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  • Making the business case

    Making the business case

    data.bris is the University of Bristol’s new Research Data Service. It emerges from a successful business case developed by the Jisc-funded data.bris pilot which, for the past 17 months, has been part of the MRD Programme.read more

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  • Defining institutional data storage requirements

    Defining institutional data storage requirements

    Institutions developing infrastructure in support of research data management are engaging with a whole range of issues, both cultural and technical. One that stands out as a clear priority is that of research data storage, both for “live” ...

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  • IDCC13 and the Research Data Alliance

    IDCC13 and the Research Data Alliance

    I'm currently on my way to Gothenburg for the first plenary meeting of the Research Data Alliance, or RDA as I'll refer to it from here on. It seems an appropriate point to fulfil a promise I made a month ago in my overview of IDCC13. I promise...

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  • Research data matters in the visual arts

    Research data matters in the visual arts

    Last week (6 March 2013) saw the end-of-project conference (Research data matters in the visual arts) for the Jisc-funded KAPTUR project. The KAPTUR project, led by the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS), has been investigating the current state of resear...

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  • CKAN for research data management

    CKAN for research data management

    CKAN, developed by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF), is an open source data management system that makes data accessible, providing tools to publish, share find and use data. It has been used to provide a number of government data portals, including...

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  • IDCC13: on reflection

    IDCC13: on reflection

    IDCC13 and its associated workshops took place in Amsterdam a few weeks ago - the first time we've run the International Digital Curation Conference in continental Europe. The increased attendance and enthusiastic involvement of many new colleagues...

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  • End of I2S2 Project

    End of I2S2 Project

    The I2S2 Project was successfully completed in August 2011, consequently this blog is no longer being maintained.  For project outputs please refer to the project website at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/I2S2/. Manjula Patel

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  • IDCC13: Panel on confidentiality and open access to research data

    IDCC13: Panel on confidentiality and open access to research data

    In his talk at IDCC, Ewan Birney, Associate Director of the EMBL European Informatics Institute, described how the field of genomics has paved the path to large-scale data sharing. The field now publicly confronts the issues arising from breaches to pr...

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  • RDM within the University of St Andrews IT support

    RDM within the University of St Andrews IT support

    During the JISCMRD workshop in October 2012, I gave a presentation on the outcomes of the DCC institutional engagement project at the University of St Andrews and how that project has influenced the development of research data management (RDM) support...

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  • IDCC13 Data Publication: generating trust around data sharing

    IDCC13 Data Publication: generating trust around data sharing

    Publishing data is hardly a new concept, for example the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data is in its 42nd volume. But reference datasets are of course an exception to the rule; maps of the known disciplinary terrain rather than the stuff ...

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