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  • Citizen Science Platforms

    Citizen Science Platforms

    Posted on 18 October 2012 by Monica Duke | From Patients Participate
    This post gives a brief overview of a selection of systems that are used to support citizen science or crowd sourcing activities.  The examples are selected to illustrate a range of activities and systems and provide an idea of the functionality suppo...

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  • Getting the message across

    Getting the message across

    Posted on 18 October 2012 by Marieke Guy | From DCC
    Training is one of the key elements in the JISC Managing Research Data Programme. Ensuring that those involved in all stages of the research lifecycle are up to speed and aware of their responsibilities is a big undertaking.read more

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  • Are you really on the map?

    Are you really on the map?

    Posted on 10 October 2012 by graham.pryor | From DCC
    Between 18th July and 18th September 2012, Research Office heads or the PVCs Research (or their equivalent) in one hundred UK institutions in receipt of EPSRC funding, were invited to complete an online DCC survey designed to establish reactions to (an...

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  • Sakai Development: Post Nine

    Sakai Development: Post Nine

    Posted on 10 October 2012 by sjm62 | From Research360
    In which I reach a staging point in my Sakai journey: not the end, but the beginning of the end, at least. The full post is on my personal blog here.

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  • Introducing the partners: AMRC

    Introducing the partners: AMRC

    Posted on 9 October 2012 by Monica Duke | From Patients Participate
    The Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) and our 127 member charities provide a direct link to the broader citizen-patient community. AMRC member charities funded over £1 billion for research in 2009/10 – carried out mostly in the univer...

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  • Sakai Development: Post Eight

    Sakai Development: Post Eight

    Posted on 3 October 2012 by sjm62 | From Research360
    In which I have some more adventures in editing the source code reaching line 6300 of the Resources Action class, and end up on the brink of actually adding something useful to it. The full post is on my personal blog here.

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  • DCC training workshop at iPres 2012

    DCC training workshop at iPres 2012

    Posted on 1 October 2012 by sarah.jones | From DCC
    The DCC ran a workshop in collaboration with several other digital curation stakeholders today. Pushing the Boundaries - excellence in digital curation education and training through collaboration covered a number of themes, including curriculum develo...

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  • Sakai Development: Post Seven

    Sakai Development: Post Seven

    Posted on 24 September 2012 by sjm62 | From Research360
    In which I outline the development task in more detail and start working through the code. After going round in circles trying to figure out exactly what does what, I am finally able to make my first edits. The full post is on my personal blog here.

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  • New resources

    New resources

    Posted on 24 September 2012 by sarah.jones | From DCC
    There have been loads of useful links circulated recently. As an aide-memoire and signpost to others who may have missed them, here's a quick summary. First off there's a US study to demystify the data management requirements of research funder...

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  • Tackling visual arts as research data

    Tackling visual arts as research data

    Posted on 20 September 2012 by Marieke Guy | From DCC
    KAPTUR, a JISC MRD project following on from the Keepit and Kultivate projects, will discover, create and pilot a sectoral model of best practice in the management of research data in the visual arts.read more

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