Interview Request - How do you establish trust and authority in today’s scholarly digital environment?
You are invited to participate in an interview to look at how scholars assign trust and authority to the information sources they choose, use, and cite. The project is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan foundation and the interview will be conducted by an individual of a research team from the University of Tennessee. By participating in an interview you will help inform and influence publishers, librarians, and policy makers on how researchers work within our current and changing digital times.
Interviews will last no more than an hour. Please let us know as soon as possible if you are interested in participating. If you are interested in participating, please fill out this quick survey or e-mail rvolenti@utk.edu, Rachel Volentine Research Coordinator/Project ManagerCenter for Information and Communication Studies(865) 974-7931rvolenti@utk.edu
ECSITE’13: EarthCube Summer Institute for Technology Exploration 2013
ECSITE’13 will be held August 12th - 16th, 2013, at theSan Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego. Funded by the National Science Foundation’s Geoinformatics program and the EarthCube program, ECSITE’13 builds upon eight years of the Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists, from 2004-2011 (see Previous Summer Institutes).
Apply Now! Due date: July 2nd, 2013
DataONE Users Group (DUG) Meeting
July 7th – 8th, Chapel Hill, NC
Courtyard Marriott Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
We will have presentations by Member Nodes part of the DataONE network, an update on the status of DataONE, demonstration and discussion of current and future tools and multiple roundtable discussion on topics of interest, as identified by the community. A poster reception on the first night will provide participants the opportunity to present a poster on any activity at their home institution that relates to DataONE; use of education materials, implementation of the MN software stack, product from a working group activity etc.
Full information and a draft agenda is provided here: http://www.dataone.org/dataone-users-group.
You may register here:
http://www.dataone.org/dataone-user-group-meeting-registration-2013. There is no cost to registration.
