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Collaboration for Research Enhancement by Active Metadata (CREAM)

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  • CREAM
  • Project targets
  • What is?
    • Active metadata
      • Carol and Martin dialogue
    • Research enhancement
    • Workflow
    • GeosMeta
    • Procedural Blending
  • Glossary
  • Outputs
    • Guidelines
      • Structural framework
    • Exemplars
    • Perspectives
    • Projects
      • Annalist analyses
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    • Our status
    • Our meetings
      • 11th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC16)
      • Agenda for Team Meeting, Friday 13th November
      • Agenda for Team Meeting, Monday 21st September
  • Related activities
  • Who are we?
    • Contact us

Author: Colin Bird

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CREAM at IDCC16

Colin Bird Feb 29, 2016

Iris, Cerys, and Colin attended – and very much enjoyed – the IDCC16 Conference in Amsterdam, 22-25 February 2016. Our presentation, “Using metadata actively”, began by explaining that making metadata mean more was our aim, expressed in just four words. …

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Getting ready for Phase 3

Colin Bird Jan 18, 2016

Being cautiously optimistic about the prospects for Phase 3 and not wanting to let the grass grow under our feet, we had an all-hands teleconference on Friday 15th January. Given the paths to delivery that we had outlined in our …

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Sandpit 3 viewpoint

Colin Bird Dec 12, 2015

Sandpit 3 is now behind us, and a worthwhile and enjoyable event it was. Our pitch should become available from Daniela’s Padlet, together with images from other sessions. Notably for us, the discussion about commonalities between art and science run …

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Preparing for Sandpit 3

Colin Bird Nov 28, 2015

As Phase 2 of the Research Data Spring initiative nears its end, we are well into our preparations for Sandpit 3. A teleconference on Friday 27th produced team agreement about the three main deliverables that we will propose for Phase …

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Team meeting, Chelsea College, UAL, 13 November 2015

Colin Bird Nov 14, 2015

Colin is preparing a summary report of our recent team meeting and will add it to the page http://blog.soton.ac.uk/cream/project-outputs/our-meetings/

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Preparing for our next team meeting

Colin Bird Nov 9, 2015

All arrangements are well in hand for our next team meeting, which will be in the Card Room at Chelsea College, University of the Arts London. The agenda is available from the ‘Our meetings’ menu on the website. We are …

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Month 3 Milestone: Preliminary report on deliverables

Colin Bird Oct 30, 2015

Our long-term goal is to create guidelines and exemplars to demonstrate how the active use of metadata can make research more effective, agile and timely for researchers. For Phase 2 we undertook to produce a “structural outline” to show what …

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Developing our deliverables

Colin Bird Oct 26, 2015

We have formed a working group with the specific aim of developing the structural framework that will not only be a key Phase 2 deliverable but also form the outline for the active use of metadata guidance that is our …

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Spreading the word

Colin Bird Oct 16, 2015

Since our 21st September meeting, as well as continuing our work on characterising metadata usage with Annalist and developing our documentation of the active metadata concept and how we might produce appropriate guidance, we have submitted two Practice Papers and …

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Docs meeting, Edinburgh, 29th September

Colin Bird Sep 29, 2015

Mike, Magnus, and Colin are meeting at the University of Edinburgh to review and augment two of the documents that we are working on, leading up to the structural outline of the guidance that is one of our final deliverables. …

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