REMINDER:
Call for Proposals deadline February 21st.
Data:
Collecting, Using, Managing
3rd
Biennial Kathleen A. Zar Symposium
April
25, 2014
The
John Crerar Library
The
University of Chicago
For
more information about the symposium:
Web
Page:
www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/crerar/zar/
Call
for proposals
The
organizers of the 3rd biennial Kathleen A. Zar Symposium,
Data: Collecting, Using,
Managing, to be held Friday, April 25, invite
proposals for presentations that draw on your experience
working with data in a collaborative environment.
Contributed
presentations will provide examples of collaborative efforts
between institutions, groups or individuals, with a focus on
one or more of the following areas: collection, use, access,
preservation and overall management of data. Practical,
real use cases will be highlighted. Proposals selected for
full oral presentations will be eligible for as travel
stipend.
Proposals
should be submitted to Barbara Kern via email at
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Please use “Zar Symposium” in the subject line. Proposals
must include a title, author(s), and abstract (maximum 600
words). Presentations will be 30-45 minutes. The deadline
for submission is February 21st.
Please
consider the following questions when preparing proposals:
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How was the data collaboration initiated, and why?
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What are the opportunities and challenges of the data
collaboration?
*
How are responsibilities determined and distributed?
*
What kinds of tools and techniques may be used to facilitate
the data collaboration? We are especially interested in a
focus on remote partnerships
The
symposium organizers will also consider interactive
alternatives to a traditional oral presentations.
The
intended audience of the symposium includes all who are
involved or interested in data management, with a focus on,
but not limited to, academic institutions.
About
the Symposium:
Data
is captured by computers and instruments on a continual
basis, flooding researchers in images, video, audio, logs,
simulations, and more. This data is crucial to research,
teaching and learning at academic institutions around the
world. Understanding the impact of data on researchers,
libraries and institutions as a whole is critical to
achieving long-term data preservation, appropriate sharing
among communities, and enabling transformative new science.
This symposium will provide participants with an
understanding of how data is used in real world
applications, as well as examples of collaborative efforts
between institutions, groups or individuals specific to
collection, use, access, preservation and overall management
of data.
About
the Kathleen A. Zar Symposium series:
The
Kathleen A. Zar Symposium is a biennial event held at the
John Crerar Library of the University of Chicago.
Session
organizers contact information:
Barbara
Kern, Co-Director Science Library,
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Elisabeth
Long, Associate University Librarian for Digital Services
Nicholas
Labello, Scientific Computing Consultant, Research Computing
Center,
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Deb
Werner, Librarian for Science Instruction and Outreach,
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Jane
Ciacci, Staff & Organization Development Librarian,
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