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  • BioMed Central proposes CC0 for published data

    BioMed Central proposes CC0 for published data

    BioMed Central Research Notes has published, in provisional form, a White Paper on the licensing of open access research papers and data. It proposes a model whereby authors publishing in an open access journal agree to license the text of their paper ...

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  • Working with DataCite

    Working with DataCite

    What is DataCite? “You could say that DataCite is to data sets what Cross Ref is to publications” explained DataCite Technical Lead, Ed Zukowski. It’s not a perfect analogy but does give an idea of DataCite’s primary focus: it i...

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  • Sakai Development: Post Six

    Sakai Development: Post Six

    In which I finally am able to import Sakai into the eclipse IDE, the designated development environment. And at the end I am left wondering whether all the work has been worth it – I might have been better off developing with a text editor, old school style. The full post is on my personal blog [...]

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  • Sakai Development: Post Five

    Sakai Development: Post Five

    In which I add LDAP authentication to the test Sakai installation, and sort out a bizarre issue with the Resources tool: a complete lack of the hooks and buttons needed to add content. The full post is on my personal blog here.

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  • 10 recommendations to get started with research data management

    10 recommendations to get started with research data management

    Ten recommendations for libraries to get started with research data management, Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard et al, (July, 2012) This is a breath of fresh air. An EU report that does exactly what it says on the tin - in only 3 pages! The LIBER e-Science...

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  • Librarians, data management and listening dogs

    Librarians, data management and listening dogs

    DCC staff were at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress last week. The conference was vast, welcoming over 4,200 librarians to Helsinki and addressing all manner of library concerns. The programme included a number of sessions relevant to da...

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  • Sakai Development: Post Four

    Sakai Development: Post Four

    In which I finally get the test Sakai installation working, and learn about some apache modules which I have not used before which are needed to work around the problems. The full post is on my personal blog here.

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  • Sakai Development: Post Three

    Sakai Development: Post Three

    In which I work my way through the compilation of Sakai several times, ending up with a limited amount of success and experience a fair amount of frustration. This is where things start to get quite technical. The full post is on my personal blog here....

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  • Research data management training take 2

    Research data management training take 2

    On Thursday 28 June, Cathy and I ran the latest of our postgraduate workshops on research data management. The session was structured similarly to our last workshop, though without the extended hands-on section on data management planning. The loss of this section was down to time pressures (we had an hour less this time). We started by [...]

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  • Demystifying research data

    Demystifying research data

    Earlier this week, I attended a workshop entitled 'Demystifying research data: don't be scared, be prepared', an event that was organised by the JIBS User Group and RLUK (Research Libraries UK), and held at the Brunei Gallery, SO...

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