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  • The value of a one-to-one

    The value of a one-to-one

    Marieke and I were in Northampton yesterday as part of the DCC institutional engagements. A few months back Miggie suggested we kick off our one-to-one support by running a preliminary 'research data clinic' where we invite researchers to come ...

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  • JISC workshop takes data repository options further

    JISC workshop takes data repository options further

    Alternative solutions to depositing data in repositories were the topic of one sessions in the JISC workshop on Components of Institutional Research Data Services, 24-25 October in Nottingham. This was one of the more popular of the eight sessions, so ...

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  • IDCC13 Preview: Kevin Ashley

    IDCC13 Preview: Kevin Ashley

    The 8th International Digital Curation Conference is just around the corner and we are anticipating great discussions about data science when our international audience gather in Amsterdam in January 2013. In the first of our series of preview posts, D...

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  • JISCMRD: Training and Guidance

    JISCMRD: Training and Guidance

    The JISC Managing Research Data (JISCMRD) Components of Institutional Research Data Services workshop session on training and guidance held last Thursday was so popular it ended up being split into two separate sessions.read more

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  • Getting the message across

    Getting the message across

    Training is one of the key elements in the JISC Managing Research Data Programme. Ensuring that those involved in all stages of the research lifecycle are up to speed and aware of their responsibilities is a big undertaking.read more

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  • Are you really on the map?

    Are you really on the map?

    Between 18th July and 18th September 2012, Research Office heads or the PVCs Research (or their equivalent) in one hundred UK institutions in receipt of EPSRC funding, were invited to complete an online DCC survey designed to establish reactions to (an...

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  • DCC training workshop at iPres 2012

    DCC training workshop at iPres 2012

    The DCC ran a workshop in collaboration with several other digital curation stakeholders today. Pushing the Boundaries - excellence in digital curation education and training through collaboration covered a number of themes, including curriculum develo...

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  • New resources

    New resources

    There have been loads of useful links circulated recently. As an aide-memoire and signpost to others who may have missed them, here's a quick summary. First off there's a US study to demystify the data management requirements of research funder...

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  • Tackling visual arts as research data

    Tackling visual arts as research data

    KAPTUR, a JISC MRD project following on from the Keepit and Kultivate projects, will discover, create and pilot a sectoral model of best practice in the management of research data in the visual arts.read more

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  • BioMed Central proposes CC0 for published data

    BioMed Central proposes CC0 for published data

    BioMed Central Research Notes has published, in provisional form, a White Paper on the licensing of open access research papers and data. It proposes a model whereby authors publishing in an open access journal agree to license the text of their paper ...

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