Reflections on the 11th Digital Curation Conference

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Martin Hadley

Last week Martin Hadley attended the 11th International Digital Curation Conference in Amsterdam which this year focused on “visible data, invisible infrastructure” to present on the ACIT team’s work on supporting researchers in creating interactive visualisations through the Live Data Project. In our paper … Continue reading →

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Exploring Online Language Resources

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Martin Wynne

A course in the IT Learning Programme at the University of Oxford in Hilary Term 2016 will explore how we can use online language datasets to explore language, history and culture. This course is the latest stage in the evolution … Continue reading →

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Live Data Network Retrospective: 16th November

Posted on November 18, 2015 by Martin Hadley

The first Live Data Network event was hosted by the OeRC on Monday 16th November with presentations from nine researchers from across the University and introduced by Professor of Visualisation, Min Chen. An enthusiastic audience of 27 brought the room over capacity, … Continue reading →

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First Live Data Network Event on 16th November

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Martin Hadley

In just less than a fortnight we’re hosting the first termly meeting for researchers interested in interactively visualising their data to meet and discuss ideas; everyone (undergraduate, postgraduate, research fellow and academic staff) is invited to attend. Date: Monday 16th … Continue reading →

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A Force to be reckoned with

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Meriel Patrick

On Monday and Tuesday of this week (12th-13th January) I attended the Force2015 conference on research communications and e-scholarship. The conference was the successor to two US-based events entitled ‘Beyond the PDF’ – but happily for me, Force2015 was handily … Continue reading →

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Data Visualisation Talks

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Rowan Wilson

This information is now available here.

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Four presentations to Medical Division departments due to a short little message

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Kenneth Kahn

In November we asked Alison Brindle to include the following in her division newsletter: Ken Kahn and Howard Noble, who work for the Research Support team of Academic IT, a group within IT services, would like to offer their services to … Continue reading →

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Highlights from the Digital Research Conference

Posted on September 11, 2013 by Howard Noble

Ken Kahn’s report on a selection of the presentations at the Digital Research Conference: Citizen Science and Crowd-sourcing Biological Data — Developed a phone app that greatly improved previous citizen science projects that relied upon email with photo attachments. Most examples … Continue reading →

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