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  • Signing Off

    Signing Off

    Posted on 4 June 2013 by Monica Duke | From SageCite
    The one-year funded period for SageCite came to an end in July 2011.  It took a further few weeks to tie up some loose ends, and follow up on some of our dissemination activities.  As a belated sign off on the project, this post sums up the outputs o...

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  • Access to Citation Data

    Access to Citation Data

    Posted on 30 May 2013 by Alex Ball | From DCC
    Back in 2012, Jisc commissioned a study of the costs, benefits and risks associated with collecting and analysing citation data. That study is now nearing completion and will be published very soon. As a precursor to that, on 14 May 2013 I and a group ...

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  • Concluding post

    Concluding post

    Posted on 29 May 2013 by Monica Duke | From Patients Participate
    As part of the process of wrapping up projects, this post sums up some of the outputs of the Patients Participate! project which ran during 2011-2012, and was funded by JISC.  Further information about the project and partners can be found in the link...

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  • A conversation with the funders

    A conversation with the funders

    Posted on 30 April 2013 by graham.pryor | From DCC
    The organisers of DCC’s special event, Funding Research Data Management, which took place on 25th April at Aston University, can surely claim that the essence of the debate (about what is acceptable, feasible and achievable in the use of research...

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  • RDM in the Performing Arts

    RDM in the Performing Arts

    Posted on 24 April 2013 by Marieke Guy | From DCC
    Disciplinary variations notwithstanding, there is a widespread understanding among scientific researchers about what is meant by ‘research data’, and research funders and institutions have supported and enabled this via authoritative defini...

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  • End of REDm-MED Project

    End of REDm-MED Project

    Posted on 18 April 2013 by Alex Ball | From REDm-MED
    As you may have gathered from an earlier post, the REDm-MED project successfully concluded in June 2012. As a result, the time has come to close the blog; it will still be around for reference but there won’t be any new posts or comments. You can still see a full list of project outputs on [...]

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  • RAIDmap documentation on SourceForge

    RAIDmap documentation on SourceForge

    Posted on 18 April 2013 by Alex Ball | From REDm-MED
    The RAIDmap Application User Guide and RAIDmap Application Developer Guide have been converted and can now be read on the RAIDmap wiki on SourceForge. In the long term, this will make it easier to update the documentation when changes are made to the software. If anyone is interested in developing RAIDmap further, please just put [...]

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  • Hands-on RDM with SIM4RDM

    Hands-on RDM with SIM4RDM

    Posted on 18 April 2013 by Alex Ball | From DCC
    On 12 April 2013 I attended a workshop organised in Berlin by the SIM4RDM project.read more

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  • Making Data Count

    Making Data Count

    Posted on 17 April 2013 by Alex Ball | From DCC
    For some time now, the digital curation community has argued that datasets deserve to be considered first class research outputs. Now at last there is an appetite within the academic mainstream to make it happen, but there are still a lot of implicatio...

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  • Metadata, metadata, metadata

    Metadata, metadata, metadata

    Posted on 15 April 2013 by Monica Duke | From DCC
    Metadata emerged as the underlying theme in this session on Data Repositories, Portals and Catalogues at the JISC MRD Achievements, Challenges and Recommendations workshop held in Birmingham on 25-26 March 2013. Programmeread more

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