Posted by s.hettrick on 12 July 2013 - 3:07pm

Digital Research practice, tools and infrastructures have been embraced by researchers across all disciplines. In sciences and humanities, from big data analytics to citizen scholarship, we are harnessing our new digital capabilities ranging from the Web and new devices to e-Infrastructure, High Performance Computing and the Cloud. While adoption and investment grow the community continues to innovate.

The goal of the Digital Research conference series is to showcase today's digital research practice and innovation, and to set an influential agenda for tomorrow. This year we are inviting contributions under the themes of The Data Scientist and Digital Research Showcase.

The Data Scientist

Data Science, and especially the Data Scientist, are hot topics in both research and business, especially with today's emphasis on Big Data. Our goal is to help define the role and skills of the Data Scientist, drawing on the community's many years of experience in data analytics. For example, what are the special needs of research and how much technology and methodology can be shared with business analytics? If you are a Data Scientist we want to hear what it is you do, and if you need a data scientist we want to hear what you want. We are interested also in your experience of skills and training, and of the Data Science Curriculum.

Digital Research Showcase

The Digital Research Showcase enables the community to share the latest technologies, results and methods, highlighting collaborations between Research Technologists and those primarily engaged in research who are using Digital Research to provide new insights. The scope is the broad digital research ecosystem, which includes digital research applications in any discipline, tools, methods, practice, all aspects of e-Infrastructure, the research environment, digital curation, data management policy and practice, analytics, modelling, simulation, visualization, open science, open data and software, linked data, automation, standards, long tail and citizen science.

Submission Details

The submission format is a 1-2 page (1000 words max plus figures) abstract. Please indicate your preferred presentation format: oral, poster, or demo. All submissions will be reviewed for their original contribution to the programme. Submissions for oral presentation may be accepted instead for poster presentation or invited for panel presentation. All accepted abstracts will be made available online.

Please submit your abstracts via EasyChair by 4 August 2013. We have organised a rapid review phase to determine the programme so that notifications can be provided as soon as possible after the deadline.

Programme Chair: John Brooke, University of Manchester
Local organisation: Clem Harris and Adi Himpson