Finding the Needle in the Haystack: Discovering Research Data Online

On Tuesday February 26 (that's tomorrow, folks!) from 3-5:30PM EST/12-2:30PST, the Board on Research Data and Information will be hosting a symposium called "Finding the Needle in the Haystack: Discovering Research Data Online." As research becomes more data intensive and the amount of data produced continues to grow, knowing how to find relevant data is increasing in importance. Acknowledging the variety of solutions in use for storing and locating data, the symposium will also be looking at the issues of "pervasive infrastructure, standardization of approaches, and the usual questions of who does what, where, and how?" Speakers will include Clifford Lynch from CNI and Francine Berman from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

The 2.5 hour discussion will be audiocast live; the address will be posted at http://sites.nationalacademies.org/ about an hour before the event.

Praxis Talk: Demystifying the Digital Humanities

Paige Morgan and Sarah Kremen-Hicks will be talking about their initiative "Demystifying the Digital Humanities" at the next Praxis conversation on Feb. 12th at 12:30 in the Research Commons. The talk will focus on the concept of agency in the digital humanities, and will discuss teaching and modeling agency in an academic context. 

The talk is part of a series of lectures called "Praxis: Doing Scholarship Digitally," designed to create opportunities for researchers from a variety of disciplines to discuss digital tools in their work. The series is co-sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the University Libraries. http://www.lib.washington.edu/about/news/exhibits/praxis2.

Data-related sessions at ALA-Midwinter

ALA-Midwinter is coming up in Seattle, January 25-29, 2013, and there are several session related to data curation, management, literacy, and other related issues. This list no doubt leaves something out, post any additions to the comments.

FRIDAY

OCLC Americas Member Meeting and Symposium

Friday, January 25

11:00 am – 2:00 pm | Red Lion Hotel Fifth Avenue, Emerald Ballroom

http://alamw13.ala.org/node/8754

SATURDAY

GIS Discussion Group & Map Collection Management Discussion Group

W Seattle Hotel, Great Room 2BC

Saturday, January 26 8am - 11:30a

http://alamw13.ala.org/node/8726

ACRL ULS Campus Administration & Leadership Discussion Group

Topic: Planning & Partnerships for Research Data Services

Saturday, January 26, 2013, 3:00p-4:00p
Westin Seattle (Denny/Mercer)

http://alamw13.ala.org/node/9325

OCLC Linked Data Roundtable

Saturday January 26, 10:30a-12:00p

Convention Ctr Room 213

http://alamw13.ala.org/node/8758

Digital Literacy Forum: Setting the Agenda

Saturday January 26, 3:00p-4:00p
Washington State Convention Center, TCC304

http://alamw13.ala.org/node/9153

SUNDAY
Top Technology Trends

Topic: "If Data I Created Resides in a Cloud Environment, Is It Still Mine?"
Sunday, January 27, 2013, 10:30a to 11:30a
Washington State Convention Center, Room 606-607
http://alamw13.ala.org/node/8928

Linked Library Data

Sunday, Jan 27, 10:30-11:30

Washington State Convention Center, Room 205

http://alamw13.ala.org/node/8813

ACRL WGSS Section is sponsoring a digital humanities discussion group.

Sunday, January 27, 2013 - 10:30a to 11:30a
Westin Seattle Hotel Cascade

http://alamw13.ala.org/node/8914.

ACRL Digital Curation Interest Group

Sunday, Jan. 27, 1-2:30 PM
Westin Seattle Hotel, Denny/Mercer

http://alamw13.ala.org/node/9329

Digital Literacy Task Force Meeting

Sunday, Jan. 27, 1-2:30 PM
Washington State Convention Center, Room 307-308

http://alamw13.ala.org/node/9109

Library Technology Challenges: Woes and Wows

Sunday, Jan. 27, 1-2:30 PM
Washington State Convention Center, TCC301

http://alamw13.ala.org/node/8942

ACRL Digital Humanities Discussion Group

Sunday, Jan 27, 4:30-5:30p

Westin Seattle Hotel, Fifth Ave Room

http://alamw13.ala.org/node/8710

CNI data-related videos from Spring Meeting

CNI has posted some videos from its Spring membership meeting and I thought several would be of interest to data-minded folks:

Linked Data for Libraries: Why Should We Care? Where Should We Start (J. Bowen & P. Schreur)

Reinventing the Research University to Serve a Changing World (J. Duderstadt)

Archiving Large Swaths of Digital Content: Lessons from Archiving the Occupy Movement (Besser, et al)

National Status of Data Management: Current Research in Policy and Education (Halbert, et al)

Building the Grateful Dead Archive Online: The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion (V. Steel & R. Chandler)