ResBaz at Research@Library Week!
At Research Platforms we are collaborating with Research@library week, 22-26 August, to highlight the amazing research initiatives happening at The University of Melbourne.
R@Lweek program: http://library.unimelb.edu.au/research/researcher@library-week/program
What’s on:
Emilie, Research Community Coordinator for Computer Aided Design and Speaker for the Beyond VCA and MCM: Research and Collaboration forum, 26th of August, 3pm - 5pm
After her first blogpost, Emilie was contacted by the Lenton Parr Library at the VCA to participate in their forum on researchers who collaborate or work with researchers and practitioners from other disciplines. Emilie will talk about how Research Bazaar has help her with opening up her practice to include 3D printing in her artworks. Come and join us for this great initiative where you will also get the chance to hear about other researchers carrying amazing collaboration.
Event: Beyond VCA and MCM: Research and Collaboration (Southbank), 26/08 3pm-5pm
Emilie is a PhD candidate for Fine Arts at the Victoria School of Arts
Kim, lead of data visualisation and data mining and organiser of Research Tools Speed Dating events, 24/25 August
Research Platforms is running three Research Tools Speed Dating events for Researcher @ Library week. The event will present a fast-paced introduction to free digital tools, designed to support, help manage, share and present your research in new ways.
Humanities & Social Sciences
Wednesday 24 August, 10am-11am
Click through for full list of tools & registration: http://library.unimelb.edu.au/research/researcher@library-week/program/research-tools-speed-dating-hass
VCA & MCM - Fine Arts & Music (Southbank)
Wednesday 24 August, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Click through for full list of tools & registration: http://library.unimelb.edu.au/research/researcher@library-week/program/research-tools-speed-dating-vca-and-mcm
STEM
Thursday 25 August, 10am-11am
Click through for full list of tools & registration: http://library.unimelb.edu.au/research/researcher@library-week/program/research-tools-speed-dating-stem
Meredith, Research Community Coordinator in data visualisation and organiser of Omeka workshops events, 22/26 August
OMEKA is an image repository created for galleries, museums, and cultural collections, and is also a valuable tool for researchers. In this workshop you will learn the basics of Omeka, including formatting data, creating metadata, building a collection and creating an online exhibition.
Omeka Workshop (Parkville), Monday 22 August, 10am-12pm
http://library.unimelb.edu.au/research/researcher@library-week/program/omeka-workshop-southbank
Omeka Workshop (Southbank), Friday 26 August, 10am-12pm
http://library.unimelb.edu.au/research/researcher@library-week/program/omeka-workshop-parkville
Meredith, Masters graduate in English Literature (left) & Kim, PhD Candidate in Communications (right) at the 2016 Research Bazaar
Isabel, Engagement Officer at the Research Bazaar and speaker on getting your research online
Researcher profiles: Managing your digital ID (online seminar)
Online author identifiers ensure that when you publish online, your work is correctly attributed to the real you. This online seminar will discuss ORCID, Researcher ID, Scopus, and Google Scholar profiles. Isabel will be chatting about her first-hand experience using these platforms, and UniMelb librarians will guide you through setting them up. If you haven’t yet set up these vital profiles, this is a fantastic opportunity to find the motivation!
Monday 22 August, 11am - 12pm
http://library.unimelb.edu.au/research/researcher@library-week/program/researcher-profiles-managing-your-digital-id-online-seminar
Sharing Your Article: Scholarly Communication and Open Access (Parkville)
As academic publishing moves into cyberspace, the do’s, don’ts, advantages and limitations of online scholarly sharing are still being fine-tuned. This event brings together representatives from the publishing industry, UniMelb’s Research & Collections, and the research community, to discuss the use of Scholarly Communication Networks (SCNs) like Mendeley, ResearchGate, and academia.edu, as well as UniMelb’s own repository, Minerva. Isabel will share her first-hand experience of using SCNs, as part of her work with ResPlat developing a program to manage the online presence and impact of researchers at UniMelb.
Wednesday 24 August, 2:15pm - 3:45pm
http://library.unimelb.edu.au/research/researcher@library-week/program/sharing-your-article-scholarly-communication-and-open-access
Isabel is a PhD candidate in Psychology
Errol, Research Community Coordinator in data visualisation and organiser of a data visualisation gallery and panel session.
Two forces are shaping science and research. First there is data. More of it and more analysis of it. Many fields are increasingly focusing on the gathering and use of bigger datasets. Others are entirely about big data. And many of us will know and feel the the need in our work for bigger and richer data. More importantly, we can all feel the burden of understanding and making sense of large and complex data. The most powerful and intuitive tool for this is data visualisation, especially when done in a way that is dynamic and interactive. The second force is the extent to which research publication and dissemination will be done through the internet and social networking. Many labs and researchers now have incredibly rich and informative websites. Even the journals can see what the web is doing with their endorsement of video abstracts. A time is coming where paper abstracts may very well be read and viewed on or through facebook as or more readily as behind a paywall. The convergence of these two forces comes when you realise that one of the most visually rich and interactive and dynamic technologies of today is the very thing you are staring at right now … the internet. The internet has been designed for this. It’s part of the reason we all use it so much. Now, the tools have been developed such that it is easily within the grasp of all researchers to not only develop rich, interactive and dynamic website based visualisations that allow them to explore their data and research more insightfully, but to also publish it on the web allowing anyone to understand and see their work.
During Research@library week, to show off what can be done in this space, we will be presenting an exhibition of data visualisations on Monday 22 August, including interactive web-based visualisations made by researchers here at the University. I will also, along with Associate Professor Gavan McCarthy and Dr. Arif Jubaer, be speaking specifically about what tools ResBaz can help you with in order get into this domain. This event will be on Thursday 25 August. Please come along or drop us a line at ResBaz if you’re interested in getting online and interactive with your research and dataviz.
Errol is a PhD Candidate in Visual Neuroscience
