#dataspring Sandpit Workshop in Birmingham

~ Ernesto Priego

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Andy Byers and I are going to Birmingham today to participate in the #dataspring Sandpit Workshop from Jisc.

Research Data Spring is Jisc’s collaborative initiative for UK research:

“Its purpose is to gather fresh ideas and develop them into new solutions that would ease the pain points in research data management and improve the much needed software and standards, as well as prototype new shared services.

In the first phase we saw a high rate of participation. Approximately 600 researchers, librarians, publishers, developers and other third parties involved in the research data lifecycle posted 70 ideas and more the 150 comments on our IdeaScale community. We have selected 44 of these to join in at the sandpit workshop.”

In case you are interested we have written about our idea here.

The sandpit workshop runs for two days; Andy and I will be there today (Thursday) and Andy will stay for tomorrow too (I teach on Fridays).

Looking forward to what comes up.

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My passion is creating opportunities for discovery, creativity and innovation. I am an advocate for enhanced access to information as a public good. I enjoy fostering engagement and openness, facilitating collaboration and mentoring. My main focus is multi-disciplinary and involves practically and theoretically connecting the dots between varied, closely-related fields and topics: comics studies; human-computer interaction design, library and information science, digital humanities, scholarly communications, publishing studies, digital innovation and material culture, intellectual rights and open science, access, data and educational resources. I love writing and spreading the word about the things I believe in. I love higher education and the Internet and I define myself as a digital scholarship advocate. I love working collaboratively and on my own. You can still follow me and/or contact me via Twitter @ernestopriego.