3rd Annual User Conference – 24 May 2011
28 March 2011
Symplectic 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 |
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| 11:00-11:30 | RePosit: Promoting the CRIS+Repository Deposit Model Rachel Proudfoot, University of Leeds & Sarah Molloy, Queen Mary University of London |
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| 11:30-11:40 | Break | |
| 11:40-12:00 | Research Data Management: The Elephant at the Door? Jonathan Breeze, Imperial College London |
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| 12:00-12:20 | Open Bibliographic Data is Essential for Quality REF Assessment in Science Professor Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge |
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| 12:20-12:50 | The Open Microscopy Environment: Image Informatics for the Biological Sciences Professor Jason Swedlow, University of Dundee and Glencoe Software |
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| 12:50-14:00 | Lunch and Networking | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Parallel Sessions 1 & 2 |
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| 15:00-15:30 | Tea Break |
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| 15:30-16:30 | Parallel Sessions 1 & 2 |
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| 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.
