It's Public Knowledge: The National Digital Archive of Datasets

This article describes the history and development of the National Digital Archive of Datasets, a service run by the University of London Computer Centre for the National Archives of England. It discusses the project in light of the context in which it emerged in the 1990s, its departure in approach from traditional data archives, and the range of archival functions. Finally, it offers reflections on the project as whole. Cet article décrit l’histoire et le développement du National Digital Archive of Datasets, un service offert par le centre informatique de l’Université de Londres pour les Archives nationales de l’Angleterre. L’auteure présente le contexte dans lequel le projet a émergé dans les années 1990, son approche qui diffère de celle des archives de données informatiques traditionnelles, ainsi que la gamme de ses fonctions archivistiques. Finalement, elle offre des réflexions sur le projet dans son ensemble

Beyond simple textual plagiarism: some probable issues and possible answers

Discussions of academic misconduct are often focused upon text and text based plagiarism. The complex issues that surround the origination, adoption, use or incorporation of creative materials are often implicitly, rather than explicitly, ignored. Myths concerning the acceptability and legality of the adoption of material from the web appear common. Circumstances that will not be helpful to students seeking conventional careers or prudent staff wishing to avoid accusations of academic misconduct. In extreme cases research work has been misrepresented and data fabricated or falsified. This degree of fraud, an intentionally outrageous category of academic misconduct, is not discussed here. However, it should be noted that not only may reputations be abused or unjustifiably enhanced but the scientific record becomes corrupted and the implications, when the research is applied, virtually un-imaginable. (Corbyn, 2009 and Lock, 1996) The conventional peer review process alone cannot prevent misconduct but detection software is now supporting this task. The presentation of discredited but published papers has become formalised within the scientific record and is now, usually, directly linked to the refuting materials (Fox, 1994; Porter, 1998 and 2010) This paper discusses some of the issues confronting virtually anybody creating presentations, publishing articles or teaching with materials containing images and other intellectual property. The paper seeks to provide a workable, systematic approach that respects pedagogical tradition and is adaptable to a wide range of scholarly contexts

AC+erm Project. Transforming Information & Records Management through Research & Development? Proceedings of the 3rd Northumbria International Witness Seminar Conference

These proceedings capture the content of the third Witness Seminar hosted by Northumbria University’s School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences. It built on the success of our two previous witness seminars, in terms of its format and style, but was also different in some important ways. Firstly, it represented the final event of a 3-year Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded research project – Accelerating positive change in e-records management (AC+erm); secondly, the seminars took a series of questions, rather than articles, as their starting point; and thirdly, it was much shorter, lasting only half a day. Although it was the final AC+erm project event, and therefore show cased some of the project’s outputs, the sessions and discussions were deliberately designed to revolve around the broader context of research and development in records and information management

HSLIC Annual Report FY2007-08

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