It's not easy being green. Did you know that more than 20 eco-unfriendly processing steps go into a traditional pair of pre-washed jeans? During the last decade, many denim manufacturers have begun changing the environmental hazards of their processing by recycling their wastes and greening their production steps. With STN®, we will investigate some of the new green trends in denim manufacturing.
eSciDoc Days 2011
Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) and FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure held the 4th eSciDoc Days on October 26 and 27, 2011 at Tagungsstaette Harnack House in Berlin, Germany.
The two-day conference provided extensive information about collaborative eResearch environments and related challenges, e. g. the sustainable management of a growing amount of data throughout the research process and the provision of a publishing environment for research results together with research data. Experts with different background in scholarly information management discussed the latest developments in building digital information infrastructures.
Keynote speaker at this year‘s eSciDoc Days was Simon Hodson, Programme Manager at JISC (UK) for Managing Research Data. Addressing challenges, opportunities and benefits, he shared his expertise in promoting and supporting good data management and data sharing in higher education and research.