| 09:15-10:00 |
Arrival and registration – tea and coffee available |
| 10:00-10:10 |
Conference welcome and introduction
Amy Strange, The Francis Crick Institute, Jeremy Cohen, Imperial College London and Lucy Wheeler, Imperial College London
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Plenary session 1 (Wellcome Auditorium 2)
Session chair: Jeremy Cohen
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| 10:10-11:00 |
Keynote: What Remains Without Instructions: The Transfer Service and the Preservation of Obsolete Digital Media
Leontien Talboom,
Cambridge Digital Humanities
Abstract:
Digital preservation is often framed as a technical problem of maintaining files and formats, but in practice it also depends on preserving the knowledge needed to access and interpret obsolete media. This talk explores the work of the Cambridge University Libraries and Archives Transfer Service in recovering data from legacy carriers such as floppy disks, highlighting the practical and often undocumented expertise involved in making old digital objects readable again. It argues that what remains without instructions is not just data at risk of loss, but also the gradual disappearance of the skills, software, and workflows required to recover it.
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| 11:00-11:15 |
UKRI digital research infrastructure, people, and skills
Sophie Janacek
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| 11:15-11:45 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:45-13:00 |
Plenary session 2 (Wellcome Auditorium 2)
Session chair: Maria Broadbridge
| 11:45 - 12:00 |
How many double-deckers does it take to ruin your projects? (abstract)
Rosie Wood, Mosè Giordano, Mahmoud Abdelrazek, Sam Cunliffe, David Pérez-Suárez and Markus Hauru
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| 12:00 - 12:15 |
Collaborative Computational Project for Volume Electron Microscopy (CCP-volumeEM): Connecting People, Tools, and Data Across the Volume EM Community (abstract)
Martin Jones
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| 12:15 - 12:30 |
Bridging the Gap: Why Research Community Managers are the Human Essential in an AI-Driven Landscape (abstract)
Cassandra Gould van Praag, Emma Karoune, Malvika Sharan and Danny Garside
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| 12:30 - 12:35 |
Preliminary results from mapping and evaluating dRTP’s contributions to computing skills and pedagogies in HE (abstract)
Carlos Cámara-Menoyo and Timothy Monteath
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| 12:35 - 12:40 |
The DIRECT Framework (abstract)
Adrian D’Alessandro
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| 12:45-13:00 |
Poster lightning talks
Poster chair: Ilektra Christidi
Each poster presenter gets 2 minutes for a very brief pitch highlighting their poster as we go into the lunch break and poster session... (poster abstracts)
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| 13:00-14:00 |
Lunch and posters
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| 14:00-15:15 |
Parallel track talks - session 1
Research Software Track (Wellcome Auditorium 2)
| Session chair: |
Jost Migenda |
| 14:00 - 14:15 |
Portability of Using C++20 in R Packages (abstract)
Sherman Lo
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| 14:15 - 14:30 |
The Python Array API Standard (abstract)
Patrick J. Roddy
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| 14:30 - 14:45 |
What RSEs should know about supply chain security (abstract)
Mark Woodbridge
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| 14:45 - 15:00 |
Beyond language silos: purely functional package management with Guix (abstract)
Arun Isaac
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| 15:00 - 15:05 |
A DevOps-Inspired Open-Source Platform for Harmonisation, Quality Control, and Analysis in Multi-Site Ultra-Low-Field Neuroimaging (abstract)
Hajer Karoui
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| 15:05 - 15:10 |
How to stop doing web scraping all wrong (abstract)
Giles Greenway
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Research Data Track (Wellcome Auditorium 1)
| Session chair: |
Ellie Sheppard and Madalyn Hardaker |
| 14:00 - 14:20 |
Who Does the Data Work? Roles, Recognition, and Career Pathways in Biomedical Data Science (abstract)
Denise Bianco, Daria Sokolova, Giulia Tomba, Kim Gurwitz, Vera Matser, Catherine Brooksbank and Emma Karoune
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| 14:20 - 14:40 |
FAIRness Starts at the Point of Creation: How to Implement Electronic Lab Notebooks to Support FAIR Practices (abstract)
Samantha Pearman-Kanza
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| 14:40 - 15:00 |
Energy Efficient Climate Science Workflows with PyActiveStorage (abstract)
Varsiha Sothilingam, Bryan N. Lawrence, David Hassell, Valeriu Predoi and Max Norton
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| 15:00 - 15:15 |
Exploring and Evidencing the need for Data Stewardship - Exploring the outcomes of CaSDaRs First Funding Call (abstract)
Louise Saul and Samantha Pearman-Kanza
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Research Computing Infrastructure Track (Seminar Room)
| Session chair: |
Brian Maher |
| 14:00 - 14:20 |
Improving the visibility of computing infrastructure with a mini HPC cluster (abstract)
Eirini Zormpa, Jeremy Cohen, Weronika Filinger, Neil Chue Hong, Laura Moran, Charaka Palansuriya, Anna Roubíčková and Martin Robinson
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| 14:20 - 14:40 |
ACIT Hub: Co-designing training solutions to support robust, reproducible accelerated compute infrastructure (abstract)
Anna Swan and Helen Cooper
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| 14:40 - 15:00 |
YATRET: Yet Another Trusted Research Environment Talk (abstract)
Matt Penn
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| 15:00 - 15:15 |
Cloud-Native Without the Cloud: Infrastructure Enabling Researcher Workflows (abstract)
Piper Fowler-Wright
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| 15:15-15:45 |
Break - refreshments and posters
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| 15:45-16:30 |
Parallel track talks - session 2
Research Software Track (Wellcome Auditorium 2)
| Session chair: |
Adam Witney |
| 15:45 - 16:00 |
CODECHECK: a system for the independent reproduction of results reported in scientific publications (abstract)
Stephen Eglen
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| 16:00 - 16:15 |
Research Software Sharing, Publication, & Distribution Checklists (abstract)
Richard Acton
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| 16:15 - 16:30 |
Automate the Boring Stuff with AI (abstract)
Rebecca Walker and Chris Cheshire
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Research Data and Research Computing Infrastructure Track Session (Wellcome Auditorium 1)
| Session chairs: |
Ellie Sheppard and Brian Maher |
| 15:45 - 16:30 |
Panel discussion featuring Vicki Yorke-Edwards, Michael Bearpark, Madalyn Hardaker and Chris Edsall
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| 16:30-17:00 |
Final plenary session (Wellcome Auditorium 2)
Session chair: Jeremy Cohen
| 16:30 - 16:40 |
UCL Advanced Research Computing Centre and Research Culture
Sam Ahern
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| 16:40-16:50 |
ICICLE, a partnership between Imperial College London, Intel and Lenovo
Emily Lumley
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| 16:50-17:00 |
Closing remarks
Amy Strange and Jeremy Cohen
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| 17:30 |
Post-conference reception |
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