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Visualising Research bringing public data to life

Visualising Research bringing public data to life. Welcome and introductions. Dr Lee-Ann Coleman Head of Science, British Library. www.bl.uk/beautiful-science. Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science Bollen et al, (2009) PLoS One DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0004803.

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Visualising Research bringing public data to life

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  1. Visualising Research bringing public data to life

  2. Welcome and introductions Dr Lee-Ann Coleman Head of Science, British Library

  3. www.bl.uk/beautiful-science

  4. Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science Bollen et al, (2009) PLoS One DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004803

  5. Programme 10:20 - 10:45 Welcome and Introductions Lee-Ann Coleman (British Library), Beverley Thomas (BBSRC), Pamela Mason (AHRC) 10:45 - 11:30 Gateway to Research data and API outline Richard Jones (Cottage Labs) 11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break - Share your ideas and seek collaborators for your competition entry 12:00 - 12:55 Data Visualisation Tobias Sturtand Adam Frost (Guardian Digital Agency) 12:55 - 13:00 Pre-lunch update Lee-Ann Coleman (British Library) 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch - Look out for other people with similar interests and ideas 14:00 - 14:30 ScienceoGramAndrew Steele (University of Oxford) 14:30 - 15:30 Hacking Time Richard Jones and Mark MacGillivray (Cottage Labs) will be available for questions on the Gateway to Research API and data 15:30 - 15:40 Wrap Up and Competition Entry Details Lee-Ann Coleman (British Library) 15:40 - 16:00 Finishing up an opportunity to finish discussions

  6. For this competition, we value: • Enlightening the general public over targeting niche special-interest groups • Use of Open Data over use of proprietary data • Open collaborations over entries by individuals • Conveyance of accurate and clear information over sensationalism • Cross-disciplinary teams (developers, designers, graphic artists, journalists, etc) over single-discipline teams • A finished, re-usable, shareable visualisation over a concept or paper prototype

  7. The competition Entry forms available from the website: http://datasets.org.uk/compo/compo.html on Monday 27 January Closing date: 21 March 2014 (17:00 GMT) Winning entry announced: 28 April 2014 Prize: £2,000 Judges: Jackie Hunter (CEO: BBSRC); Mark Llewellyn (Director of Research, AHRC), Katy Börner(Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science, Indiana University), Adam Frost and Tobias Sturt(Guardian Digital Agency).

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