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Using Scientific Workflow Tools

Mon, October 22, 2012

Using Scientific Workflow Tools - Taverna and Kepler

Scientific workflows are widely recognized as a useful paradigm to describe, manage, and share complex scientific analyses and are often used by in silico experimentation. This session will be an overview of two scientific workflow tools: Taverna and Kepler. A demonstration will show the basics of how the tools work and how they can make documenting your research process easier.

Speaker: Susan Borda

Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 10:00-11:00

Location: KL 260

Metadata →Data about Your Data: Why it's Important to Describe Your Research Well and How to Create It

Fri, September 21, 2012

EML example

This is an example of EML the Ecological Metadata Language in XML

Some questions you may have about Metadata:

What the heck is metadata anyway and why is it important to my research?
What should be documented?
Metadata is a pain, what are some tools I can use?
Is there a standard I should be using?

In this presentation you will learn how documenting your research process and describing your data will benefit your research and facilitate further discovery and reuse.

Speaker: Susan Borda

Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 10:00-11:00

Location: KL 260

Contact: sborda@ucmerced.edu

Teaching With Data

Fri, August 10, 2012

Map depicting location and depth of global earthquakes

Map depicting location and depth of global earthquakes, map generated by the USGS EHP

Teaching with Data

Working with data sets and performing data analysis have become increasingly important not only in research across disciplines, but also in the workforce.

Come to this workshop for answers to the following questions:

Where might you begin to include the use of data in the classroom or to support student learning and research?
What are good analysis and visualization resources for different disciplines?
What are good sources of data for different disciplines?
What data management best practices can you instill in learners?

Be prepared to engage in conversation about how you would like to incorporate data in your teaching, and what support and resources you may need.

We will be covering resources for Social Sciences, Humanities and Natural Sciences.

This session is being offered to Graduate Student TAs but others are welcome to attend.

Susan Borda, sborda@ucmerced.edu

Thursday, August 16^th

1:30 to 2:20

2:30 to 3:20

Location KL 260

Preservation of Digital Video

Mon, April 16, 2012

Webinar: Efforts Towards Preservation of Digital Video

Date/Time: Friday, April 20, 2012 / 10:00am - 11:00am

Location: Gonella Discovery Room, KL 260

Individuals and institutions are creating digital video content at an unprecedented rate. In addition, video in older formats are being converted to digital files. How will all of this content be preserved? Is there a preservation format and access format standard for delivery of digital video? Are some formats more appropriate for preservation and access than others? Are there established digital video preservation methods? This webinar will discuss the basics of video digitization. We will also talk about the challenges of handling born-digital video and how cultural heritage institutions can mitigate some of these challenges. This is a webinar designed for people will little or no experience working with digitized and born-digital video in a preservation context. There will be plenty of time for questions as well.

The webinar will feature Jimi Jones, Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois.

Please join us for this informative webinar. Cookies will be served.

Diaries digitized by UC Merced tell first-hand of Civil War, Lincoln assassination

Fri, February 10, 2012

A new digital collection provides a glimpse into the everyday life of a Union soldier during the U.S. Civil War, as well a first-hand account of President Lincoln’s assassination and its aftermath. The UC Merced Library contributed the collection to the Online Archive of California (OAC), Calisphere, and Merritt, in what appears to be the final chapter in a search for Lincoln’s last written words.