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Tomorrow is (sadly) my last official day * as a university visitor at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra . I've been here since late June, invited by ANU adjunct and Funnelback chief scientist (and ex-CSIRO ) David Hawking , to visit the Algorithms and Data Research Group , School of Computer Science , College of Engineering and Computer Science . I was installed in a lovely office looking out into the campus, where I've been working on large scale journal visualization, a continuation of the Torngat project . I've been working on a couple of things, including applying Mulan to the multi-label problem of the corpus I am working with, so I can get precision and recall to evaluate this method empirically. My productivity has been hampered by a recurring stomach problem (which appears to be gone this last week: yay!), so I've not progressed as much as I would have wanted to.... :-( At the end of last week I gave a presentation at CSIRO (in the same bui...

I am at the 2010 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL2010) at Surfer's Paradise in Queensland, Australia. Among the many interesting papers are two papers very relevant to those interested in research data issues. [JCDL2011 will be held in Ottawa, Canada June 13-17 2011. I am the general chair for the conference] Digital Libraries for Scientific Data Discovery and Reuse: From Vision to Practical Reality Jillian Wallis, Matthew Mayernik, Christine Borgman and Alberto Pepe Abstract. Science and technology research is becoming not only more distributed and collaborative, but more highly instrumented. Digital libraries provide a means to capture, manage, and access the data deluge that results from these research enterprises. We have conducted research on data practices and participated in developing data management services for the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing since its founding in 2002 as a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center. ...