georgia State e-reserves case was handed down on May 11. Georgia State was sued in 2008 by three publishers, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Sage Publications, for materials in the library e-reserves system. The trial was held a year ago. In many ways it was a win for Georgia State but there are still some unanswered questions.
Georgia State won on all but five of the 99 infringement claims. The Court only looked at books and not journal articles. Before the judge even applied a fair use analysis to each work, she reviewed whether or not the publisher had a valid copyright claim to the work. There were several cases where the publisher could not definitively prove ownership so Georgia State won on those claims without fair use ever being applied.
The following are some of the highlights of the 350 page decision:
This case was argued in the 11th Circuit.
Copyright in the News is written by University Copyright Office Director, Donna Ferullo. www.lib.purdue.edu/uco
Filed under: general, UCOMay 11th, 2012
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Filed under: generalMay 7th, 2012
Congratulations to all Libraries faculty promoted in 2012!
Promoted to Professor of Library Science
Michael Fosmire
Promoted to Associate Professor of Library Science
Christopher C. Miller
Catherine Fraser Riehle
Maribeth Slebodnick
May 4th, 2012
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics.
This Week’s Featured Database: FAOSTAT, from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below the Libraries’ search box.
Description/focus: FAOSTAT provides world data on food and agriculture production, prices, and trade.
Start with this hint: The FAOSTAT home page is a portal to datasets and databases that let you view canned charts or build customized spreadsheets and reports. For example, if you select the major topic Resources, you are offered further options for Population or Investment, which includes Capital Stock and Machinery. Other topics are Food Security, Prices, and others. Click here to see the basics of searching FAOSTAT.
Why you should know this database: FAOSTAT supplies data on over 200 countries. Data can be downloaded in CSV format. The FAO Statistical Yearbook can be downloaded in sections as PDFs.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: FAOSTAT databases let students compare the agriculture, food, and livestock production of a country to other countries as well as see changes in a country’s production across time.
Cost: Paid by the Libraries annually. For more information contact mdugan@purdue.edu.
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Filed under: collections, database, HSSEB, MGMTMay 2nd, 2012
The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on whether or not it is legal to purchase copyrighted materials manufactured outside the United States and resell them in the U.S. without the permission of the copyright owner. The case is Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons and involves a Thai National who attended school in the U.S. Kirtsaeng thought to help pay for his education by having his family purchase overseas editions of textbooks and send them to him in the U.S. where he then sold them to fellow students for a profit. Wiley, the publisher of the textbooks, sued Kirtsaeng in federal court in New York for copyright infringement. Kirtsaeng claimed that his activities were covered by the first sale doctrine of the U.S. Copyright Act. However, the jury disagreed and found him guilty of copyright infringement on eight books and awarded Wiley $75,000 for each book for a total of $600,000. Kirtsaeng appealed but the Second Circuit agreed with the lower court that the first sale doctrine does not apply to goods made in a foreign country.
The Circuit Courts have now split three ways on this issue. As indicated above, the Second Circuit has ruled that copyrighted works manufactured outside the U.S. can never be resold in the U.S. without the copyright owner’s permission. The Ninth Circuit takes a slightly different approach. They ruled that a foreign work can be resold in the U.S. without permission but only after the copyright owner has approved a prior sale inside the U.S. The Third Circuit has ruled that foreign works can be resold in the U.S. without permission provided that the copyright owner authorized the first sale of the work wherever the work was manufactured. The U.S. Supreme Court did review this issue with the Ninth Circuit case of Costco v. Omega but the Court split with a 4-4 tie. Justice Elena Kagan had to recuse herself since she was involved in the case prior to becoming a Supreme Court justice. When the U.S. Supreme Court splits on a decision, then the Circuit Court decision stands.
This case has the potential to greatly impact how libraries do business. Many of the books libraries purchase are manufactured outside of the United States. Libraries rely upon the first sale doctrine of the U.S. Copyright Act to loan those books. First sale allows the copyright owner to determine when their work will be made available to the public but once that occurs then the copyright owner does not have any control over the resale or the loan of their work. This is how libraries and used book stores can stay in business.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the fall with a ruling to follow in June 2013.
Copyright in the News is written by University Copyright Office Director, Donna Ferullo. www.lib.purdue.edu/uco
Filed under: general, UCO