Papers by sms digital centre
This is an example of a risk register for a hybrid event created as part of the Digital Curation ... more This is an example of a risk register for a hybrid event created as part of the Digital Curation Centre's preparation for a hybrid RDA Plenary and made available as part of the "Planning hybrid events" guide. You can adjust this based on your local situation and planning preparations.
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This is an example of a budget for a hybrid event created as part of the Digital Curation Centre&... more This is an example of a budget for a hybrid event created as part of the Digital Curation Centre's preparation for a hybrid RDA Plenary and made available as part of the "Planning hybrid events" guide. You can adjust this based on your local situation and planning preparations.
The first aim of this study was to test the possible relation between complexity and resilient mo... more The first aim of this study was to test the possible relation between complexity and resilient motor performance (i.e., performance while being perturbed). The second aim was to test whether complexity and resilient performance improve through differential learning. To address our aims, we designed two parallel experiments involving a motor task, in which participants moved a stick with their non-dominant hand along a slider. Participants could score points by moving a cursor as fast and accurately as possible between two boxes, positioned on the right- and left side of the screen in front of them. In a first session, we determined the complexity by analyzing the temporal structure of variation in the box-to-box movement intervals with a Detrended Fluctuation Analysis. Then, we introduced perturbations to the task: We altered the tracking speed of the cursor relative to the stick-movements briefly (i.e., 4 seconds) at intervals of 1 minute (Experiment 1), or we induced a prolonged c...
This document presents an updated review of Open Data and Open Science policies in Europe as of J... more This document presents an updated review of Open Data and Open Science policies in Europe as of July 2019. It does not include Open Access to publications policy. This analysis goes more into depth on the types of policy in place in Europe, their processes of creation, and some of their specifics. This updated version of the deeper analysis reflects changes that have been identified between November 2018 and July 2019. We concentrate on the twenty-eight EU member states, but we also consider relevant countries from the European Research Area, namely Iceland, Norway, Serbia and Switzerland. This report is the the fourth version of a report which was originally published in 2017.
Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS 1) represents a sophisticated combination of technical and... more Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS 1) represents a sophisticated combination of technical and businessaware elements that can be deployed to ensure the longterm accessibility to electronic journal content even if the publisher ceases to exist, a subscription is terminated, or the already acquired content becomes damaged. Given the potential benefits of LOCKSS to the UK community, and in consideration of the implications of the NESLi2 licences, the Joint Information Systems Committee 2 and the Consortium of University Research Libraries 3 (JISC/CURL) co-funded a UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme to explore issues associated with the practical implementation of LOCKSS in UK Higher Education institutions. The pilot launched in March 2006 and concluded in July 2008. Following on from our experiences throughout the UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme, this paper discusses the organizational attributes of the LOCKSS approach that we expect to further develop in the UK, describes the types of journal content that the current generation of LOCKSS seems best suited to handle and as a result how LOCKSS may fit into the broader journal archiving environment, and it describes the steps we are taking to ensure both the LOCKSS software and Technical Support Service grow effectively to support library use and information management.
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The Repositories Support Project Briefing Paper on ‘Metadata ’ 1 examines how metadata standards ... more The Repositories Support Project Briefing Paper on ‘Metadata ’ 1 examines how metadata standards can be used to make it easier to find, use and manage digital objects stored in an institutional repository. Long-term preservation of these objects can also be handled using metadata standards. This Web Advisory Document introduces The PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, v2.0 2, the current authoritative metadata
Subject Data curation; formats, processes and issues; system development; standards; legal factor... more Subject Data curation; formats, processes and issues; system development; standards; legal factors; methodology, and problems overcome; human factors Description This case study has been produced for the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) SCARP project, funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to investigate disciplinary attitudes and approaches to data deposit. The study reviews the curation landscape in several interdisciplinary fields that use video analysis in studies of human interaction. Field research for the study involved semi-structured interviews with researchers and participant observation in their informal data sharing and analysis sessions. Researchers were working in a variety of projects across social sciences, humanities and computing; from domains including human geography, psychology, sociology, social informatics, and linguistics. The study primarily
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
Describing the relationship with one’s cat in human terms might reflect an underlying anthropomor... more Describing the relationship with one’s cat in human terms might reflect an underlying anthropomorphic view of the relationship which might be associated with an owner’s behavior towards their cat and the cat’s living environment. Owners self-categorized the relationship with their cat as either a ‘member of the family’, ‘as a child’, ‘best friend’, or ‘a pet animal’. The extent to which owner- and cat-related factors influence these four relationship descriptions are examined in survey data of approximately 1800 cat owners. Differences in outdoor access, care during absence of the owner, and access to the bedroom are examined between the four relationship perceptions. The owner’s age and household composition, ideas about their cat’s equality, support, and dependency, and whether their cat is a pedigree were significantly associated with relationship description and explained 46% of the variance. Owners who perceive their cat as a child or best friend see their cat as loyal, empathe...
