Category Archives: Cyberinfrastructure/E-Science

Draft Roadmap for Science Data Infrastructure

PARSE.Insight has released Draft Roadmap for Science Data Infrastructure.
Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

The draft roadmap provides an overview and initial details of a number of specific components, both technical and non-technical, which would be needed to supplement existing and already planned infrastructures for scientific data. The infra-structure components are aimed at bridging the gaps [...] Continue reading

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Working Together or Apart: Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship

The Council on Library and Information Resources has released Working Together or Apart: Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship: Report of a Workshop Cosponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources and The National Endowment for the Humanities
Here's an excerpt from the Executive Summary:

On September 15, 2008, CLIR, in cooperation with the National [...] Continue reading

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Digital Video: Open Science: Good For Research, Good For Researchers? at Columbia

A digital video of the panel presentation: "Open Science: Good for Research, Good for Researchers?" at Columbia University is now available.
Here's the description from the Web page:

Open science refers to information-sharing among researchers and encompasses a number of initiatives to remove access barriers to data and published papers, and to use digital technology to more [...] Continue reading

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Digital Video: Open Science: Good For Research, Good For Researchers? at Columbia

A digital video of the panel presentation: "Open Science: Good for Research, Good for Researchers?" at Columbia University is now available.
Here's the description from the Web page:

Open science refers to information-sharing among researchers and encompasses a number of initiatives to remove access barriers to data and published papers, and to use digital technology to more [...] Continue reading

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Sun Microsystems Releases Open APIs for the Sun Open Cloud Platform

Sun Microsystems has released Open API's for its Open Cloud Platform.
Here's an excerpt from the press release:

Today at its CommunityOne developer event, Sun Microsystems, Inc. . . . showcased the Sun Open Cloud Platform, the company's open cloud computing infrastructure, powered by industry-leading software technologies from Sun, including Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris and Open Storage. Signaling [...] Continue reading

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Herbert Van de Sompel et al. on “Adding eScience Assets to the Data Web”

Herbert Van de Sompel et al.'s paper on "Adding eScience Assets to the Data Web" is now available on the Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2009) Web site.
Here's an excerpt:

Aggregations of Web resources are increasingly important in scholarship as it adopts new methods that are data-centric, collaborative, and networked-based. The same notion of aggregations of [...] Continue reading

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Presentations from the 9th International Bielefeld Conference

Presentations from the 9th International Bielefeld Conference are now available.
Here's a few quick selections:

Communicating the Results of Research: How Much Does It Cost, and Who Pays?, Michael Jubb (slides) (audio)
IR Also Means Institutional Responsibility, Leo Waaijers (slides) (audio)
University Investment in the Library: What's the Return?, Carol Tenopir (slides) (audio)

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Cloud Computing: DuraSpace Report to Mellon Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has released a progress report from the DuraSpace project, a joint project of the DSpace Foundation and the Fedora Commons. (Thanks to RepositoryMan.)
Here's an excerpt from "DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons Receive Grant from the Mellon Foundation for DuraSpace" that describes the project:

Over the next six months funding from the [...] Continue reading

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“What Cloud Computing Really Means”

Eric Knorr and Galen Gruman provide a concise overview of "cloud computing" in "What Cloud Computing Really Means."
Here's an excerpt:

Cloud computing comes into focus only when you think about what IT always needs: a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new [...] Continue reading

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Leslie Carr on Repositories and Cloud Computing

In "The Cloud, the Researcher and the Repository," Leslie Carr discusses repositories and cloud computing, especially the problem of large file deposit.
Here's an excerpt from:

The solution that Tim [Brody] has come up with is to allow the researcher's desktop environment to directly use EPrints as a file system—you can 'mount' the repository as a network [...] Continue reading

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