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  • Sharing is so Nice

    Sharing is so Nice

    Posted on 28 February 2012 by Mansur Darlington | From REDm-MED
    Some quite nice stories are beginning to emerge from the Department of Mechanical Engineering related to the benefits (and to a lesser extent difficulties) of sharing data. This is of interest because non-data-sharing seems to be the current default. Here are a couple from the horse’s mouth. Two data sets, the core of which were in [...]

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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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  • Object stores

    Object stores

    Posted on 20 February 2012 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    Although my involvement in Research360 is at the level where technology and people interact, I’m also doing my best to understand how our infrastructure is developing at a much lower level so that I’m in a position to better advise non-technical stakeholders. Bath University Computing Services (BUCS) are currently in the process of procuring a new [...]

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  • Developing a roadmap for RDM

    Developing a roadmap for RDM

    Posted on 16 February 2012 by sarah.jones | From DCC
    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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  • South-west meetup

    South-west meetup

    Posted on 13 February 2012 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    On Wednesday 1 February, we met up with representatives of three other universities in the south-west area to discuss and find common ground on our JISC Managing Research Data projects. Represented were: Research360, University of Bath data.bris, University of Bristol OpenExeter, University of Exeter Managing Research Data, University of the West of England Each institution has its own unique set [...]

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  • Progress update: February 2012

    Progress update: February 2012

    Posted on 10 February 2012 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    Progress update: February 2012 On Thursday 2 February 2012, we got together for a project team meeting, so leading on from that, here’s a brief progress report: As we’re starting to get a number of requests for help specifically related to research data management, we agreed to set up a queue on RT (Request Tracker, our support [...]

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  • VALA2012: libraries and technology down under

    VALA2012: libraries and technology down under

    Posted on 9 February 2012 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    Liz Lyon gave a keynote speech on Wednesday 8 February 2012, entitled “The Informatics Transform: Re-engineering Libraries for the Data Decade“, at the VALA2012 conference in Melbourne, Australia. The talk focused on the transformations required for libraries to keep up with digital trends, and drew on Liz’s own experience for exemplars, including the University of [...]

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

    Re-skilling for research – observations on an RLUK report

    Posted on 6 February 2012 by graham.pryor | From DCC
    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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  • Scoping Data Management: inflation, inflation!

    Scoping Data Management: inflation, inflation!

    Posted on 2 February 2012 by Mansur Darlington | From REDm-MED
    I recently asked a PI how much data space he thought he and his team of researchers might need over, say, the next two years. Based on his current research he thought perhaps, 1-2 GB per project would be about right on average, although he did have one anomalous project the raw data for which [...]

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  • How can we evaluate data repositories? Pointers from DryadUK

    How can we evaluate data repositories? Pointers from DryadUK

    Posted on 1 February 2012 by angus.whyte | From DCC
    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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