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Version control is the management of changes to documents, computer programs, and other collections of information. Changes are usually identified by a number named the "revision number". Each revision is associated with a timestamp and the person making the change. Revisions can be compared, restored, and with some types of files, merged.

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Watch talks by Erin McKiernan, Simon Deakin, Laura James and Hannah Hope  

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It’s been over five years since the term “alt-metrics” was coined and the metrics landscape has radically altered in that time. Research producers and funders, from large academic institutions to global funders to tiny non-profits and institutes, are using these new metrics in ways Altmetric hadn’t even conceived of when they launched their institutional platform two years ago.

Research data is something that everyone works with, regardless of discipline. From huge data sets to high resolution photographs of artefacts, managing lots of stuff in a way that means you can not only find things but also make sure nothing gets lost accidentally is key to the success of any research project.

Are you a researcher applying for grants? Or perhaps a librarian or someone supporting researchers with their grant applications? If so, this workshop is for you.

During this event you will learn everything you need to know about data management plans:

• What are they
• Why are they suddenly required as part of grant applications
• What to include in data management plans?
• Tools to help writing data management plans

This sessions is going to be interactive and there are joining requirements:

You may have heard of Creative Commons but what are they, how can you take advantage of them and how can you use them to protect and share your research? In this session we will explore Creative Commons licencing, what you can and cannot do with the various options, as well as how to be a good internet citizen when online.
The session with be themed around STEM disciplines but all other disciplines are welcome to attend.

You may have heard of Creative Commons but what are they, how can you take advantage of them and how can you use them to protect and share your research? In this session we will explore Creative Commons licencing, what you can and cannot do with the various options, as well as how to be a good internet citizen when online.
The session with be themed around STEM disciplines but all other disciplines are welcome to attend.

Doing research involves reading a lot of other people's work and trying to figure out how it applies to what you're doing. But how do you manage all of this literature in a way that you can not only keep it organised, but also easily turn what you've read into a handy bibliography, or list of references?
In this session we will look at managing your citations with Zotero. We will explore how this tool allows you to keep on top of what you read online as well as how it can make referencing-induced headaches a thing of the past.

When publishing your research, you often need to measure how far your research has gone or how many people have read it. But how can you tell the difference between bibliometrics or altmetrics? And what about impact or the h-index?
In this session we will show you how to make metrics work for you and how to make sense of the various options that are out there for you to take advantage of.
The session with be themed around STEM disciplines but all other disciplines are welcome to attend.

Big data and data science are topics of the moment. Among the raft of conferences on these subjects few have a clear focus on the underpinning theoretical methodologies to maximise the information that can be extracted in the presence of inherent uncertainties, sampling bias, data streams, data linkage and all of the other specific features of so-called big data applications. This conference will showcase work by young and established researchers advancing the state-of-the-art on a rigorous mathematical basis.