Blog posts from IRG projects
  • DCC Tools Catalogue

    DCC Tools Catalogue

    Posted on 8 May 2012 by Marieke Guy | From JISC BGDP
    The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has has recently updated their catalogue of tools and services for managing and curating research data. The catalogue is available from http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/external/tools-services This is more than a new look; the catalogue has been overhauled to focus on software and services that directly perform curation and management tasks. It splits these [...]

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  • MRD Hack Days: File backup, sync and versioning, or “The Academic Dropbox”

    MRD Hack Days: File backup, sync and versioning, or “The Academic Dropbox”

    Posted on 4 May 2012 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    This post emerged from discussions at the JISC MRD Hack Days, particularly with Joss Winn of the University of Lincoln’s Centre for Educational Research and Development. The event brought together developers and data management experts for two intensive days to discuss and prototype tools for research data management. Joss has also written a more discursive post [...]

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  • Introducing Simon McLeish, technical developer

    Introducing Simon McLeish, technical developer

    Posted on 1 May 2012 by sjm62 | From Research360
    My name is Simon McLeish and I have just started working on developing the technical specification for the research data repository at the University of Bath to be developed for the Research360 project over the next year, as well as work to integrate SAKAI and SWORD2 for use with the repository. At the moment, my [...]

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  • Reviewed Tools and Services Catalogue

    Reviewed Tools and Services Catalogue

    Posted on 1 May 2012 by Blogs | From DCC
    The digital curation community has been prolific in creating tools and services to address the myriad challenges facing data creators and curators, but it can be difficult to wade through the wealth of options to find the solution that best fits your n...

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  • SPRUCE Mashup Glasgow

    SPRUCE Mashup Glasgow

    Posted on 25 April 2012 by patrick.mccann | From DCC
    The SPRUCE Project held a Mashup event in Glasgow from 16 to 18 April. The event was designed to bring together developers and digital preservation practitioners so that the former could find solutions to the some of the issues bein...

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  • SPRUCE Mashup Glasgow

    SPRUCE Mashup Glasgow

    Posted on 25 April 2012 by patrick.mccann | From DCC
    The SPRUCE Project held a Mashup event in Glasgow from 16 to 18 April. The event was designed to bring together developers and digital preservation practitioners so that the former could find solutions to the some of the issues bein...

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  • Demonstrating RAIDmap

    Demonstrating RAIDmap

    Posted on 20 April 2012 by Alex Ball | From REDm-MED
    On 23 March 2012, Uday Thangarajah and I gave a demonstration of the RAIDmap tool at a JISC workshop entitled ‘Meeting (Disciplinary) Challenges in Research Data Management Planning’. The slides and script I prepared for this demonstration are now available. RAIDmap is a software tool we have been developing that provides a simple and intuitive way [...]

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  • UEL’s perspective: Data management from a standing start

    UEL’s perspective: Data management from a standing start

    Posted on 20 April 2012 by Blogs | From DCC
    First in a series of blog posts featuring institutional experiences of developing policies, implementing strategies and capturing roadmaps. Read more

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  • UEL’s perspective: Data management from a standing start

    UEL’s perspective: Data management from a standing start

    Posted on 20 April 2012 by Blogs | From DCC
    First in a series of blog posts featuring institutional experiences of developing policies, implementing strategies and capturing roadmaps. Read more

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  • Policies for open research

    Policies for open research

    Posted on 18 April 2012 by sarah.jones | From DCC
    I was tweeted some great questions about RDM and open access policies today and thought they warranted more than a 140 character response. Read more

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