Tag Archives: data curation

Fáilte gu Ghlaschu!

  The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.  ~Sydney J. Harris Football and digital preservation seem an unlikely combination but on May 15th Ed and I arrived to a slightly damp Glasgow celebrating en masse the end of the football season, to deliver our DPTP north of the border.  There, I [...]

A repository for pi(es)

As you may have read recently, Fabrice Bellard has announced the computation of π to almost 2.7 trillion decimal places using a faster algorithm that allows desktop technology to be used, rather than the supercomputers that are usually used to break this particular record. Bellard is an extremely talented programmer who has made a useful [...]

4th International Digital Curation Conference part 3 (idcc4 rides again)

This is the third and final post of mine summing up my notes from the 4th international digital curation conference (now a few weeks ago.) These notes cover the bulk of the second day, which consisted of submitted (as opposed to invited) papers. Most of these were given in parallel tracks, so I’m only able [...]

4th International Digital Curation Conference part 2 (return of idcc4)

My last post from IDCC4 ended with me being unable to report on John Wilbank’s closing keynote on day 1, so I’ll rectify that now with the benefit of handwritten notes and a little more time for reflection. John is working on the Science Commons initiative which, through projects and advocacy, is taking the Creative [...]

The 4th International Digital Curation Conference: idcc4

This is a brief and undigested report from day 1 of the DCC’s international digital curation conference taking place in Edinburgh. After a welcome from Chris Rusbridge (DCC director) and Professor Peter Clarke (NeSC director) we had a keynote from Professor David Porteous, a professor of human molecular genetics and medicine and a key player [...]