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3rd Annual User Conference – 24 May 2011

28 March 2011

Conference badges on a tableSymplectic is pleased to announce its 3rd annual user conference, to take place on Tuesday 24th May at Hamilton House (NUT) on Mabledon Place, London.

This year's programme has a repositories theme and will include speakers talking about current and future technologies for information sharing and speakers from current JISC-funded deposit projects. In the afternoon, there will be two interactive discussion sessions – each one focusing on a different area of Symplectic's products.

Programme

10:00-10:30   Arrival & Registration
10:30-10:40   Welcome
10:40-11:00   The BRUCE Project: Brunel Research Under a CERIF Environment
Lorna Mitchell, Brunel University
11:00-11:30   RePosit: Promoting the CRIS+Repository Deposit Model
Rachel Proudfoot, University of Leeds & Sarah Molloy, Queen Mary University of London
11:30-11:40   Break
11:40-12:00   Research Data Management: The Elephant at the Door?
Jonathan Breeze, Imperial College London
12:00-12:20   Open Bibliographic Data is Essential for Quality REF Assessment in Science
Professor Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge
12:20-12:50   The Open Microscopy Environment: Image Informatics for the Biological Sciences
Professor Jason Swedlow, University of Dundee and Glencoe Software
12:50-14:00   Lunch and Networking
14:00-15:00   Parallel Sessions 1 & 2
15:00-15:30   Tea Break
15:30-16:30   Parallel Sessions 1 & 2
16:30-16:45   Closing

Parallel Sessions

Each of the parallel sessions will run twice - so everyone will be able to attend both sessions.

Session 1: REF Functionality Feedback Session

Session 2: Making Data Publicly Available Feedback Session

After the Conference

Post-conference drinks will be held in a local pub for anyone wishing to have further discussions – all are invited. Venue: Somers Town Coffeehouse, 60 Chalton Street NW1 1HS.

Registration

Conference registration has now closed. Any questions, please email conference@symplectic.co.uk.

Presentations

The presentations from the morning talks are now available here.