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Developing joined up RDM infrastructure for institutions

Monica Duke — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:33:11 +0000

This is a report on Session 4A at the read more

IASSIST, Research Journals and Data Linkages

Marieke Guy — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:58:12 +0000

The future of data publication was a big topic at this year’s IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology) conference. The conference (the 39th to date) entitled Data Innovation: Increasing Accessibility, Visibility and Sustainability was hosted by GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and held in Cologne (Köln), Germany.

Access to Citation Data

Alex Ball — Thu, 30 May 2013 17:04:24 +0000

Back in 2012, Jisc commissioned a study of the costs, benefits and risks associated with collecting and analysing citation data. That study is now nearing completion and will be published very soon. As a precursor to that, on 14 May 2013 I and a group of other interested parties went along to the Jisc offices in London to discuss the findings and their implications.

The study has been conducted by Curtis+Cartwright, and Geoff Curtis was there to present the draft report. It identifies three use cases for analysing citation data:

A conversation with the funders

graham.pryor — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:06:18 +0000

The organisers of DCC’s special event, Funding Research Data Management, which took place on 25^th April at Aston University, can surely claim that the essence of the debate (about what is acceptable, feasible and achievable in the use of research grant funding for the provision of data infrastructure and services) has at long last been laid bare under the light of expert scrutiny.

RDM in the Performing Arts

Marieke Guy — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:42:31 +0000

Disciplinary variations notwithstanding, there is a widespread understanding among scientific researchers about what is meant by ‘research data’, and research funders and institutions have supported and enabled this via authoritative definitions. This is not necessarily the case in the visual and performing arts.

Hands-on RDM with SIM4RDM

Alex Ball — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:57:20 +0000

On 12 April 2013 I attended a workshop organised in Berlin by the SIM4RDM project.

Making Data Count

Alex Ball — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:18:31 +0000

For some time now, the digital curation community has argued that datasets deserve to be considered first class research outputs. Now at last there is an appetite within the academic mainstream to make it happen, but there are still a lot of implications to work through. The importance of a research activity is judged by the impact of its outputs, so one thing we need to work out is how datasets fit into research assessment procedures.

Metadata, metadata, metadata

Monica Duke — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:34:16 +0000

Metadata emerged as the underlying theme in this session on Data Repositories, Portals and Catalogues at the JISC MRD Achievements, Challenges and Recommendations workshop held in Birmingham on 25-26 March 2013. Programme

The sweet smell of sustainability – JISC MRD projects make the business case

angus.whyte — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:05:47 +0000

The MRD Workshop at Aston University 25-6 March heard about the business case advanced by four projects; at Universities of Bristol, Nottingham and Oxford and, with a slightly different take on things, from the Archaeology Data Service.

IGT: The key to NHS data?

jonathan.rans — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:35:05 +0000

On Friday March 8th I attended a packed session of the NHS-HE forum convened to examine the NHS Information Governance Toolkit (IGT) and discuss its application to higher education (HE) institutions.