Events

  • Final PARSE.Insight workshop, Geneva, Switzerland: to be announced
  • PARSE.Insight workshop, 21-22 Sept 2009, Darmstadt, Germany - This event has now passed

Latest news

Survey graphs online

12 Feb, 2010

After publishing the survey results end of last year, PARSE.Insight has now released the statistics in a graphical online format. Each graph in the survey report is also available online and can be referenced or even embedded in your own research. Check out the graphs on Swivel.com.

Survey results published

9 Dec, 2009

PARSE.Insight has published their results of several surveys undertaken to enlight the current state of affair of digital preservation in research. The surveys were targeted to three main stakeholders in science: researchers, data managers and publishers. These results are now wrapped up in a report and gives an in-depth view on preservation of research data. Furthermore, a cross analysis has been done amongst the stakeholders. The report is now available: download survey report.

Later on, the graphs that were used in this report will become available separately as well.

First insights published

14 Sept, 2009

PARSE.Insight has published the first insights into preservation of research data. In the past months various surveys have been undertaken to enlight the current state of affair of digital preservation in research. Furthermore, three case studies are performed focussing on High Energy Physics (HEP), Earth Observarion (EO) and Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH). Although research in these cases is still going on, the first results, together with the highlights of the surveys can be found in this interim report.

PARSE.Insight successfully reviewed

June 18, 2009

On June 2, 2009 PARSE.Insight had its first annual review by reviewers of the European Commission in Brussels. The project showed good progress, and the reviewers were pleased with the first year's goals and achievements. For a summary of project's results of the first year click here.

PARSE.insight newsletter nr 1

30 June, 2009

PARSE.Insight has just published its first newsletter. It summarizes the results of the project's first year. The Newsletter is available here.

PARSE.Insight successfully reviewed

June 18, 2009

On June 2, 2009 PARSE.Insight had its first annual review by reviewers of the European Commission in Brussels. The project showed good progress, and the reviewers were pleased with the first year's goals and achievements. For a summary of project's results of the first year click here.

PARSE.insight and upcoming conferences

June 18, 2009

PARSE.insight will be present at the following upcoming conference:
The 5th International Conference on e-Social Science of the National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) will be held on 24-26 June 2009 in Cologne (Germany) in collaboration with the German Social Science Infrastructure Services (GESIS). PARSE.Insight will be there as well and will present some first results of its case study in Psycholinguistics in a poster about data sharing.

The LIBER 38th Annual General Conference will take place in Toulouse (France) on 30 June-3 July 2009. PARSE.Insight will be there as well and will present some first results of its general survey. The poster about the insight survey will be displayed on 2 and 3 July.

PARSE.insight ready for first year review

May 19, 2009

On June, 2 2009 PARSE.insight will have its first annual review by reviewers of the European Commission in Brussels. Looking back on the past year, the project showed good progress in defining a draft roadmap for building the e-Science infrastructure in European. Furthermore, an extensive survey is in progress for identifying Europe's current position on digital preservation regarding research. Also, specifications have been defined for performing a gap analysis between the roadmap and the current state of affair and development of standards on which an audit and certification process for digital repositories can be based. For a summary of the first year's goals and achievements, click here.

PARSE.insight present at several occasions

May 6, 2009

In coming months, PARSE.insight will be present at various occasions across Europe. To start with, PARSE.insight will present a poster and leaflets at the The XXXII. Librarian Meeting for the members of the Max Planck Society will take place on 4-6 May in Garching near Munich (Germany). On 2-5 June 2009, PARSE.Insight will present some first results of one of its case studies with a speech about open data in the Psycholinguistics at the 98th German Librarian Day (All presentations are in German only).

To continue, nestor, a network of expertise in long-term preservation and long-term availability of digital resources, will have its closing event on 10 June 2009 in Berlin (Germany). PARSE.insight will be there as well and will present an outline of its motivations and objectives in a poster and a leaflet.

Workshop on Data Preservation and
Long Term Analysis in HEP

May 6, 2009

In January 2009, PARSE.Insight presented the High-Energy Physics (HEP) survey on data preservation, re-use and (open) access performed by CERN at the "Workshop on Data Preservation and Long Term Analysis in HEP (Open Access and Long Term Collaborative Governance)" in Hamburg (Germany). The presentation can be downloaded here.

Workshop: Funding for Data Preservation

December 18, 2008

On 27 of January 2009, a workshop will be held for experts dealing with funding of long-term preservation of scientific data. The workshop will take place in Goettingen (Germany) as a part of the DFG-funded project KoLaWiss ("Kooperative Langzeitarchivierung fur Wissenschaftsstandorte" - "Co-operative digital preservation for scientific centres"). PARSE.Insight is on the agenda as well and an outline will be given of the project. Click here for the programme. (workshop will be in German).

DCC Conference 2008

December 1, 2008
DCC Seminar 2008

In partnership with the National e-Science Centre (NeSC) and supported by the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) DCC holds the 4th International Digital Curation Conference in Edinburgh on 1-3 December. The intentions of PARSE.insight will be presented in a leaflet and a poster at the conference.

Alliance Conference report online

November 18, 2008
APA Conference 2008

The annual conference of the Alliance for Permanent Access took place in Budapest on 4 November. A comprehensive conference report together with the powerpoint presentations, abstracts and authors' biographies can be found on the Alliance's website.

PARSE.insight at iPRES 2008

September 29, 2008
iPRES 2008

The yearly conference iPRES, this year hosted by the British Library (BL) in London, is the place to be if you're interested in preservation of digital content. PARSE.insight is there as well and will present an outline of the motivations and objectives of this project in a poster.