Microsoft Research Connections and UKOLN are working in partnership on an exciting new project to develop a Community Capability Model for Data-Intensive Research, building upon the principles described in The Fourth Paradigm. More details at http://communitymodel.sharepoint.com.

The first consultation workshop (held on 28 September at the University of York, UK) focused on discussing and describing technological aspects for enabling research, such as common data infrastructure, standards, and ontologies. Social aspects such as collaborative approaches, open engagement and socio-legal issues will also be explored. The ultimate aim is to provide a framework that is useful for researchers and funders in modelling a range of disciplinary and community behaviours with respect to the adoption, usage, development and exploitation of cyber-infrastructure for data-intensive research.

This (second) consultation workshop will focus on discussing and describing scholarly communications to enable data-intensive research, such as collaborative authoring platforms, common data formats and identifiers, data-sharing, data citation and socio-legal issues. Check the programme at http://communitymodel.sharepoint.com/Documents/CCMDIR_Harvard2011Programme-final.docx.

Aimed at researchers, digital repository managers, staff from library, information and research organisations, data curators, data centre managers, data scientists, research funding organisations and research networks.