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  • A Departmental Data Management Plan

    A Departmental Data Management Plan

    The REDm-MED Project has produced its second deliverable: A Research Data Management Plan for the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath. This document begins the work of satisfying the Requirements Specification that formed the Project’s first deliverable. The plan has two main sections. The first explains how to use data management plans at the project level: [...]

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  • Gaps in Guidelines

    Gaps in Guidelines

    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

    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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  • A Partnership Approach to Promoting Information Literacy for Higher Education Researchers

    A Partnership Approach to Promoting Information Literacy for Higher Education Researchers

      Stéphane Goldstein, Research Information Network, has authored an article for LIBER Quarterly which summarizes the collaborative approaches fostered by the RIN Working Group on Information Handling and the DaMSSI project. The D...

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  • Benefiting from Research360: Who, when and how?

    Benefiting from Research360: Who, when and how?

    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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  • 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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  • Launch Workshop for DataFlow and ViDaaS

    Launch Workshop for DataFlow and ViDaaS

    Mark Thorley, data management co-ordinator for NERC set the tone for the day when he explained that “Data management is too important to leave to the data managers, it needs to be an important part of research“. The launch event, hald at the Saïd Business school, University of Oxford, on Friday 2nd March 2012 for [...]

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  • Requirements for Data Management Planning

    Requirements for Data Management Planning

    The REDm-MED Project has produced its first deliverable: the Research Data Management Plan Requirements Specification for the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath. The meat of the document is a table that lists a series of requirements for research data management, and for each one provides the rationale for the requirement, the rôle (principal investigator, researcher, [...]

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  • Research Data Management 101 — Data Management Planning

    Research Data Management 101 — Data Management Planning

    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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  • 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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