*We have had several requests for an extension to the submission deadline, so, we have decided to extend it until 12 noon on Friday 11th October!*
Dealing with Data 2019 will take place on the 27th of November in the Informatics Forum. This year our theme is “Collaboration Across the Nations: Managing, sharing and securing research data across space and time” and we are now inviting contributions from research staff and students at the University of Edinburgh.
In previous years DwD has attracted over 100 attendees from across the university to hear contributions by research staff and students at all stages of their careers and from diverse disciplines. You can view the presentations from 2017 & 2018 now on MediaHopper (https://media.ed.ac.uk/channel/Dealing+With+Data+2017+Conference/82256222)
The full Call for Contributions is below. If you have any questions please get in touch using on dealing-with-data-conference@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk
Dealing with Data Conference 2019 – Call for Contributions
Date: Wednesday 27th November 2019
Location: Informatics Forum, George Square, Central Area
Theme: Collaboration Across the Nations: Managing, sharing and securing research data across space and time
Possible Contributions: Presentation; Lightning talk; Poster; Demonstration of a tool or method supporting collaboration; Stall or exhibit, panel.
Call for contributions:
Collaboration is vitally important to academic and commercial research in all areas as it enables the pooling of resources to answer increasingly complex, or interdisciplinary research questions.
The effective collection, processing, and sharing of research data is integral to successful collaborations, but it can also present many challenges. In particular the practicalities of co-ordinating data management across large multi-centre collaborations, sharing large data, or handling sensitive data, can present difficulties if not planned for appropriately.
Dealing with Data 2019 is your opportunity to share with the UoE research community how you have addressed these issues to build successful collaborations, or the lessons you have learned which will enable you to be more successful in the future.
Contributions should be aimed principally at an academic audience, but the programme will seek to represent a wide range of scholarly disciplines.
Possible themes may include (but are by no means limited to):
- Data sharing within research groups or labs;
- Challenges of data sharing across the University or with external partners;
- Managing and securing sensitive data across distributed research projects;
- Interdisciplinary issues;
- Tools for enabling or simplifying collaborative data collection, management or analysis;
- Data sharing at scale;
- Interoperability of (meta)data;
- Legal and licensing issues;
- Credit and contributions for data use and reuse, including after a project has ended.
For all contributions please send an abstract detailing the content and proposed format (maximum 500 words) to dealing-with-data-conference@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk by Friday 11th october. Posters should be A0 in size, portrait orientation.
Proposals will be reviewed, and the event programme announced by Friday 25th October 2019.
Dealing with Data is an annual event sponsored and organised by the Research Data Service to provide a forum for University of Edinburgh researchers to discuss how they are benefiting from, or experiencing struggles with, the fast-changing research data environment.
Kerry Miller
Research Data Support Officer