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  • Demonstrating RAIDmap

    Demonstrating RAIDmap

    On 23 March 2012, Uday Thangarajah and I gave a demonstration of the RAIDmap tool at a JISC workshop entitled ‘Meeting (Disciplinary) Challenges in Research Data Management Planning’. The slides and script I prepared for this demonstration are now available. RAIDmap is a software tool we have been developing that provides a simple and intuitive way [...]

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  • UEL’s perspective: Data management from a standing start

    UEL’s perspective: Data management from a standing start

    First in a series of blog posts featuring institutional experiences of developing policies, implementing strategies and capturing roadmaps. Read more

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  • Policies for open research

    Policies for open research

    I was tweeted some great questions about RDM and open access policies today and thought they warranted more than a 140 character response. Read more

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  • ANDS & the DCC

    ANDS & the DCC

    After giving a presentation on DMP Online at the Future Perfect conference, Martin and I visited ANDS staff in the Canberra and Mebourne offices.  We had some great discussions, sharing common ground and learning from each other's lessons. Rea...

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  • Is the Future Perfect?

    Is the Future Perfect?

    The overriding message from the Future Perfect conference was that the future is not perfect!  There are lots of digital preservation challenges that we're still grapling with, but on a more optimistic note, we *are* making headway. Read more

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  • A journey shared – on the road to research data management.

    A journey shared – on the road to research data management.

    The workshop on developing institutional data policies held in mid-March helped institutions to come together to discuss different approaches and learn from each other. This article describes some of the lessons emerging from the workshop, complementin...

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  • Coming soon: New homepage

    Coming soon: New homepage

    I'm Magdalena Getler, curation services officer at the DCC. I'm pleased to announce that we have today launched the new DCC homepage in Beta mode. The Beta period will last for about two weeks before going live. Read more

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  • Future plans for DMP Online

    Future plans for DMP Online

    Feedback on future developments for DMP Online gathered during the JISCMRD Workshop: Meeting (Disciplinary) Challenges in Research Data Management Planning on the 23rd March. Read more

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  • Turning roadmaps to action

    Turning roadmaps to action

    Many UK Higher Education Institutions are setting out their 'roadmap' of actions to support research data management, to meet a deadline set by funding body EPSRC. Prompted by a workshop organised by DCC and JISC with the RoaDMaP project at Lee...

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  • Postgraduate DMP template first draft

    Postgraduate DMP template first draft

    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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