Frontiers in Medicine, 2021
Purpose: There is a need for more intuitive perimetric screening methods, which can also be perfo... more Purpose: There is a need for more intuitive perimetric screening methods, which can also be performed by elderly people and children currently unable to perform standard automated perimetry (SAP). Ideally, these methods should also be easier to administer, such that they may be used outside of a regular clinical environment. We evaluated the suitability of various methodological and analytical approaches for detecting and localizing VFD in glaucoma patients, based on eye movement recordings.Methods: The present study consisted of two experiments. In experiment 1, we collected data from 20 glaucoma patients and 20 age-matched controls, who monocularly viewed 28 1-min video clips while their eyes were being tracked. In experiment 2, we re-analyzed a published dataset, that contained data of 44 glaucoma patients and 32 age-matched controls who had binocularly viewed three longer-duration (3, 5, and 7 min) video clips. For both experiments, we first examined if the two groups differed i...
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2021
In Western societies, many polarized debates extend beyond the area of opinions, having consequen... more In Western societies, many polarized debates extend beyond the area of opinions, having consequences for social structures within society. Such segmentation of society into opinion-based groups may hinder communication, making it difficult to reconcile viewpoints across group boundaries. In three representative samples from Australia and the Netherlands ( N = 1,206), we examine whether perceived polarization predicts the quality (harmony, comfort, and experience of negative emotions) and quantity (avoidance of the issue) of communication with others in the community. We distinguish between perceived opinion differentiation (i.e., the extent to which opinions in society are divided) and perceived structural differentiation (i.e., the extent to which society fissions into subgroups). Results show that although opinion differentiation positively predicts the discussion of societal issues, the belief that these opinions reflect a deeper societal divide predicts negative communication ex...
Journal of Vision, 2020
There is a need for simple and effective ways to screen for visual field defects (VFD). Watching ... more There is a need for simple and effective ways to screen for visual field defects (VFD). Watching a movie is a simple task most humans are familiar with. Therefore we assessed whether it is possible to detect and reconstruct visual field defects based on free viewing eye movements, recorded while watching movie clips. Participants watched 90 movie clips of one minute, with and without simulated visual field defects (sVFD), while their eye movements were tracked. We simulated homonymous hemianopia (HH) (left and right sided) and glaucoma (small nasal arc, large nasal arc, and tunnel vision). We generated fixation density maps of the visual field and trained a linear support vector machine to predict the viewing conditions of each trial of each participant based on these maps. To reconstruct the visual field defect, we computed "viewing priority" maps and maps of differences in fixation density of the visual field of each participant. We were able to classify the simulated visual field condition with more than 85% accuracy. In simulated HH, the viewing priority distribution over the visual field indicated the location of the sVFD in the simulated HH condition. In simulated glaucoma the difference in fixation density to the control condition indicated the location of the sVFD. It is feasible to use natural viewing behavior to screen for and reconstruct (simulated) visual field defects. Movie clip viewing in combination with eye tracking may thus provide an alternative to or supplement standard automated perimetry, in particular in patients who cannot perform the latter technique.
protocols.io, 2018
What type, format and volume of data? Do your chosen formats and software enable sharing and long... more What type, format and volume of data? Do your chosen formats and software enable sharing and long-term access to the data? Are there any existing data that you can reuse? Give a brief description of the data, including any existing data or third-party sources that will be used, in each case noting its content, type and coverage. Outline and justify your choice of format and consider the implications of data format and data volumes in terms of storage, backup and access.
People understand friendships in various ways. In this study, we predicted friendships for 706 Du... more People understand friendships in various ways. In this study, we predicted friendships for 706 Dutch women who reported on 25 relationships. We examined: i) which kind of personal relations were most often identified as friends, ii) to what extent relationship characteristics could predict friendships, and iii) whether this differed with age. People met in school were most likely (>70%), and family members were least likely to be friends (20%). Friendships were most often close relationships with more non-face-to-face contact, whereas meeting in person was less predictive. With advancing age, people reported fewer friends, but effects of relationship characteristics did not differ. Friendships vary much between people, and overlap with other social roles like family and colleague is common.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2018
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International Journal of Digital Curation, 2013
In the spring of 2011, the UK's Digital Curation Centre (DCC) commenced a programme of outreach d... more In the spring of 2011, the UK's Digital Curation Centre (DCC) commenced a programme of outreach designed to assist individual universities in their development of aptitude for managing research data. This paper describes the approaches taken, covering the context in which these institutional engagements have been discharged and examining the aims, methodology and processes employed. It also explores what has worked and why, as well as the pitfalls encountered, including example outcomes and identifiable or predicted impact. Observing how the research data landscape is constantly undergoing change, the paper concludes with an indication of the steps being taken to refit the DCC institutional engagement to the evolving needs of higher education.
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