IDCC 11: What Did You Say?
Audience comments and links from the 7th International Digital Curation Conference, which was held at the Mariott Royal Hotel, Bristol, UK on 5th-7th December 2011.
Opening Keynote
Ewan McIntosh got the audience talking with his inspiring presentation about public data opportunities, in which he challenged the audience to learn from seven year olds to create wonder with stories about their data....
McIntosh "create a sense of wonder". Nice example using "Debtris" visualization for international debt youtu.be/K7Pahd2X-eE #idcc11- A full summary of Ewan's presentation can be found in this DCC blog post:
Public data opportunities | Digital Curation Centre
"Data is a wonderful place to find stories" Ewan McIntosh opened his presentation with a series of questions about measures of success wi...Organisational Perspectives
- David Lynn from the Wellcome Trust provided us with the funders' perspective on the issue of open data and outlined some of the efforts of the Wellcome Trust to encourage greater data sharing...
- Jeff Haywood from the University of Edinburgh provided an institutional perspective by describing how they are looking after the university's data...
- Jeff's talk also led to the "most mixed metaphor" tweet of the event (as nominated by @andypowe11)
- Andrew Charlesworth, Director of the Centre for IT and Law (CITL) at the University of Bristol gave a legal perspective on the issue of open data, arguing for better education for researchers about the issues and a resistance to over legalisation...
