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TMTOWTDI: Three data repository experiences in UK HE

Monica Duke — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:36:08 +0000

Three data repository experiences at UK Higher Educational institutions: A report on parallel session 2B on data repositories and storage (group 1) at the JISC Managing Research Data Meeting in Nottingham, 24 October 2012.

This session on data repositories and storage considered the repository systems that support storing, depositing and exposing data at three universities. We heard from the University of Hull, the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Lincoln, where repository systems have been set up or extended through funded projects.

JISC workshop takes data repository options further

angus.whyte — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:16:49 +0000

Alternative solutions to depositing data in repositories were the topic of one sessions in the JISC workshop on Components of Institutional Research Data Services, 24-25 October in Nottingham. This was one of the more popular of the eight sessions, so much so that it had to be split in two.

Bringing data into the open repository

angus.whyte — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:23:28 +0000

Research data and how repositories can better cope with it was a hot topic at OR2012 in Edinburgh last week. I believe research data has been rising up the Open Repositories conference agenda for a few years now. At this, my first OR conference, there were two well-attended presentation sessions on “research data management and infrastructure”, plus a couple of other highly relevant sessions; one on digital preservation and another on “non-traditional content”.

How can we evaluate data repositories? Pointers from DryadUK

angus.whyte — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:58:36 +0000

How can researchers, publishers and others interested in a data repository tell if it is any good or not? The Dryad UK project has released a 'Draft Framework for Assessing the Dryad Data Repository'. This was was among the final outputs recently published from Dryad UK, funded last year under the JISC Managing Research Data programme. In this post report author Angus Whyte outlines some of the framework and welcomes comments on how it might be extended and applied to other data repositories.