stfc: relevant content on this site

The Science and Technology Facilities Council is a UK government body that carries out civil research in science and engineering, and funds UK research in areas including particle physics, nuclear physics, space science and astronomy (both ground-based and space-based). (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Science and Technology Facilities Council)

Note: This page displays most recently updated content first. You can use the RSS link (bottom left of this page) to receive alerts as content is added or updated.

ORCID Outreach Event at CERN

22 September 2011 - 10:23am — Ben O'Steen

Program

10:00 Welcome and what’s new – Howard Ratner, ORCID Chair (Slides [PPTX 2.55Mb])

Talk discussed:

Key quote “ORCID will work to support the creation of a permanent, clear and unambiguous record of scholarly communication by enabling reliable attribution of authors and contributors”

Re-statement of the 10 ORCID principles

Various demographics and participant statistics

Researcher ID Task and Finish Group

20 June 2011 - 3:42pm — Talat Chaudhri

The first meeting of the Researcher Identifiers Task and Finish Group was highly successful and productive because it kept a tight focus on developing an achievable, clearly articulated body of work and developing a process and timescale for the series of meetings that will inform this process and the commissioning and delivery of the reports that the discussions will continue to inform, round until January 2012.