http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk This section acts as a central repository for news stories from the Oxford e-Research Centre. To receive news updates as they become available you can subscribe to our RSS feed. daily 1 2008-03-25T23:02:04Z http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/consortium-brings-uk2019s-most-powerful-research-intensive-universities-together The most powerful cluster of research intensive universities in the UK are joining forces to form a new consortium to become one of the world's leading hubs for science and engineering research. The Science and Engineering South Consortium has been initiated to pool the collective insights and resources of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Southampton, Imperial College London and University College London. These world-leading centres for research, the SES-5, will innovate and explore new ideas through collaboration whilst providing efficiencies of scale and shared utilisation of facilities to increase the return on existing and future public investment. No publisher adi 2013-05-08T23:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/scientific-data Oxford e-Research Centre member Susanna-Assunta Sansone has been appointed Honorary Academic Editor of Scientific Data, a new open-access, online-only platform for the publication of descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets, to be launched by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) in Spring 2014. No publisher adi 2013-04-03T23:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/big-data-and-the-long-tail-use-and-reuse-of-little-data A video of professor Christine Borgman's seminar on the use and reuse of little data is now abvailable to view on our website. Her slides and a full abstract are also available for download. No publisher adi 2013-03-20T00:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/siena-project-wins-award The SIENA Project, in which the e-Research Centre is a partner, won a prize at the 10th e-Infrastructure Concertation Meeting in Brussels, this week. The awards highlighted the best success stories from the FP7 Capacities funding programme in e-Infrastructures, with SIENA winning 2nd Prize in the Competitive Industries section of the competition. No publisher adi 2013-03-06T00:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/nanotechnology-standards-at-the-centre The lack of common reporting standards for nanotechnology research is a significant barriers to data sharing and re-use. Members of the ISA project have helped the Nanotechnology Working Group of the US National Institutes of Health National Cancer Informatics Program to address these issues. No publisher adi 2013-02-06T00:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/cosmos-project-launches-funded-with-20ac2m-from-ec Oxford e-Research Centre is a core participant in a newly launched global effort to enable free and open sharing of metabolomics data. Coordinated by Dr Christoph Steinbeck of the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, COSMOS (Coordination of Standards in Metabolomics) will bring together European data providers to set and promote community standards that will make it easier to disseminate metabolomics data through life science e-infrastructures. This Coordination Action has been financed with €2 million by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme.

 No publisher adi 2012-10-07T23:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/aiming-to-make-research-data-more-interpretable-reusable-and-visible We are pleased to announce that Dr Susanna-Assunta Sansone will be working with Nature Publishing Group from October 2012 as a consultant developing products aimed to make research data more interpretable, reusable and visible. No publisher adi 2012-09-29T23:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/new-director-of-oxford-e-research-centre Prof David De Roure has been appointed as Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre, succeeding Prof Anne Trefethen who became Oxford's Chief Information Officer earlier this year. David will continue the Centre's commitment to technical innovation and the generation of new research outcomes and capabilities through collaborations across the University, and is looking forward to building on the Centre's international reputation in e-Science and advanced digital scholarship. No publisher adi 2012-08-20T23:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-recognised-by-gchq-as-leader-in-cyber-security It was announced today by GCHQ, one of the three UK intelligence agencies, that Oxford University has been recognised as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research. The award recognises the University’s long track record of excellence in this area of research and aims to ensure that work done at Oxford helps to protect the UK from cyber attack as well as opening up new business and research opportunities. No publisher adi 2012-04-01T23:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/university-of-oxford-awarded-a31.25-million-to-promote-high-performance-computing The University of Oxford is pleased to announce that it has been successful in attracting £3.7m of funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through a collaborative bid with the Universities of Bristol, Southampton and UCL to create a Centre for Innovation in High Performance Computing methods and technologies. No publisher adi 2012-03-25T23:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/e-research-centre-director-appointed-as-university-cio Professor Anne Trefethen, Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre, has been appointed to the new post of Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the University. In addition to her duties as CIO, Anne will continue to oversee the e-Research Centre until a new Director has been appointed. No publisher adi 2012-03-05T00:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/dataflow-project-beta-software-released-seeking-test-users The JISC/University Modernisation Fund sponsored DataFlow Project at the University of Oxford have completed a beta software release and are looking for test users! No publisher adi 2012-02-20T00:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-marina-jirotka-joins-visiting-committee-for-the-the-institute-of-systems-science-at-the-national-university-of-singapore Dr Marina Jirotka has been invited by The Institute of Systems Science at the National University of Singapore to be a member of a Visiting Committee of international experts to carry out an assessment of the Master of Technology (MTech) degree programme with specialisations in Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering in February 2012. No publisher adi 2012-02-06T00:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/virtual-research-environment-for-cancer-imaging-sandbox-release The Virtual Research Environment for Cancer Imaging (VRE-CI) based at the Oxford e-Research Centre has now released its SharePoint Sandbox Solution as open source in Codeplex under the New BSD License. No publisher adi 2012-02-03T00:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/cibnor-and-oxford-e-research-centre-memorandum-of-understanding We are delighted to announce that the Oxford e-Research Centre and the Northwestern Centre of Biological Research (CIBNOR ) in Mexico have now in place a Memorandum of Understanding.... No publisher adi 2012-02-01T00:00:00Z News Item