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The KRDS Benefit Analysis Toolkit: Development and Application

Neil Beagrie — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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This paper provides an overview of the KRDS Benefit Analysis Toolkit. The Toolkit has been developed to assist curation activities by assessing the benefits associated with the long-term preservation of research data. It builds on the outputs of the Keeping Research Data Safe (KRDS) research projects and consists of two tools: the KRDS Benefits Framework, and the Value-chain and Benefits Impact tool. Each tool consists of a more detailed guide and worksheet(s). Both tools have drawn on partner case studies and previous work on benefits and impact for digital curation and preservation. This experience has provided a series of common examples of generic benefits that are employed in both tools for users to modify or add to as required.

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Beagrie, N., Duke, M., Patel, M., Lyon, L., Hardman, C., Kalra, D., Lavoie, B. and Woollard, M., 2012. The KRDS Benefit Analysis Toolkit: Development and Application. International Journal of Digital Curation, 7 (2), pp. 64-67

The KRDS Benefit Analysis Toolkit: Development and Application

Neil Beagrie — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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IMPACT final conference 2011

Marieke Guy — Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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The IMPACT Project (Improving Access to Text) [1] was funded by the European Commission back in 2007 to look at significantly advancing access to historical text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) methods. As the project reaches its conclusion, one of its key objectives is sharing project outputs. The final conference was a 2-day event held over 24 - 25 October 2011 at the British Library in London where it demonstrated findings, showcased tools and presented related research in the field of OCR and language technology. Marieke Guy. "IMPACT Final Conference 2011". March 2012, Ariadne Issue 68 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue68/impact-rpt

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Guy, M., 2012. IMPACT final conference 2011. Ariadne, 68

IMPACT final conference 2011

Marieke Guy — Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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Guy, M., 2012. IMPACT final conference 2011. Ariadne, 68

Visualizing research data records for their better management

Alex Ball — Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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As academia in general, and research funders in particular, place ever greater importance on data as an output of research, so the value of good research data management practices becomes ever more apparent. In response to this, the Innovative Design and Manufacturing Research Centre (IdMRC) at the University of Bath, UK, with funding from the JISC, ran a project to draw up a data management planning regime. In carrying out this task, the ERIM (Engineering Research Information Management) Project devised a visual method of mapping out the data records produced in the course of research, along with the associations between them. This method, called Research Activity Information Development (RAID) Modelling, is based on the Unified Modelling Language (UML) for portability. It is offered to the wider research community as an intuitive way for researchers both to keep track of their own data and to communicate this understanding to others who may wish to validate the findings or re-use the data.

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Ball, A., Darlington, M., Howard, T., McMahon, C. and Culley, S., 2012. Visualizing research data records for their better management. Journal of Digital Information, 13 (1)

Visualizing research data records for their better management

Alex Ball — Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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Ball, A., Darlington, M., Howard, T., McMahon, C. and Culley, S., 2012. Visualizing research data records for their better management. Journal of Digital Information, 13 (1)

10 cheap and easy ways to amplify your event

Marieke Guy — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

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In 2007 Lorcan Dempsey coined the phrase 'the amplified conference'. He used the term to refer to how event outputs (such as talks and presentations) were being amplified 'through a variety of network tools and collateral communications'. The term 'amplified event' is now fairly well recognised within the academic and cultural heritage sectors and is used as an umbrella expression for many practices and technologies that allow not only those external to an event to participate but also those who are actually there to get more out of the event. Brian Kelly's blog post Escaping the Constraints of Space and Time] explores the idea that such approaches can save "talks from the walled garden of the place and time at which they were given".

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Guy, M., 2011. 10 cheap and easy ways to amplify your event. Ariadne, 66

Lightweight product lifecycle information management for small enterprises

Lian Ding — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

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In an increasingly competitive and global market, small enterprises can benefit just as much from Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) as larger enterprises. However, the software currently available to support PLM is aimed at larger enterprises and does not entirely suit the more flexible business processes and heterogeneous systems environment of smaller enterprises. We argue that some of the most important benefits of PLM may be achieved by small enterprises using the combination of a full-featured CAD system with lightweight visualization formats and a system of overlaid annotations that may be applied to a model regardless of its format. We outline a proof-of-concept implementation of these ideas and indicate where further work is needed.

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Ding, L., Ball, A., Patel, M., Mullineux, G. and Matthews, J., 2011. Lightweight product lifecycle information management for small enterprises. International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management (IJPLM), 5 (1), pp. 21-36

10 cheap and easy ways to amplify your event

Marieke Guy — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

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Guy, M., 2011. 10 cheap and easy ways to amplify your event. Ariadne, 66

Institutional Repository interaction with research users: a review of current practice

Rosemary Russell — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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The article reviews research that has examined scholarly users and institutional repository interaction within the wider scholarly communications environment. The focus is on research users as repository content creators and as eventual content users. The text explores how institutional motivations for implementing repositories match against user needs, and how consultation with users might be conducted. Some examples of innovative tailored services resulting from user needs analysis are described. The benefits of early consultation are highlighted, as well as the importance of tailoring advocacy to the needs of specific scholarly subject contexts. Understanding and engaging users mean that the benefits of repositories are more likely to be more fully realized. The article then sets out some of the current and future challenges for repository development. This includes briefly looking at opportunities for institutional and subject repositories to work together in complementary ways and consideration of research data requirements. Finally, the key area of integration is considered, first, in terms of embedding repositories in research practice, so that they become part of the researcher's daily work environment; and second, repository integration with other institutional information systems is explored to enable the sharing of repository content across other services.

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Russell, R. and Day, M., 2010. Institutional Repository interaction with research users: a review of current practice. New Review of Academic Librarianship, 16 (S1), pp. 116-131