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  • Anna Shadbolt on Australian research data management

    Anna Shadbolt on Australian research data management

    Posted on 21 June 2012 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    Last Friday our colleagues in UKOLN hosted a seminar from Anna Shadbolt, Manager of Information Management Services (part of the library) at the University of Melbourne. She gave us an overview of e-infrastructure and data management in Australia, including particular data management projects at Melbourne, and finished off with a mention of the DMVitals project from [...]

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  • The University of Bath Roadmap for EPSRC

    The University of Bath Roadmap for EPSRC

    Posted on 8 June 2012 by Catherine Pink | From Research360
    The University of Bath has spent the past few months working on their response to the EPSRC’s letter to Vice-Chancellors. In this letter, the EPSRC set out their nine expectations for how institutions in receipt of their funding should manage their research data. Responsibility for responding to the EPSRC’s expectations – the roadmap setting out how [...]

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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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  • Postgraduate DMP template first draft

    Postgraduate DMP template first draft

    Posted on 19 March 2012 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    A lot of people have asked for this to be made available, so here it is: Data Management Plan for PGRs v0.2. It’s also available as a PDF. This template is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. We welcome comments and suggestions for improvements, and we’d love to hear from anyone who finds it [...]

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  • Gaps in Guidelines

    Gaps in Guidelines

    Posted on 16 March 2012 by Catherine Pink | From Research360
    Gap analyses often take the form of a formal survey such as the Data Asset Framework or CARDIO. However, there are more informal ways of identifying gaps in an institution’s readiness for managing its research data. As we have been working on our new RDM policy, we have referred to a number of related policies, [...]

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  • Hitachi Content Platform object store arrives

    Hitachi Content Platform object store arrives

    Posted on 12 March 2012 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    Just a little bit of geekery really. The object store that I mentioned the other week has now arrived! The cabinet on the left in the photo is almost entirely disks. We have one for each data centre, but installing them into our existing infrastructure is a non-trivial task, so it’ll be a while before they’re [...]

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  • Benefiting from Research360: Who, when and how?

    Benefiting from Research360: Who, when and how?

    Posted on 8 March 2012 by Catherine Pink | From Research360
    Thinking about this blog post has provided a welcome opportunity to reflect on what we’re hoping to achieve during the Research360 project. It’s a broad project covering many aspects of research data management (RDM) and generating numerous specific outputs that, one would hope, will all benefit researchers, their collaborators, the institution and the wider RDM [...]

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  • Research Data Management 101 — Data Management Planning

    Research Data Management 101 — Data Management Planning

    Posted on 2 March 2012 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    A few weeks ago, we got together some of our students from the Doctoral Training Centre in Sustainable Chemical Technologies to run a pilot training session on data management. As part of that, we asked them to trial a selection of data management plan (DMP) templates. We split the students into smaller groups, and assigned each [...]

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  • Research Data Management 101 — Intro & definitions

    Research Data Management 101 — Intro & definitions

    Posted on 24 February 2012 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    On Wednesday 15 February, we ran our first workshop/focus group with PhD students from the Doctoral Training Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies. This is the first of a series of posts summarising the outcomes of that event. Overview We had three aims for this session: To introduce the participants to data management planning and have them start writing [...]

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