http://www.sparceurope.org daily 1 2006-12-10T00:37:06Z http://www.sparceurope.org/esof-2012 <b> Euroscience Open Forum </b> <br></br> <p>The Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) is Europe’s largest, general science meeting and is held in a leading Europe city every two years. The first meeting was held in Stockholm in 2004, followed by Munich (2006), Barcelona (2008) and Turin (2010). Dublin was awarded the honour of hosting ESOF in 2012, following an open competition. Copenhagen will host then event in 2014.</p> <p><br /></p> <p>ESOF incorporates a number of distinct stands of activity:</p> <ul><li>A Science programme of seminars, workshops and debates on the latest science and technology</li><li>A Media programme to promote science communication.</li><li>A Careers programme for young researchers.</li><li>A Science-2-Business programme to link basic research with industrial applications.</li><li>An Exhibition to showcase the best of European public and private research.</li><li>A Science in the City programme to engage with the general public.</li><li>A Social programme to ensure that delegate experience is socially, culturally and intellectually invigorating.</li></ul> <p>Early bird registration is currently open, with a special rate for students.<br /></p> No publisher sparc 2011-11-20T22:16:01Z Event http://www.sparceurope.org/elpub-2012 <b> “Social Shaping of Digital Publishing: Exploring the interplay between Culture and Technology” </b> <br></br> Elpub 2012 will be focusing on the social shaping of digital publishing by exploring the interplay between culture and technology. This is why we are doing it in the European Capital of Culture for 2012, Guimarães. Topics include but are not restricted to Digital Scholarship, Open Access and Open Science, Interoperability and the Intelligent Web, The Social and Mobile Web, The legal, secure and trustful Web, Innovative interfaces, interaction and visualization, Failures and learnings, and the future of Digital Publishing. Contributions are invited for research papers; posters and extended abstracts. Accepted full papers will be published by IOS Press in a digital format open access conference proceedings book. Deadline for submission of full-text papers and extended abstracts (in all categories) is 9 January 2012. No publisher sparc 2011-11-14T09:39:46Z Event http://www.sparceurope.org/qqml2012 <b> 4th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2012) </b> <br></br> <p>QQML2012 will discuss New Trends in Library Science and enjoy the beauties of Limerick and the Ireland landscape.</p> <p></p> <p class="callout">First Call of Proposals QQML2012<br /></p> <p>Papers are invited for this international conference. The conference will consider, but not be limited to, the following indicative themes:</p> <ul><li>Advocacy, networking and influencing</li><li>Communication, Copyright and licensing Data mining</li><li>Development and Assessment of Digital Repositories  </li><li>Development of new metrics</li><li>Digital archives</li><li>Digital preservation</li><li>Digitization</li><li>Distance learning and the role of the library, etc </li></ul> <p>Abstract submission is open until 30 October 2011; submissions of proposal or sessions should be sent to <a href="mailto:secretariat@isast.org">secretariat@isast.org</a>.</p> No publisher sparc 2011-09-15T15:56:24Z Event http://www.sparceurope.org/public-private-personal-navigating-the-open-data-landscape <b> 7th International Digital Curation Conference </b> <br></br> Digital curation manages, maintains, preserves, and adds value to digital information throughout its lifecycle, reducing threats to long-term value, mitigating the risk of digital obsolescence and enhancing usefulness for research and scholarship. No publisher sparc 2011-09-08T14:19:30Z Event http://www.sparceurope.org/the-6th-munin-conference-on-scientific-publishing <b> An annual conference on scientific publishing, with an Open Access approach </b> <br></br> <h2>Keynotes are</h2> <ul><li>Martin Rasmussen, Managing Director, Copernicus Publications, Germany</li><li>Dr Cameron Neylon, Senior Scientist in Biomolecular Sciences at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), UK<br /></li></ul> <h2>Call for Presentations and Posters</h2> <p>Call for papers are welcome on topics including but not limited to:</p> <ul><li>Open access publishing</li><li>Open access to scientific data</li><li>New formats of scientific journals and scientific papers</li><li>The borderline between scientific publishing and impartment of knowledge</li><li>The peer review system</li></ul> <p>Deadline for abstract submission is 22 August 2011.</p> No publisher sparc Scientific Publishing 2011-06-16T18:00:15Z Event