[Natalie Meyers]

I want to bring to your attention an upcoming Software Preservation
workshop that may be of interest to RDA Data Citation WG members.
The NSF-funded Data and Software Preservation for Open Science (DASPOS,
daspos.org) project is hosting a workshop on *Container Strategies for
Data & Software Preservation that Promote Open Science
*
at
the University of Notre Dame.
This two-day linux container centric workshop will feature keynote
speakers, lightning talks, demonstrations, and hands-on breakouts related
to container strategies for software and data preservation that promote
open science, science reproducibility and re-use.
Participants will have the opportunity to learn about how others are using
Docker and related container tools like ReproZip, Umbrella, SmartContainer,
NDS Dashboard in environments like the National Data Service, Open Science
Framework, government, publisher and institutional repositories. The
workshop organizers are confident that no matter the participants’ level of
expertise with container tools and strategies for preserving software and
computational environments they will learn from other stakeholders, benefit
from the well designed online use cases, and leave the workshop better able
to share their data, software and other digital research objects.
*Workshop Date:* May 19-20, 2016
*Give a lightning talk at the workshop!*
We want everyone to have an opportunity to share their enthusiasm and
inspiration*! The workshop lightning talks provide a great opportunity to
speak about your experiences, opinions or ideas relating to using
containers for preservation in a short talk. They can be used to generate
inspiration, discussion and participation in other sessions at the
workshop, breakout sessions and even just in the coffee breaks.
*Call for participation / Actions*
– Register: Workshop Registration
– Express your interest to present by sending an email to ***@***.***
&
submit your short (maximum 1 page) abstract of your lightning talk
before March 31, 2016. *All accepted lightning talks will be eligible for
travel support
*Location:* The workshop will take place at the University of Notre Dame at
the McKenna Conference Center*.*
*Workshop Format:*
– Keynote talks
– Lightning talks* (See call)
– End-to-end use case demonstrations
– Hands-on containerization breakout sessions
– “Preservation challenge” sessions (Team A will try to reproduce a
computational experiment containerized & preserved by Team B)
*Important Dates:*
– Lightning talk submissions: 31 March 2016 (any time of day, no further
extensions; email submissions to ***@***.***).
– Lighting talk decisions: 8 April 2016
– Travel support requests: 15 April 2016 (email to ***@***.***)
– Decisions on travel support announced: 19 April 2016
– Workshop: 19-20 May 2016, University of Notre Dame, USA.
– Post-workshop report writing (participation is open to all): 30 June
2016
Please contact me if you have any questions .
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*Natalie K. Meyers*
*E-Research Librarian*
*University of Notre Dame*
1136A Hesburgh Library
Notre Dame, IN 46556
*o:* 574-631-1546
*f:* 574-631-6772
*e: ****@***.***

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