Enterprise Abstraction

ICSTI 2009 Conference Ottawa

CISTI is sponsoring the ICSTI 2009 Conference June 9-10 in Ottawa. 

"Sharing research data is essential for effective collaboration. Few scientists, however, have the time or resources to ensure sustainable access to data for joint projects, domain-specific applications or re-use.

The ICSTI 2009 conference will examine how researchers, librarians and publishers can work together to create structures for managing and communicating scientific data."

For more information checkout http://www.icsti2009.org/.

Dealing with large sets of data

theinfo.org is a nascent wiki resource for members of the library community dealing with large data sets, and related visualization, tools, algorithms.

- via oss4lib - Aaron Swartz.

Metadata management and EA

DM Review Magazine has an article this month entitled Metadata Management & Enterprise Architecture:  Understanding Data Governance and Stewardship, Part 1. In part 1 David Marco and Anne Marie Smite discuss data governance, and the benefits therein.

It is a topic that holds much importance for most organizations, but particularly for us at CISTI, and our constant battle with sets of bibliographic metadata, along with the financial/client/transactional data of our day to day service provision.  Traditionally data was the domain of a particular silo, but as we move forward, it's becoming clear to everyone that management of data is exceptionally important to achieve the most efficient and effective use of the information across business lines.  "Who owns this data?" is likely to be as much a question as "who owns this service?"  We're finding that the answer to that question is not as obvious as it used to be.