Prof Sheila Corrall and University Librarian Martin Lewis (a member of the iSchool's Advisory Panel) are attending the 7th International Digital Curation Conference in Bristol on 6-7 December, where they are jointly presenting a poster on Building Library Capacity for Managing Data. The poster depicts updated and new models that capture current thinking and emergent practice on roles and competencies in the changing digital landscape to help library and information professionals make sense of the challenges and opportunities in the present environment.
A project to create a raspberry pi weather station is currently live in the Information School. The Sheffield Pi weather station has been created by Romilly Close, undergraduate Aerospace Engineering student at the University of Sheffield. The project was funded by the Sheffield Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) scheme and is being supervised by Dr Jo Bates, Paula Goodale and Fred Sonnenwald from the Information School. Information about the Sheffield Pi station and how to create your own can be found on the project website . You can also see live data from the Sheffield Pi station on Plot.ly , and further information can also be found on the Met Office Weather Observations Website . This work compliments the School’s existing project entitled ‘The Secret Life of a Weather Datum’ which explores socio-cultural influences on weather data. This project is funded under the AHRC’s Digital Transformations Big Data call. It aims to pilot a new approach to im
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