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  • House of Lords debates research data curation and disclosure

    House of Lords debates research data curation and disclosure

    Scrutiny of the Protection of Freedoms Bill brings calls from peers for 'temporary exemption' for data if researchers undertake to deposit in an archive. This is one of many amendments being considered that would bring FOI legislation in the re...

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  • Extending the RDM Benefits Envelope

    Extending the RDM Benefits Envelope

    An opportunity was extended at the MRD Programme Phase 2 launch workshop to brainstorm the benefits and evidence thereof of research data management for, in particular, the institution-level projects. Since REDm-MED is not one of these I found myself assisting my colleagues on the University of Bath’s other MRD project: Research360. Neil Beagrie provided ‘seed [...]

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  • Closing the IMPACT Project blog

    Closing the IMPACT Project blog

    The IMPACT project has now officially finished and been superseded by the Centre of Competence. This blog has now been frozen. Comments have been disabled and we do not intend to publish further posts. We have published the following statistics for future reference. They are intended to inform others about the lifecycle of the blog […]

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  • Discrimination

    Discrimination

    Our, or at least my,  current – immature – thinking on research data management tends toward a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach irrespective of circumstances of the data management case. It is quite clear that there is a great deal of inter-discipline and, within disciplines, inter-project differences in the character of the data and data sets encountered. It seems [...]

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  • REDm-MED at Christmas

    REDm-MED at Christmas

    The REDm-MED Project approaches the Christmas break in good order, I think, with progress having been made in the three main tasks, of developing the requirements specification for the DMP for the University of Bath’s Dept. of Mech. Engineering, getting the development of the RAIDmap tool underway, and the various ‘outreach’ and project management activities. We [...]

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  • Developing institutional data policies: trend for 2012

    Developing institutional data policies: trend for 2012

    The DCC is supporting a number of UK universities with research data management and top of the wishlist for most is a data policy. The EPSRC policy framework is often cited a key driver. We’re also seeing lots of policy development courtesy of th...

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  • Introducing… Catherine Pink, Institutional Data Scientist

    Introducing… Catherine Pink, Institutional Data Scientist

    Our new Institutional Data Scientist, Catherine Pink, started yesterday. She’ll be contributing more to the blog soon, but for now, here’s a short introduction: I’m Catherine Pink and I’m the new Data Scientist for the Research360 project. I have a broad role that will primarily involve acting as an interface with and between the existing support services and [...]

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  • Vacancy: Systems Developer (Research Data Management)

    Vacancy: Systems Developer (Research Data Management)

    We are looking to recruit a Systems Developer to develop an interface between our Virtual Research Environment (Sakai) and a SWORD2-compliant digital repository, as well as to provide general development and support of our research data infrastructure. The post is part-time and fixed-term. For more information and to apply, please see our jobs site: Systems Developer – [...]

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  • Doctoral Training Centres as catalysts for research data management

    Doctoral Training Centres as catalysts for research data management

    As I’ve already mentioned, the focal point for a lot of the pilot work in Research360 is the Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) in Sustainable Chemical Technologies. This presents us with some interesting opportunities and challenges, and is well worth investigating: DTCs (or CDTs depending on the research council) are fast becoming the norm for PhD [...]

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  • DCC Roadshow in Cardiff

    DCC Roadshow in Cardiff

    Snow, sleet, hailstones, rain and sunshine! The Cardiff weather couldn’t make up its mind, but the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) roadshow carried on regardless. Although I have attended various days of the travelling roadshow (Bath and Cambridge) I’ve never actually managed to catch a day one. The opening day is an opportunity to hear an [...]

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