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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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  • Joint statement on data citation from STM publishers and DataCite

    Joint statement on data citation from STM publishers and DataCite

    Posted on 20 June 2012 by kevin.ashley | From DCC
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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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  • Deliverables behaving just like Buses; arriving all at once!

    Deliverables behaving just like Buses; arriving all at once!

    Posted on 8 June 2012 by Mansur Darlington | From REDm-MED
    As promised by my esteemed colleague Alex Ball, here are some more REDm-MED deliverables, arriving not quite in numerical order. As Alex said, Deliverable 3, A Research Data Management Plan for Engineering Research, is a generic departmental data management plan based on Deliverable 2. And then we have the [...]

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  • Deploy along with REDm-MED

    Deploy along with REDm-MED

    Posted on 1 June 2012 by Alex Ball | From REDm-MED
    The REDm-MED Project has released its third (or is it fourth?) deliverable: a summary of the infrastructure components needed to support data management in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath.

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  • 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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