Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) and FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure will present the 4th eSciDoc Days on October 26 and 27, 2011 in Berlin. eSciDoc is an open source e-research environment that has been developed by the MPDL and FIZ Karlsruhe. It seeks to provide applications and services based on a shared infrastructure for managing research and publication data together with the related metadata, relations and access rights.
For the fourth time, the two organisations will hold eSciDoc days, a two-day conference that will provide extensive information about collaborative e-research environments and related challenges. Topics to be addressed include the sustainable management of a growing amount of data throughout the research process, and the provision of a publishing environment for research results together with research data. Scientists in research organisations and academic institutions, information experts and software developers will discuss the latest developments in building digital information infrastructures.
Keynote speaker at this year's eSciDoc Days is Simon Hodson, Programme Manager at JISC (UK) for Managing Research Data. Addressing challenges, opportunities and benefits, he will share his expertise in promoting and supporting good data management and data sharing in higher education and research.
The first day will give a general overview of eSciDoc and its growing community as well as the basic services and customised applications. On the second day there will be a track with three focal topic sessions: 'Infrastructure Projects', 'Research Data Management' and 'eSciDoc - Getting Started'. These sessions will provide progress reports with up-to-date information and talks with practical relevance giving a introduction to eSciDoc and various applications.
Two additional 'hands-on' tracks with comprehensive tutorials will give participants with technical background the opportunity to familiarise themselves with installing the eSciDoc infrastructure and developing their own individual eSciDoc applications. There will also be room to discuss future developments and project ideas with experts from the MPDL and FIZ Karlsruhe.
The programme for the eSiDoc Days 2011 is available at https://www.escidoc.org
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