[Sigifp-l] Fwd: Asis-l Digest, Vol 122, Issue 5

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Today's Topics:

   1. Rutgers iSchool PhD Program Applicants: Virtual Info      Session
      (Chirag Shah)
   2. ?Understanding and comparing digital curation costs to
      support smarter investments? (Joy Davidson)

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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 12:25:25 -0500
From: Chirag Shah <chirags at rutgers.edu>
To: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum <JESSE at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU>,
        asis-l at asis.org, students-l at asis.org
Subject: [Asis-l] Rutgers iSchool PhD Program Applicants: Virtual Info
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The Rutgers University School of Communication & Information at invites
creative and forward-thinking individuals to apply for our
interdisciplinary PhD Program, in the concentration area of Library and
Information Science.

Located in New Brunswick, NJ, close to NYC and Philadelphia, Rutgers
University?s iSchool provides an excellent environment for research in such
areas as Human Information Behavior; Information Retrieval, Language and
Communication; Information Agencies and Artifacts; Learning, Youth,
Information and Technology; and Social,  Community, and Health Informatics.
The school includes world-renowned faculty who lead and teach in these
areas. Their accomplishments are reflected in a large pool of scholarly
publications, awards and grants.

Application deadline for fall 2015 enrollment: Jan. 15, 2015

Get to know the Rutgers iSchool at this link:
http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/lis-concentration.html <
http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/lis-concentration.html>

More information on Ph.D. program admissions can be found here:
http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/admission-aid.html <
http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/admission-aid.html>

And, join us virtual information session on Friday, November 14, at 3:30
pm, using the information as follows:

1. Please join my meeting, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:20 PM EDT.
https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/437495141 <
https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/437495141>

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Best,
Chirag Shah, PhD
Assistant Professor of Information and Computer Science
Rutgers University
4 Huntington St, New Brunswick NJ 08901
p. (848) 932-8807     f. (732) 932-6916
http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~chirags <http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~chirags>

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Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 14:56:45 +0000
From: Joy Davidson <Joy.Davidson at glasgow.ac.uk>
To: "asis-l at asis.org" <asis-l at asis.org>
Subject: [Asis-l] ?Understanding and comparing digital curation costs
        to support smarter investments?
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This may be relevant for any list members interested in costing digital
curation activity.

The 4C project submitted D3.3, its ?Curation Costs Exchange Framework?
deliverable to the European Commission this week.

?To date there have been very few opportunities and, due to trust issues,
little willingness for digital curation practitioners to exchange
information relating to the cost of curation. The Curation Costs Exchange
(CCEx)<http://www.curationexchange.org> platform allows users to upload
their curation costs and compare them with those of others in a secure,
controlled fashion,? explains Alex Thirifays of the Danish National
Archives who collated the report.

The report, along with the CCEx and the Cost Comparison Tool<
http://www.curationexchange.org/compare-costs> make up the deliverable
(D3.3?Curation Costs Exchange Framework) and address some of these issues
of trust and unwillingness, and explains how organisations can use the CCEx
to understand and compare digital curation costs to support smarter
investments.

"Transparency of digital curation costs will help organisations identify
greater efficiencies and pinpoint potential optimisations,? Alex continues.
?Insight into how and why peers target their investments can lead to better
use of resources, help identify weaknesses and drivers in current
practices, and inspire innovations. Last but not least, a community such as
that facilitated by the CCEx enables members to collaborate more,
communicate more, exchange information and experiences and start addressing
the taboo subject of sharing financial information."

With volumes of data increasing, and budgets to manage these data unable to
keep pace, investments in digital curation must be strategic and targeted
to ensure the best value for money. The CCEx is designed to be used by
anyone involved in digital curation - practitioners, researchers, users and
re-users, managers and financial controllers, member organisations, policy
makers and solutions providers, to help achieve this best value.

The report outlines two key challenges which remain for the CCEx: to gather
cost data, and to translate these into figures that organisations of all
kinds find meaningful and engaging. The meaningfulness of these figures
does not just depend on how results are presented, but on how many cost
data sets the CCEx is able to attract in order to generate statistically
reliable and useable figures. The meaningfulness of the results is the
compelling argument for the submission of new cost data sets.

In short, the CCEx needs community support, it needs digital curators,
creators, vendors and funders to use it, add to it, take care of it ? and
above all share their data with it to make it work.
The full version of the CCEx will be launched at the 4C/DPC ?Investing in
Opportunity: Policy Practice and Planning for a Sustainable Digital Future?<
http://www.dpconline.org/events/details/78-enduring-data-enduring-value-policy-practice-and-planning-for-a-sustainable-digital-future?xref=91>
conference on 17 ? 18th November at the Wellcome Trust in London, UK and
participants will have an opportunity to comment and interact with the tool.

The beta version of the CCEx is now available at:
http://www.curationexchange.org

Sarah Middleton
Head of Communications and Advocacy
Digital Preservation Coalition
Innovation Centre, York University Science Park
Heslington, YORK YO10 5DG

http://www.dpconline.org/
Email: sarah at dpconline.org<mailto:sarah at dpconline.org>
Phone: +44 (0) 1904 567654
Twitter: @Sarah_DPC

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Who will win the Digital Preservation Awards 2014?
Find out on 17th November #dpa2014
http://www.dpconline.org/advocacy/awards/digital-preservation-awards-2014

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