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  • Navigating the potholes

    Navigating the potholes

    As part of our series of blog posts on developing RDM roadmaps, this week we're reflecting on what a roadmap looks like and where HEIs have most work to do. Read more

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  • The essential data roadmap

    The essential data roadmap

    Last April the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) wrote to university vice chancellors explaining their Policy Framework on Research Data. This framework set out EPSRC’s principles and expectations concerning how the insti...

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  • Developing a roadmap for RDM

    Developing a roadmap for RDM

    We trialled a new session at the Loughborough roadshow on developing data policy and services. This ended with an excerise on producing an RDM roadmap, as the EPSRC requirement to do this by May 2012 is uppermost on many people's minds. Read more

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  • Re-skilling for research – observations on an RLUK report

    Re-skilling for research – observations on an RLUK report

    The Preface to this new RLUK report opens by declaring how it “is clear that as the nature of research within our institutions changes, so must the role of the library in supporting research”.Read more

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  • How can we evaluate data repositories? Pointers from DryadUK

    How can we evaluate data repositories? Pointers from DryadUK

    How can researchers, publishers and others interested in a data repository tell if it is any good or not? The Dryad UK project has released a 'Draft Framework for Assessing the Dryad Data Repository'. This was was among the final outputs recent...

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  • House of Lords debates research data curation and disclosure

    House of Lords debates research data curation and disclosure

    Scrutiny of the Protection of Freedoms Bill brings calls from peers for 'temporary exemption' for data if researchers undertake to deposit in an archive. This is one of many amendments being considered that would bring FOI legislation in the re...

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  • Developing institutional data policies: trend for 2012

    Developing institutional data policies: trend for 2012

    The DCC is supporting a number of UK universities with research data management and top of the wishlist for most is a data policy. The EPSRC policy framework is often cited a key driver. We’re also seeing lots of policy development courtesy of th...

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  • IDCC11: Advancing research and technology to safeguard our digital future

    IDCC11: Advancing research and technology to safeguard our digital future

    The closing keynote at the #idcc11 was presented by Natasa Milic-Frayling from Microsoft Research Cambridge (MSRC), who spoke about advancing research and technology to safeguard our digital future. Read more

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  • IDCC11 Session A3: Formats

    IDCC11 Session A3: Formats

    This session at IDCC 2011 might have been titled “Everything to Fear but Fear Itself”. As preservation specialists know, when it comes to file format issues just about anything that can go wrong probably will in time. The three presentation...

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  • IDCC11: Open data driving scholarly communications in 2020

    IDCC11: Open data driving scholarly communications in 2020

    Professor Philip E Bourne from the Department of Pharmacology at University of California San Diego and Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Computational Biology gave a remote presentation to the conference via Skype to outline what he sees as the future for data ...

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