Announcements

2018 Resource Allocation Competition (RAC) Details and Info Session

Date: Wednesday, October 11 ( 9am-10.30am PDT)  Location: 112A, 2386 East Mall, Vancouver, BC ( Gerald McGavin Building) // Online: Register to Attend ( connection instructions will be emailed to all RSVPs)  Compute Canada is now accepting applications for the annual Resource…

Open Scholarship Day and Open Science Framework (OSF)

Date: Tuesday, September 29th, 2017 (9am-4pm) Location: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Lillooet Room 301  “Open scholarship, which encompasses open access, open data, open educational resources, and all other forms of openness in the scholarly and research environment, is…

ARC - SBC DRAGEN Collaboration

The SBC (and The Pharm Sci Seq Centre which preceded it) has, for the past 3 years, provided client-first, personalized sequencing services to UBC researchers, as well as their collaborators across Canada and Internationally. We recently completed sequencing several hundred exomes and in 2016 will…

Digital Storytelling

  Digital Storytelling using Twine February 6, 2017 1:30pm-4:30pm SFU Vancouver (Harbour Centre, 1520) Registration: http://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/dh/31927 Whether you use Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, or Wordpress, how you share your stories is just as important as what you…

Call for Speakers - Fall 2016 Pacific Northwest Data Curators (PNWDC) Meet-up

This year, the PNWDC meet-up will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia on Thursday, November 10th at Simon Fraser University's Vancouver campus. As has been the case in the past, we hope to organise a fantastic day of programming with invited guests, lighting talks, formal…

Compute Canada Is Launching an Exciting New Visualization Challenge This Fall - Visualize This.

Participants will visualize an Earth Sciences dataset covering the world's oceans. The dataset will be available for download from October 1-31, with submissions due by midnight Eastern time on October 31. Participants from all science fields are encouraged to enter. Submissions will be…

New Digging into Data Challenge Announced

ARC Adds Data Security and Privacy Support

UBC researchers with advanced research computing projects can now access consultation, advice, training and risk assessment relating to data security and privacy issues. Data security and privacy requirements can sometimes be a formidable barrier for researchers. Projects involving protected…