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The LIBER e-Science working group held three workshops at conferences in 2011-2012. Their final report very succinctly summarises the findings of these and gives 10 prioritised recommendations.

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This guide describes the code underlying the RAIDmap Associative Tool. It also describes how it may be imported into an integrated development environment, and exported as an installation executable.

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Ball, A. and Thangarajah, U., 2012. RAIDmap Application Developer Guide. Bath, UK: University of Bath

This document defines a set of metadata elements corresponding to information considered necessary for good data management, most easily provided close to the point of record creation, and unique to a data record, data case or data development process. The set corresponds to a subset of elements drawn from the PREMIS and DataCite metadata schemata. It is provided as a basis for the metadata collection functionality of the RAIDmap Associative Tool.

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Ball, A., 2012. Minimum Mandatory Metadata Set for RAIDmap. Bath, UK: University of Bath

In the course of its work, the REDm-MED Project has used various tools and guidance produced by the DCC, most notably CARDIO and DMP Online, the latter in both its checklist and software forms. The Project team found CARDIO to be promising but in need of further development before being used widely. The process of setting up a DMP Online template was relatively straightforward, but unfortunately there was no opportunity to solicit feedback from researchers on using it in the context of the tool.

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Ball, A. and Darlington, M., 2012. Review of DCC Tools and Guidance. Bath, UK: University of Bath

This guide describes the functionality of the RAIDmap Associative Tool and explains how it may be used to document a research activity, the data records it produces as a result, and the associations between such records.

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Darlington, M., Thangarajah, U. and Ball, A., 2012. RAIDmap Application User Guide. Bath, UK: University of Bath

This department-level Research Data Management Plan is offered as a starting point for engineering departments establishing their own policies and procedures for data management at the project level. It recommends how projects should use data management plans: where they should be stored, how open they should be, expectations for review and revision, and so on. It provides a template for project data management plans. Lastly, it recommends tools that can be used for data management, and additional guidance that may be consulted.

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Darlington, M. and Ball, A., 2012. A Research Data Management Plan for Engineering Research. Bath, UK: University of Bath

This document provides a template for data management plans suitable for use with the DCC's DMP Online tool. It is based on the specification contained within 'A Research Data Management Plan for the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath' for the contents of Project Data Management Plans produced within the Department.

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Ball, A. and Darlington, M., 2012. University of Bath Department of Mechanical Engineering DMP Online Template. Bath, UK: University of Bath

File systems are easier to navigate if they have been organized according to a convention, as it allows the person browsing to infer information about the files and directories at a glance. This document recommends a convention whereby information such as project, document type and lead author are encoded within the filename, and suggests a method for exposing the document title other than through the filename.

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Darlington, M. and Ball, A., 2012. Naming Documents for Better Organization. Bath, UK: University of Bath

The purpose of this Departmental Research Data Management Plan is to support principal investigators, project, data and research managers and researchers and others, such as service providers, in performing data management at the project level. It does this in three ways. First, it specifies how projects should use data management plans: where they should be stored, how open they should be, expectations for review and revision, and so on. Second, it provides a template for project data management plans. Third, it recommends tools that can be used for data management, and additional guidance that may be consulted.

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Darlington, M. and Ball, A., 2012. A Research Data Management Plan for the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath. Bath, UK: University of Bath

This document summarizes the components of the data management infrastructure specified by the REDm-MED project, most notably within its Departmental Research Data Management Plan. These components include guidance documents, locations for their storage and access, templates, software tools and rôles (such as the Institutional Data Manager) fulfilling functional responsibilities. The purpose of the document is to ease the deployment both of the infrastructure at the University of Bath and of similar infrastructures elsewhere.

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Darlington, M. and Ball, A., 2012. Infrastructure Supporting a Research Data Management Plan for the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath. Bath, UK: University of Bath