Irish firm in alliance with Indian IT giant Mahindra

Indian IT giant Tech Mahindra has forged a partnership with AIMS Software, a subsidiary of Dublin-based Quest Computing that will see the Irish tech firms software deployed across South East Asia.

News link on Silicon Republic

How to review an article...

The following review criteria are typically applied to articles submitted for conferences.

• Is the topic relevant to the theme?
• Are the paper's objectives clear and well-described?
• Is the paper written clearly?
• Will the paper will draw an audience?
• Is the paper well organized, does it flow logically?
• If it includes a literature review is the literature appropriate and relevant to the theme?
• If it includes a methodology or research method is it appropriate?
• Are the analyses appropriate to the data presented for analysis?
• Does the evidence given support the author's arguments (if relevant)?
• Does the paper make a useful contribution or has it the potential to make a contribution?

Alternatively you might respond to the following general prompts:

• Identify the paper’s strengths
• Identify the paper’s weaknesses
• Provide suggestions for improving the paper
• Detail major issues (if any)
• Detail minor issues (if any)
• What is missing?

SILS Lecture: Framing Sustainability in the Digital Data Environment

You are invited to a lecture by Dr. Kalpana Shankar titled:

Framing Sustainability in the Digital Data Environment: the Social Science Data Archives Case

This is the third of the SILS lectures for 2014, providing an insight into the research questions of our staff throughout the School.

When: 13 February, 11.30am
Where: Room 107, in the School of Information and Library Studies - beside the James Joyce Library, Belfield.

All welcome!

Join UCD NetSoc for interesting events

Second semester has started. Why not consider joining a student society?

Next Wednesday the 5th of February Netsoc will be hosting a talk with the Co-Founder of DemonWare, Sean Blanchfield. If anybody has played the likes of Call of Duty you should that Demonware have played a huge part in their development.

There will be free Pizza and Beverages too! Here is a link to the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1438902203006988/

Message from UCD Library Training - Jan-Feb 2014

UCD Library regularly offers training courses on diverse topics. This semester we offer our usual EndNote and EndNote Web courses, along with research and information-related sessions. In the next month we offer the following:

Stay Alert! Keeping Current with Research - Tues, 4th February  details

Data Caring: Why Manage Your Research Data? - Wed, 12th February: details

Making a Map with Google Mapping Products - Wed, 19th February: details

Protecting Your Research Data - Wed, 19th February: details

Ethical Issues in Data Management - Thurs, 20th February: details

For our entire schedule of courses being held this semester, please go to http://www.ucd.ie/library/supporting_you/courses_diary/allclasses.

There's no need to register for these courses. Just show up on the day.

We will continue to keep you informed of new courses being offered.

Regards,
UCD Library Training

An Essential research tool - EndNote lessons!

The school has arranged a one-hour session on EndNote for our iBusiness students:

This lecture-based session will take place on Tuesday 21 January from 13.00-14.00 in C302.

And a second session to facilitate our PT students, also on Tuesday 21 January, from 17.00-18.00 in C301.

Start shaping them while they're at university

Poland has grown to become one of Europe's largest outsourcing destinations, but the country's outsourcing providers are beginning to realise they can no longer compete on cost alone. In fact, if cost was the main concern then clients would have outsourced their work to India a decade ago. Local knowledge is still important, so how do you get the tech staff you need to supply the local outsourcing industry? (link to the article on ZDNet)